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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library of 3d paperbacks. MacAulay's essays, Goldsmith's History of England, Far from the Madding Crowd, Self-Help, Josephus, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Pepys, Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and The Sorrows of Young Werther were among the books Jones read, often on his employer's time. (He hid them under the ledger at the Rhymney Iron Works, where he worked a thirteen hour day as a timekeeper for 9s. a week.)'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Jones Print: Book
'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepys and the Navy, Frederick the Great, Wordsworth, Shelley, Napoleon, where the speaking was of high level and the debating power considerable."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Print: Book
[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
'So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining part of my Sea=manuscript with great pleasure - my wife sitting working by me.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet
'This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among others, a Romance which (under the title of "Love a Cheate") I began ten year ago at Cambridge; and at this time, reading it over tonight, I liked it very well and wondered a little at myself at my vein at that time when I wrote it, doubting that I cannot do so well now if I would try.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet
'And after dinner to the Change a little and then to Whitehall, where anon the Duke of York came and a Committee we had of Tanger; where I read over my rough draft of the contract for Tanger Victualling and acquainted them with the death of Mr Alsopp...'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet
'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet
'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Andrews Manuscript: Sheet
'By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proceedings of the Victualling action this year, and desired his Royal Highness to give me the satisfaction of knowing whether his Royal Highness was pleased therewith. He told me he was...'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Sheet
'to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in charge created by a war - with good content.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alphabetical; and so to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write over once more with my own hand my Catalogue of books, while he reads to me.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pepys Manuscript: Sheet
'and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcasse] over with all the many papers relating to the business; which they do wonder at, and the trouble that I have taken about it, and like the report, so as that they do unanimously resolve to sign it and stand by it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Batten Manuscript: Unknown
'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Penn Manuscript: Unknown
'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Minnes Manuscript: Unknown
'I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duke of York was for punishing him, not only with turning him out of the office but what other punishment he could'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, when I came home to dinner, I read it over again after it was sealed and delivered to the messenger, and read it to my clerks who dined with me, and there I did resolve upon some alteration and caused it to be new writ'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter
'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward me for all my care in keeping them, that I am not likely to be troubled for anything of that kind but what I shall either be able beforehand to prevent, or if discovered, be able to justify myself in.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at the Council Board, with great good liking'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wherein he is mightily pleased, and I perceive to put great value upon me.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter
'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the Duke of York hath from mine wrote to the board; wherein he is mightily pleased, and I perceive to put great value upon me.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Coventry Manuscript: Letter
'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the Officers of this office to the Duke of York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke of York when he comes to town upon it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Unknown
'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the Officers of this office to the Duke of York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke of York when he comes to town upon it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Wren Manuscript: Unknown
'Up, and I did, by a little note which I flung to Deb, advise her that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might govern herself ... The girl read, and as I bid her, returned me the note, flinging it to me in passing by.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Deborah Willet Manuscript: Letter
'This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the board; which I like mighty well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying some hard terms which I had thought fit to put in.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter
'Thence home; and after dinner, by water with Tom down to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way, coming and going, my collections out of the Duke of York's old manuscript of the Navy, which I have bound up and doth please me mightily.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards Manuscript: Unknown
'and home, where I made my boy to finish the reading of my manuscript; and so to supper and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards Manuscript: Unknown
'and so with W. Hewer to the Cock, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he reading to me, for my memory sake, my late collections of the history of the Navy, that I might represent the same by and by to the Duke of York'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: William Hewer Manuscript: Unknown
'and there, by and by being called in, Mr Williamson did read over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of York, bound up in a book with the Duke of York's book of Instructions. He read it well; and after read we were bid to withdraw, nothing being at all said to it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Williamson Manuscript: Unknown
'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russel's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870:
'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morris; I did not know (what A. had put into his Idyll ["The Last Tournament"] by his own observation) that the starlings in June, after they have brought up their young ones, congregate in flocks in a reedy place for the sake of sociability.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job.
Readings from the diary were given by
Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire"
Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys
E.E. Unwin on "The Plague"
& R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ernest E. Unwin Print: Book
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job.
Readings from the diary were given by
Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire"
Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys
E.E. Unwin on "The Plague"
& R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson Print: Book
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job.
Readings from the diary were given by
Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire"
Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys
E.E. Unwin on "The Plague"
& R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis Print: Book
'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis and to H.R. Smith for able essays giving an outline of Pepys' life & an estimate of his character. From H.R. Smith we were introduced to Pepys as the competent official who by keenness made himself master of his job.
Readings from the diary were given by
Rosamund Wallis on "The Great Fire"
Mrs Robson on Mrs Pepys
E.E. Unwin on "The Plague"
& R.H. Robson'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Robson Print: Book
'On the rising of Parliament [on 7 September 1880] the Schreibers were free to go abroad once more. On this occasion they made Cologne their first stopping-place. The evenings there were spent in reading Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880]
'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. The Secretary then read a letter from Marjorie C. Cole, expressing her interest in the Book
Club and offering us a book “Gone Rambling” by Cecil Roberts which she had recently read with
enjoyment. [...]
[...]
6. The large subject of London was then opened by Howard Smith. He spoke of the extraordinary
insistence of the divergent views as its origin, leaning to the opinion that it owed its beginnings
to to a variety of causes.
[...]
7. Extracts from Defoe’s Journal of the Great Plague were then read by Victor Alexander.
[...]
8. From Defoe we turned to Pepys, and Reginald Robson described the Great Fire.
[...]
9. We next enjoyed a delightful picture of old London which Edith Goadby gave us, making the
acquaintance of Gabriel Bardon the locksmith, his pretty daughter Dolly and Simon the
apprentice. It was all too short, but at least we left them happily seated before their jolly round
of beef, their Yorkshire cake and quaintly shaped jug of ale.
10. A further scene was depicted for us by Ethel Stevens, old Crosby Hall, Chelsea Hospital,
Cheyne walk as it used to be, and Carlyle’s house, where he entertained Tennyson in the
kitchen. We were introduced to John Stuart Mill and his great concern over the loss of his fiend’s
manuscript of the French Revolution, and we took glimpses at William de Morgan + Sir Thomas
More.
11. Finally Charles Stansfield read us Wordsworth’s Sonnet composed on Westminster Bridge,
and Henry Marriage Wallis quoted happily ten lines from William Morris.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald H. Robson Print: Book
‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with
an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with
whom I usually spent the best of it—with Will Harvey … Yesterday, some
misbegotten fool took all my books and burned them. They were in a sack
and too near other rubbish sacks for safety as it seems. This includes the
French war songs I had promised … We are just going up again and will be
on business for a little while now. Old Pepys is a great man, really a great
man to be so absolutely interested in everything interesting. Of course he
is funny, but that is not the final impression left by the book … The article in
the Times Literary on the Navy was very good [“The Tradition of the Navy,”
31 August 1916, p.1] … I read a great deal of Kipling’s "Fringes of the Fleet"
in a shell hole, during one of the most annoying times we have had. It was
during heavy fatigue, and the Bosches spotted us and let fly with heavy
shrapnel and 5.9s … In books, after a careful survey, I find myself reduced
to Wordsworth’s "Excursion", and a few blitherings from the “Pastor” have
reduced me to a state of “wet” melancholy. (“Wet” is B.E.F. for half-witted.)
I bought that book from a 2d box in Putney, and the excruciatingly mild
engraving at the beginning alone is worth the money; but not to me. It is
lucky that some of my books were distributed, and can be begged back. But
alas! Walt Whitman and Browning are na poo.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney Print: Book
