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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 31st March 1942. S. A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. [...] 4. The...Howard Smith Henry Marriage WallisFlorence through Aged EyesUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue, 10.2.41 A. B. Dilks in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
4. The subject ...		Howard Smith Henry Marriage Wallis[An Account of the Blizzard of 1881]Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Howard Smith Henry Marriage WallisMistakes of Miss ManistyUnknown
1900-1945'In 1937 she was having "a heavenly time" reading Montherlant, and writing a piece on him for the "New Statesman".'Elizabeth Bowen Henry Millon de Montherlant[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Thank goodness I have nearly finished [Stanley's] ''Darkest Africa'' and it must be the most tiresome book in the world, so confused and diffuse, with immense long conve...Emma Darwin Henry Morton StanleyIn Darkest Africa: Or the Quest, Rescue, and Retre...Print: Book
1900-1945'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded ...		Desmond Malone Henry Morton StanleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Henry Morton StanleyAutobiography of Sir Henry Morton StanleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 3rd November. ?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).' Gerald Moore Henry N. BrailsfordWar of Steel and GoldPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge"Life and Writings of Hesiod" Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson ColeridgeSix Months in the West Indies in 1825Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson ColeridgeNotes on the Reform BillPrint: Book
1800-1849'You have probably seen Henry’s book on Homer. It is wonderfully clever, does him much credit. I thoroughly sympathize, (hang the word it’s always intruding) with his a...Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson ColeridgeIntroductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Po...Print: Book
1800-1849‘Mr. Parry has not yet received the Number of the Quarterly containing the Review of my book - but I got a sight of it the other day at Mrs. [Louise] Claude’s. I am, of...Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge[Review of Hartley Coleridge's Lives of Distinguis...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘Here, Hal, you see the influence you possess as a Tremensian; no one, not even Bingley, would have thought [of?] continuing the work had it not been for your panegyric...Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge[Review of Hartley Coleridge's Lives of Distinguis...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in English on page 5 only.Vernon Lee Henry Noel BrailsfordA League of NationsPrint: Book
1900-1945Notes on flyleaf and marginalia in English in pencil throughoutVernon Lee Henry Noel BrailsfordThe war of steel and gold: a study of the armed pe...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Peter BroughamA Speech on the Present State of the Law of the Co...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 July 1835: 'I have been reading [...] Lord Brougham's Natural Theology, -- and have shaken my head over it [...] It seems t...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Peter Brougham, Lord BroughamA Discourse upon Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Lord Aberdeen to John Wilson Croker, 21 February 1851: 'In reading Lord Holland's book, which I did very cursorily, I was more struck by its dulness than by any other ...Lord Aberdeen Henry Richard Lord HollandForeign ReminiscencesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ...Percy Wall Henry Rider Haggard[African stories]Print: Book


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