Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "My chronic eastward hankerings and hungerings have been very much quickened of late by the perusal of a little book by our friend Leslie Stephen called The Playgrounds of Europe."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James Print: Book
'I have received such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen today; about my ?V. Hugo?. It is accepted.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, to Mrs Sitwell.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty
& bright -- without a single dead sentence in it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay on Coleridge, this fine evening, when the flies are printing their little cold feet on my hands? It was in order to give up thinking about economy'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
'Read Stephen's admirable, arch-admirable, 'George Eliot', in that Cornhill.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Serial / periodical
'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated snapshots illustrating this reading & his own climb of the same mountain. After supper R.B. Graham gave a general chat on Mountaineering with views. A passage by Whymper on accidents was summarised by A. Rawlings who then read Whymper's account of an extraordinary accident he himself sustained. To conclude the Secretary read a parody of Wadsworth [Wordsworth?] 'We are Seven' composed by H.m. Wallis on climbing at Arolla'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Hayward Print: Book
'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so,to fifnish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "[The] Other House" and a volume of Leslie Stephen (a little diffuse), and eaten very little with never a threat of nausea, I have suffered from nothing beyond irritation at the abnormal dalay,with faint boredom at the meals.[...] Read also five Sonnets every morning.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs Print: Book
'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin Print: Book
'What a pathetic Essay the last volume of Leslie Stephen's. It is evidently a pouring out of his soul on his wife.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin Print: Book
