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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.		Margaret Dilks Janet Rawlings (and Elizabeth and Victor Alexander)[a greetings card]Manuscript: postcard
1800-1849[a long anecdote about how Hogg found his correspondent Janet Stuart's book in an Edinburgh bookshop and had to pay 7/6 for a 'pamphlet' which the bookseller argued was '...James Hogg Janet Stuart'Ode to Dr Thomas Percy'Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'By leave of the Colonial Office I have obtained copies of a MS journal, never published or edited, kept by Jas Hastie, the Civil Agent of Governor Farquhar at the court ...S.P. Oliver Jas (James) HastieJournalManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated conversation, Sir; for it cannot be but one or othe...Samuel Johnson Jason de Nores[edition of Horace with commentary]Print: Book
1900-1945'The book [Existence afer Death Implied by Science][...] as a mere piece of writing may be described as being breathless itself and taking the reader's breath away, not...Joseph Conrad Jasper B. HuntExistence after Death Implied by SciencePrint: Book
1900-1945'He did not mention that as a prisoner he himself had written an autobiography, of which H. N. Brailsford was to comment in the "New Statesman" the following May: "This b...Henry Noel Brailsford Jawaharlal NehruTowards FreedomPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in general good; but that the Journal throughout was too morb...Alfred Tennyson Jean AicardpoemsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Jean anon.[tragedies]Print: Book
1800-1849'There is a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first edition I am to have 60 guineas - the same sum for eve...Thomas Carlyle Jean AubuissonTraite de geognoisePrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. The...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas PrestonJean BodinMethodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionemPrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. The...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas PrestonJean BodinRepublicPrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published s...Edward Morgan Forster Jean BrullerLe Silence de la MerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dear Little Crow, I duly received your Munich Letter, and your Proofsheet Package, on two successive Wednesdays; and had reason to approve your activity and sagacity in ...Thomas Carlyle Jean CarlylePackage of Proofsheets Manuscript: Proofsheets
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 11 July, 1797: 'I thank you for Chapelain. I read his poem with the hope of finding something & would gladly have reversed the sentence...Robert Southey Jean ChapelainLa Pucelle ou la France Délivrée Print: Book
'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of punishment, he mentions that of Madame Lapouchin, in Ru...Samuel Johnson Jean Chappe d'Auteroche Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'George Gordon Lord Byron Jean ChardinunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 November 1906: 'I was reading La Bruyere today with the irritation against [John Maynard] Keynes [following letter from Strachey] a...Leonard Woolf Jean de la Bruyere Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both devotional and 'gallant' books, and the heart's ability...Edward Morgan Forster Jean de la Bruyere'Du Coeur'Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. but I am told the best account of the Maid [of Orleans...Robert Southey Jean de SerresHistoire de France Print: Book
1700-1799'Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other. I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that worthy author Dumont, who has written with equal ign...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Jean DumontA New Voyage to the LevantPrint: Book


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