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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volume of Modern Painters, published Jan 15, 1856] from ...Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters IIIPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butterfly. "I am going to tell you." This is familiar - as...John Ruskin Ellen HeatonTalesManuscript: Unpublished short tales
1850-1899"I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat together with Romer in the furthest corner enjoying liter...Leslie Stephen Oliver Wendell Holmes Print: Book
1850-1899'Before this walk we had service in chapel, in this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a...Leslie Stephen The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899"Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a...Leslie Stephen [a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law]Print: Book
1850-1899'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a...Leslie Stephen [a list in Latin of benefactors]Unknown
1850-1899'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a...Leslie Stephen the Te DeumUnknown
1850-1899"Do you know that I have just read in a book that my grandfather James Stephen invented the orders in council - which produced the American war of 1812 - wh. would have d...Leslie Stephen  Print: Book
1850-1899"I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it may wake me up - 5 PM. 5.45 I have done it! both pip...Leslie Stephen Christie's FaithPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read is Dixon's New America. I should like to know what yo...Leslie Stephen W Hepworth DixonNew AmericaPrint: Book
1850-1899?Talking of books, you will perhaps be in the way of seeing a volume of Essays on Reform just published. You may find there some remarks by one you know on American exper...Leslie Stephen [Essays on Reform]Print: Book
1850-1899"You say you have been reading some French novels lately."Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. [Some French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899"From your account of the absence of newspapers - on wh. I congratulate you sincerely - you may possibly have heard that the lords [sic] have given in about the Irish chu...Leslie Stephen NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899"You say you have been reading some French novels lately. I am much given to that amusement though I never read de Musset - by the way. I don't quite agree with yr praise...Leslie Stephen [Some French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything satisfactory about it. It leaves an impression on my mi...Margaret Oliphant George EliotFelix Holt the RadicalPrint: Book
1850-1899'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offering, not even by a publisher in his own name a [itali...Margaret Oliphant [Advertisement of works by Lamartine]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am alone in thinking so, of if the opinion is general, b...Margaret Oliphant The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'.Margaret Oliphant BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as I read. I don't suppose my powers are equal to her...Margaret Oliphant Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ago, yet was published only the other day - for whom...Margaret Oliphant SwinburneThrenodyPrint: Newspaper


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