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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. Stansfield who introduced the discussion; by Howard R...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on Henri Bergson]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith'Etaples & the Air raids'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on Bunyan's life]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed. By Mr Burrow on "a Second Hand Book" which threw a...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on Boswell]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The Minutes of last meeting were read & agreed'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow read a short paper of H.M. Wallis on some points in ...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on "Rates and taxes"]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'After supper the Secretary read the Minutes of the last Meeting'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
[...]
8. After coffee we were faced with the Herculean task of answering a G...		Members of the XII Books ClubHoward Smith and A. B. Dilks [A general knowledge quiz paper]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
[...]
8. After coffee we were faced with the Herculean task of answering a G...		Bruce Dilks Howard Smith and Bruce Dilks Official answers to a general knowledge quiz paperManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...] 		Muriel Stevens Hsieh Ping-ying Autobiography of a Chinese girl: a genuine autobio...Print: Book
1900-1945 I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'. The copy which you kindly gave me got lost—I don’t know how, but I obtained another one. . . . Of course the play is not ‘nice’ readin...Arnold Bennett Hubert GriffithTunnel TrenchPrint: Book
1900-1945'Warmest thanks for the vol and for the inscription. Oh my dear how good how profoundly appealing all this is — this little selection.'Joseph Conrad Hubert WellingtonWilliam RothensteinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Perfectly fine and calm again. Father read us the finished article [on Trade Unions] to our great admiration. Then we did Italian and I read Sicilian history and a littl...Gertrude Bell Hugh Bellunknown Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Spent the morning reading Father's Iron and Steel address and watching the camp being pitched and correcting my German [see additional information] proofs. After lunch w...Gertrude Bell Hugh BellPresidential AddressPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'filled with profound reverence...' 'blair vii p.375' and 'since the time that heaven began...' 'blair's ser vii p.26'Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Hugh BlairSermonsUnknown
1700-1799[Mary Wollstonecraft] 'told Everina that she had been reading Hugh Blair's "Letters on Rhetoric" and found them "an intellectual feast".'Mary Wollstonecraft Hugh BlairLetters on RhetoricPrint: Book
1800-1849'At the same time [as undertaking studies in Italian], I went on studying Blair's Rhetoric [...] and inclining mightily to every kind of book or process which could impro...Harriet Martineau Hugh BlairRhetoricPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons, Sherlock on Death, Watts' world to come, Rollin's "...John Cole Hugh Blair[unknown]Print: Book


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