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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Gray James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...Mr Gray James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or listen to my reading it, save Grieve, who assured me it w...James Hogg James Hogg'The Queen's Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I allude to my old friend, and your acquaintance, the Ettrick Shepherd (for I will not mention him by the unpoetical name of Mr James Hogg) who is now, you will perceive...Walter Scott James Hogg[ballads]Unknown
1800-1849'It so happened that you were the very first man in England that testified approbation of my rude genius after the publication of the Mountain Bard, which you did to Mr S...Robert Surtees James HoggMountain Bard, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am not a little proud of the approbation you have been pleased to bestow upon a mountain Bard'.Robert Surtees James HoggMountain Bard, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Many of my friends are of the same opinion with you at least with regard to the tales of the Spy. Mr Walr. Scott says in a letter "If I may judge from my own feelings an...Walter Scott James Hogg[Tales published in the Spy]Print: Serial / periodical
'I had a note from Mr Jeffery [sic] on the very day after [Hogg's The Pilgrims of the Sun] was published who is not going to review it till he get another to join with it...Francis Jeffrey James HoggPilgrims of the Sun, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excellent indeed I see that mine was quite an imperfect thi...James Hogg James Hogg'Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'To my utter mortification and dissappointment I have this day received a letter from my Bookseller refusing my new work on his usual terms of publishing with me. For wha...George Boyd James HoggThree Perils of Man, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Mrs Hughes insists on the Confessions of a Sinner being republished with my name as she say it is the best story of that frightful kind that ever was written'.Mrs Hughes James HoggPrivate Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sin...Print: Book
1800-1849'My two articles in your work has [sic] been very much praised in this country. Prof. Wilson said in a very large public company that "The Cameronian's Tale" was "not onl...John Wilson James Hogg'Cameronian Preacher's Tale, The'Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marvellous Doctor is quite ruined for though previously ...James Hogg James HoggShepherd's Calendar, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Hogg is enclosing his 'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston'] 'No body ever saw it but Dr Moir (Delta) who read it and will recognize it at first sight but as it is likely ...David Macbeth Moir James Hogg'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston, The'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[George Goldie] earnestly requested to see my MS. I gave it to him with reluctance, being predetermined to have nothing to do with him. He had not, however, well looked ...George Goldie James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. C.M.G. transcribes, under title 'The Ettrick Shepherd, Queen Hynde' poem beginning 'As when, in ages long agone,...C.M.G. [anon] James HoggQueen HyndePrint: Book
1800-1849[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:] 'It is not from affected hypocrisy that I comme...Branwell Bronte James Hogg Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defectiv...James Hogg James HookPercy MalloryPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Very extensive reading notes from the sixth edition of James Howell's Epistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, dome...Edward Pordage James HowellEpistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, domestic and ...Print: Book
1600-1699'Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book, of great antiquity, of some of the customs of the Navy about 100 years since, which he did lend us to read and d...Samuel Pepys James Humphrey[MS Collections]Manuscript: Unknown


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