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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises...Elizabeth Missing Sewell JoyceScientific DialoguesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The Scots Magazine", which was begun at Edinburgh in the ...James Boswell [n/a]Scot's Magazine, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex. from the Perth entry 'At a small village calld [sic...Francis Wemyss Mostyn John ArmstrongScotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Sco...Print: Book
1800-1849Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on specific local journeys e.g. Cupar to Perth, dated '1...Agnes Halkerston James DuncanScotch itinerary, containing the roads through Sco...Print: Book
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
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 after the end of the text is the ms note 'Scotch - Eve...John Drummond Erskine James BeattieScoticisms arranged in alphabetical orderPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still r...James Hogg Scotish ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the last No of the Scottish Review there is a very long and exquisite review of the [italics] Wake [end italics]. It is a good article, said to be written by the edit...James Hogg Scotish Review [sic]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-dispos...George Crabbe Scotish Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
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'What with slumber, sandwiches and a copy of the Scotsman secured by the canny guard of our train from one proceeding in the contrary direction—the trains were appa...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton ScotsmanPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Madame de C[-] praised Miss Porter's "Scottish Chiefs", and said, it quite [italics] monted [end italics] her imagination about Scotch persons and Scotland. Had she know...Madame de [C-] Jane PorterScottish Chiefs, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a review of Lauder?s "Scottish Rivers" for the "Academy" which I think you will like; I should not have done it just now, but I was in the humour ? and I ...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Dick LauderScottish RiversPrint: Book
'The Scottish Songs and Ballads, by the same collector, were a highly acceptable present to mel for which pray accept my best thanks. A work of that kind was certainly n...Thomas Carlyle Robert ChambersScottish Songs and BalladsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature" to find out what he had to say by way of comment on...William Soutar T.F. HendersonScottish Vernacular LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 25th December. ?Scrambles among the Alps? (Whymper) Trying to get the proper atmosphere in a snow-less Christmas. Certainly, if any book could give it, it ...Gerald Moore Edward WhymperScrambles among the AlpsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wrote and read till lunch. Merry lunch, we 3 after which I read Whymper's book and account of the 1st ascension of the Ecrins. Prince Louis of Orleans passed with Faure ...Gertrude Bell Edward WhymperScrambles among the Alps in the years 1860-18691Print: Book
1900-1945'Dined on soup and chicken at 5. Read Whymper's book. Cold and mist all round. Decide on an easy day tomorrow as I rather feel the effects of the first day's gymnastics. ...Gertrude Bell Edward WhymperScrambles among the Alps in the years 1860-69Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francis WranghamScrapsPrint: Book


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