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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have read "The First Fleet Family" with interest tempered by disappointment.' Thereafter follow two pages of largely negative criticism.Joseph Conrad George Lewis (Louis) Becke (and Walter Jeffrey)A First Fleet FamilyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I had this morning a charming surprise in the shape of the "Spoils of Poynton" sent me by H. James with a very characteristic and friendly inscription on the flyleaf. I ...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe Spoils of PoyntonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of that incarnate devil Maclise one of the wickedest inca...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin[Notices on Titian and Daniel Maclise]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I've just finished reading "Liza of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is another question. I at any rate have nothing to say e...Joseph Conrad W. Somerset MaughamLiza of LambethPrint: Book
1850-1899'I delayed sending you my acknowledgement for the September issue [of Blackwood's Magazine] [...]The appreciation of Mrs Oliphant's work is just in the right note. It is ...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'What do you think of the "Gadfly"? I wrote what I thought to P. [presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined gallantly. But it comes to this, if his point of vi...Joseph Conrad E.(Ethel) L.(Lilian) VoynichThe GadflyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thanks for the copy of the November number [of Blackwood;'s Magazine][...] I turned to "Tennyson" with eagerness.' Hence follow several line of discussion on this revi...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" than...Joseph Conrad Humphry JamesPaddy's Woman and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R. Bridges is a poet. I'm damned if he ain't! There's more poesy in one page of "Shorter Poems" th...Joseph Conrad Robert BridgesShorter PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopped 2 days now The Years [novel in progress]:& feel t...Virginia Stephen William CowperunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My poet writes good stuff; it is slack still and unequal, but I think some of it capital.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyunknownUnknown
1850-1899'Read the "Badge" It won't hurt you --or only very little. Crane-ibn-Crane el Yankee is all right. The man sees the outside of many things and the inside of some.'Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of CouragePrint: Book
1850-1899'But my great excitement was reading your stories. Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve....Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneA Man and Some OthersPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. ...Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneThe Open BoatPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean to finish it. What I have lost and gained is odd. A...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonA Country DanceManuscript: Earlier draft of one of his stories.
1850-1899'I send back the MS tonight.The chapters are all as they should be. The last line excellent. Good luck to the book.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyJocelynManuscript: Unknown, probably a typed MS
1850-1899'Yesterday I finished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Graham's wife Gabriela.] Ca m'a laissé une profonde impression de tristesse [...] ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The "Impenitent Thief" has been read more than once. I've read it several times alone and I've read it aloud to my wife. Every word has found a home.' Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamThe Impenitent ThiefPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Plato and am now labouring in Aristotle's Ethics" . . ....John Buchan PlatounknownPrint: Book, scholarly edition
1850-1899'In the papers this morning there was a melancholy account of the suicide of a man named Lennon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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