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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyle's "Teutsch Ritter".'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late sorrow'John Ruskin [unknown]Roman de la rose [?]Print: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday afternoon as I was lying reading in my hut the C.O. came in and told me I had to go to Warloy (behind Albert) to relieve the surgeon specialist.'Harold Upcott unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1850-1899'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex
1800-1849'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame Alexander Pope[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom he is in constant treaty about some important smelti...Thomas Carlyle BadamsLetterManuscript: Letter
1600-1699'Yesterday came out the King's Declaracion of war against the French; but with such mild invitations of both them and [the] Dutch to come over hither, with promise of the...Samuel Pepys King Charles IIHis Majesties declaration against the FrenchPrint: Broadsheet, Pamphlet
1850-1899'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.' John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something. Just imagine a work of art called parcel No.4000, e...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1700-1799'Yesterday evening I had a little choice time by myself. I read and was still in my heart.'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, possibly Bible]Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday hard at "Friedrich", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday hard work on "Frederick"'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday I experienced liveliness of spirit, without any apparent cause; nothing but free mercy and grace, for I think, as far as I was concerned, I was rather rebellio...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
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
1800-1849'Yesterday I had a letter from Murray in answer to one I had written in something of a determined stile for I had no idea of permitting him to start from the course after...Walter Scott John MurrayLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Yesterday I had a letter from [Mrs Scott] written with characteristic eagerness about "Trevelyan".'Mrs Scott Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.'Vera Brittain W.N.P. BarbellionunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday I read the first inst[alment] of "To Let" in a spirit of philistinish curiosity.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyTo LetPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter very ill, and seems to be but little better even now....Robert Louis Stevenson a fellow student of Robert Louis StevensonletterManuscript: Letter


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