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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Thursday, 29 May 1828: 'I have amused myself to-day with reading Lockhart's Life of Burns which is very well written -- in fact an admirable thing. He has judicious[ly...Walter Scott LockhartLife of BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 31 May 1828: 'I have finishd Napier's War in the Peninsula. It is written in the spirit of a Liberal but the narrative is distinct and clear and I should sup...Walter Scott Colonel W. F. P. NapierHistory of War in the Peninsula (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 1 June 1828: 'We reachd Carlisle at seven o' clock and were housed for the night. My books being exhausted I lighted on an odd volume of the Gentleman's Magazi...Walter Scott The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c must surely be pictures from the Life. Becker says Ok...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleLetter dated 6th Feb, MunichManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Tuesday, 3 June 1828: 'I smoked a segar, slept away an hour and read Mure of Auchendrayne's trial and thus ended the day.'Walter Scott Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Es...Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 4 June 1828: 'Started [for Edinburgh] at half past four and arrived at home if we must call it so at nine o'clock in the evening. I employd my leisure in th...Walter Scott Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Es...Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 23 January 1829: 'Mr. Bell sends me a spec[i]ment [sic] of a Historical novel but he goes not the way to write it. He is too general and not sufficient[ly] ...Walter Scott Bell'specimen of a historical novel'Unknown
1800-1849Saturday, 31 January 1829: 'Lookd over Cumnor Hall by Mr. Usher Tighe of Oxford.'Walter Scott H. U. TigheHistorical Account of Cumnor ... illustrative of t...Print: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 10 February 1829: 'I read over Henry's History of Henry VI and Edward IV. He is but a stupid historian after all.'Walter Scott The Revd. Dr. R. HenryHistory of Great Britain; from the invasion of Jul...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dear Little Crow, I duly received your Munich Letter, and your Proofsheet Package, on two successive Wednesdays; and had reason to approve your activity and sagacity in ...Thomas Carlyle Jean CarlylePackage of Proofsheets Manuscript: Proofsheets
1800-1849Sunday, 15 February 1829: 'I wrought [i.e. worked at writing] to day but not much -- rather dawdled and took to reading Chambers' Beauties of Scotland which would be a...Walter Scott Robert ChambersPicture of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose yourself, my beloved Wife, and try to feel that the...Thomas Carlyle Jane Welsh CarlyleMessage about Aunt's deathManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Monday. 16 February 1829: 'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some anatomical investigations, which containd a maskd ba...Sir William Hamilton Sir William Hamilton'On the size of the brain and the proportion of it...Unknown
1800-1849Friday, 20 February 1829: 'I glanced over some romances metrical publishd by Hartshorne several of which have not seen the light. They are considerably curious but I w...Walter Scott The Revd. C. H. HartshorneAncient Metrical TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 24 February 1829: 'Went to breakfast with Mr. Drummond Hay, where we [Scott and daughter Anne, with his niece Anne] again met Colonel and Mrs. Blair with Thom...Mrs Blair  Unknown
1800-1849Saturday, 28 February 1829: 'Read part of a curious work calld Memoirs of Vidocque, a fellow who was at the head of Bonaparte's police. It is a picaresque tale, in oth...Walter Scott Memoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Now hating to deal with ladies when they are in an unreasonable humour I have got the goodhumoured Man of Feeling to find out the lady's mind and I take on myself the ta...Walter Scott Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Colonel R. told me that the European government had discoverd an ingenious mode of diminishing the number of burnings of widows...This is the reverse of our system of in...Walter Scott T.R. MalthusPrinciple of Population
1800-1849Sunday, 1 March 1829: 'I labourd heard [i.e. 'hard'?] the whole day and between hands refreshd myself with Vidocque's Memoirs.'Walter Scott VidocqueMemoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete ...Print: Book
1800-1849Monday, 2 March 1829: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club and went to the Society in the evening. There was a paper read by Mr. Bauld engineer upon the Subject of the min... Bauldpaper on mining-compass designUnknown


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