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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1600-1699	'This morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trices answer to my bill in Chancery from Mr Smallwood, which I am glad to see, though afeared it will do me hurt.'	Samuel Pepys	T Trice	[answer to Pepys's bill]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not exactly perceive what on earth they have been making...	Joseph Conrad	R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham	Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in Seville	Print: Book, Pamphlet, see additional comments
	1900-1945	'This morning I have been reading Matthew Arnold, for my Anthology, in an easy chair in the sun. This afternoon I shall do some gardening. I have a garden-bed, under my w...	Walter D'Arcy Cresswell	Matthew Arnold	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	Deucalion	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de Roma	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning I read till 11 about Byzantine MSS which I'm going to see at the Bibliothèque Nationale; then I went shopping with the Stanleys and bought a charming little...	Gertrude Bell	unknown		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, which is at present stealing into what no...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning I sat in the back garden roasting myself in the sun and reading Fiske Kimball's Rococo book.'	James Lees-Milne	Fiske Kimball	The Creation of the Rococo	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This morning I stayed in and read some most illuminating articles on Sufyism. There's a lot to know, but I guess I'll know some of it before I've done.'	Gertrude Bell	unknown unknown	unknown	Print: Serial / periodical, probably a periodical
	1700-1799	'This morning Kitty came in for us to read the Testament together, which I enjoyed, I read my favourite chapter the 15th of Corinthians to them. Oh [underline] how [end u...	Elizabeth Gurney	[n/a]	[New] Testament	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning on opening my eyes I saw the noble vol [on Keats] delicately deposited by my side, while I slept, by Jessie's instructions (I live en vieux garçon, in the s...	Joseph Conrad	Sidney Colvin	John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Crit...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This morning on reading the Ovens & Murray Advertiser with the usual ... which that not over bright piecemeal Organ general(ly) induces I was surprised into emotion by t...	John Buckley Castieau	[n/a]	Ovens & Murray Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'This morning the King's proclamacion against drinking, swearing and debauchery was read to our ships' companies in the fleet; and indeed it gave great satisfaction to al...	Samuel Pepys	[King] [Charles II]	A proclamation against debauched and profane perso...	Print: Broadsheet
	1700-1799	'This morning we had from the Library the Maid of Arragon, a Tale by Mrs. Cowley, ? & Mrs. Thrale began reading it aloud, ? & the first thing was a [ital]poetical address...	Hester Thrale	Hannah Cowley	The Maid of Arragon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This morning we have read and talked — it's very wet so we haven't been out. I have been reading Mr Morley's "Walpole" which Sir Lewis [?Louis] Mallet says is supr...	Gertrude Bell	John Morley	Walpole	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—"Exton Manor" by Archibald Marshall and "Justice" by Galsworthy, which I have...	Douglas Herbert Bell	Archibald Marshall	Exton Manor	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning we made for Bécourt Wood. In a sand-bag shelter in the wood I found two novels—"Exton Manor" by Archibald Marshall and "Justice" by Galsworthy, which I have...	Douglas Herbert Bell	John Galsworthy	Justice: A Tragedy in Four Acts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's correspondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the "D[aily]C[hronicle]" was very reserved.'	Joseph Conrad	Reginald Perceval Gibbon	article published in "Daily Chronicle"	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'This morning, reading "Lady of Glynne".'	John Ruskin	Julia Cecilia Stretton	Lady of Glynne	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning, [...] I went to the Bibliothèque Nationale. [Saloman] Reinach [editor of the "Revue Archéologique"] had given me a letter to one of the directors and I was...	Gertrude Bell	unknown		Manuscript: Unknown

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