√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'I never saw the book of Mr Laings ('Pastoral Visits') which you speak of; and I should much like to see it, if you have a copy to spare.' Lady Kay Shuttleworth Mr Laing Pastoral Visits Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been so ungrateful in never thanking you for your last - and for that [italics] beautiful] end italics] noble paper of yours on the Advantages of Defeat, - a pape... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot Norton [paper on 'The Advantages of Defeat] Unknown 1850-1899 '['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as every one in England had, the "Cleopatra chapter", and... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel Hawthorne Marble Faun, The Print : Book1850-1899 '(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be well-educated young lady who knew nothing about Mad... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne [Letters] Print : Book1850-1899 'all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more valuable;) and then I thought I would read it first: an... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Hamilton Aide Carr of Carrlyon Print : Book1850-1899 'I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I could have told him more, or set him to rights; but th... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Harrison [MS of impressions of manufacturing districts of L... Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I hope that you will not measure my gratitude to you for so kindly sending the Cleopatra-poem, by my promptitude in writing to thank you for it. Please accept now my bes... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Wetmore Story Cleopatra Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 186... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth C. Akers Two Summers Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 186... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a] [American newspaper extracts] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 In a long letter to Edward Garnett, in which Conrad outlines some aspects of his family history, he writes that his father Apollonius N. Korzeniowski translated into Pol... Joseph Conrad William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona Manuscript : Codex, Sheet, One page of his father's translation into Polish.1850-1899 'It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, and to his perfect satisfaction, as he lay on the be... Joseph Conrad Victor Hugo Les Travailleurs de la Mer Manuscript : Codex, Sheet, Conrad's father's translation into Polish.1850-1899 'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution.' Robert Louis Stevenson Jules Michelet French Revolution Print : Book1850-1899 'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I
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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 : Book1850-1899 '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 Nathaniel Hawthorne "Drowne's Wooden Image" in The Boston Book, being ... Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Henry W. Longfellow "Footprints of Angels" in The Boston Book, being S... Print : Book1850-1899 '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 : Book1850-1899 'Our bride & bridegroom write as if they were very happy reading law, novels, driving fishing & boating' Florence (nee Gaskell) and Charles Crompton [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Thank you extremely for your kind present of Doyle's clever "Bird's-eye Views of Society", which have already been highly approved of in this their new form by my daught... Marianne, 'Meta' and Julia Gaskell Richard Doyle Bird's-eye Views of Society Print : Book1850-1899 'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one wanted to know.' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a] [Report of the Sanitary Commission] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an [italics] over [enditalics]-stern & violent man?' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a] Atlantic Monthly Print : Serial / periodical
