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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I had a treat in the shape of a number of the "Singapore Free Press" 2 and a half columns about "Mr Conrad at home and abroad". extremely laudatory but in fact telling m...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordArticle in Singapore Free PressPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I received the book only three hours ago--and it is only too short! I've read it twice.[...]. Many thanks. I've lived for a few hours in your pages.Of the sketches I've ...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordIn a Corner of AsiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to your sketch (for it is that) in last "B'wood", it has pleased me immensely. The simplicity of treatment is effective.'Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordFather RouelletPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'As to "Bushwhacking" you know I prize it above anything that may be written in acknowledgement of a presentation volume.[...]The book I consider as the best expression o...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordBushwhacking and Other SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before but I preferred to read the book first. I've read it twice with casts back here and there. The book is remarkable- and that it will be...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordA Free Lance of TodayPrint: Book
1900-1945'What I set out to say was that all these delays, vexing as they were, gave me the time to read "The Downfall of the Gods" three times from end to end. As to pages and ps...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordThe Downfall of the GodsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your good letter arrived yesterday--a great pleasure and a source of serious misgivings. I have had your latest volume and surely I acknowledged it! [...] You mean "Mono...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordMalayan MonochromesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had letter from Sir Hugh Clifford. He sends me six copies of his address to the Legislative Council.[...] The report is very interesting.' Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordAddress to the Legislative Council of NigeriaPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Hugh ConwayCalled BackPrint: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona...John Allaway Hugh Dalton Print: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

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Reginald H. Robson Hugh de SelincourtThe Cricket MatchPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hugh FarmerA Dissertation on MiraclesPrint: Book
1700-1799Nothing Remarkable happend the Morning Noon nor evening of that Day, only Read the play called the Scool for Wifes.John Yeoman Hugh KellyThe School for WivesUnknown
1800-1849'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False Delicacy an English Comedy translated into French.'Claire Clairmont Hugh KellyFalse Delicacy, ou La Fausse DelicatessePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I made me readie, and then went to work and hard Mr Rhides read of Latimers sarmons and some other thinges'Richard Rhodes Hugh LatimerFruteful SermonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'About 3.30, C.M.G. came striding in, resplendent in full Highland rig-out ... He had a number of MSS with him and read part of his "Red Scotland", which sounded quite co...Christopher Murray Grieve Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.]Red ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Re-read MacDiarmid's "Scot's Unbound" - some fine lyrics; but the "thoct" in the lengthy poems confounds the poetry; why must Grieve so often use his verse as a shop-win...William Soutar Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.]Scots UnboundPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Hugh McHugh (pseud.)John HenryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Hugh Miller's 'First Impressions of England and its people'. His argument at the conclusion of the seventeenth chapter is excellent; he concludes ...Eliza Ellis Hugh MillerFirst Impressions of England and its PeoplePrint: Book
1800-18497/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess...Amelia Opie Hugh TwyfordThe Grounds of Holy LifePrint: Book


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