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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better than I should. But, though late, I will say thank yo...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellDemocracy and other addressesPrint: Book
1850-1899"I read with satisfaction Lowell's poem wh. you sent me. The only fault I find with him is that he occasionally lets his criticism get mixed up in his poetry, but it is t...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellAgassizPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I go off tomorrow to Cumberland where I shall climb the British Mt Blanc & forget for a short time that there are such things as books to be written. I take 2 or 3 to re...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellPictures from AppledorePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 November 1893: "The two beautiful volumes of dear J[ames] R[ussell] L[owell] constitute a gift for the substantial grace of which ...Henry James James Russell LowellLetters of James Russell LowellPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 March 1842: 'I beg you at last to receive my very earnest thanks for the volume of graceful poetry which I received fro...Elizabeth Barrett James Russell LowellA Year's LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 July 1844, thanking him for copy of his Poems (1844): 'Your "Legend of Brittany" is full of beautiful touches [...] The...Elizabeth Barrett James Russell LowellPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I was so entirely delighted with that book, and should ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Russell LowellFireside TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French, als...Emma Darwin James Russell LowellLiterary EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Charles E. Stansfield James Russell LowellThe Courtin’Unknown
1900-1945'Finished Abdominal Injuries.'Albert Ruskin Cook James Rutherford MorisonAbdominal InjuriesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
Surgical Diagnosis – Martin
Tropical Diseases – Stitt
Abdominal Injuries – Morison & R.
Household ...		Albert Ruskin Cook James Rutherford MorisonAbdominal InjuriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'it is very eloquent & I wish the Tories would promote him'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth James Shergold BooneOn the Need of Christianity to CitiesPrint: Book
1800-1849?In May 1820 Sheridan Knowles produced ?Virginius?. The extraordinary success of that play naturally excited Maturin?s curiosity, and he was impatient to read it. ? When ...Charles Robert Maturin James Sheridan KnowlesVirginiusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe James Somerville SomervilleMemorie of the Somervilles being a history of the...Manuscript: MS book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Florence De Quincey James T. Fields"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent Engl...Print: Book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Thomas De Quincey James T. Fields"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent Engl...Print: Book
1800-1849'It being the Saturday previous to the annual meeting at the SS Library I was oblig[e]d to return, rather unwillingly, the "Life of Macklin" without having finished the v...Joseph Hunter James Thomas KirkmanMemoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin EsqPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Kirkman's "Life of Macklin"...'Thomas Green James Thomas KirkmanMemoirs of the life of Charles MacklinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Many thanks for your letter and the instalment of Forrester which accompanied it, and which I read with amusement and pleasure.'Robert Louis Stevenson James Walter FerrierForresterManuscript: Letter
1600-1699'Up, and all morning at the office << where the Duke of York's long letter was read, to their great trouble and their suspecting me to have been the writer of it>>'Samuel Pepys James, Duke of York[letter]Manuscript: Letter


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