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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from t...Charles Dickens B.W. Proctor'The Sea'Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849I send you by George (who in Fred?s absence on business, is kind enough to be the bearer of this) the volume which contains the Life of Savage. I have turned down the lea...Charles Dickens Samuel JohnsonAn account of the life of Mr. Richard SavagePrint: Book
1800-1849?My dear Sir, I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself the trouble of reading the first. It seems to me, in t...Charles Dickens ZschokkeBlue WonderPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'There is also among the papers, one piece of absurdity by Mr. Grantley Berkely, called ?Chariot versus coach? which I had previously read and returned, and consequently ...Charles Dickens Grantley BerkelyChariot versus coachManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposite, wondering when it will be dinner time, and cursi...Charles Dickens Henry Torrens [Sir]Field exercises and evolutions of the armyPrint: Book
1800-1849?I see honorable mention of myself, and Mr. Pickwick?s politics, in Fraser this month. They consider Mr. P a decided Whig.?Charles Dickens Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I also return the Grimaldi MS. I have thought the matter over, and looked it over, too. It is very badly done, and is so redolent of twaddle that I fear I can not take i...Charles Dickens WilksMemoirs of Joseph GrimaldiManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?My dear Sir, I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself the trouble of reading the first. It seems to me, in t...Charles Dickens Matthew BarkerNights at SeaPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849?I send you herewith, the forthcoming Miscellany, with my glance at the new poor Law Bill.?Charles Dickens Poor Law BillPrint: Unknown
1800-1849?I shall certainly have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, and will turn over the prospectus in my mind, meanwhile.?Charles Dickens Richard BentleyProspectus for Bentley?s MiscellanyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Preface to Rookwood; if the weather had been finer I i...Charles Dickens William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book
1800-1849?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one man has sent about as much as would fill half a dozen...Charles Dickens unknownsubmissions to Bentley's MiscellanyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?I regret to see one or two errors in the first Volume, though I have the consolation of believing that none but practised eyes will observe them. I am glad you like The ...Charles Dickens Charles DickensThe Black VeilPrint: Book
1800-1849?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from t...Charles Dickens The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper, Unknown
1800-1849'My Dear Sir, As you have long since ceased to be ?a colt? in the periodical paddock, you will not be surprised at my not having been able to find room in the next No. f...Charles Dickens Thomas GaspeyThe Grand JurorManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?I forward you a Chronicle with Hogarth?s beautiful notice.?Charles Dickens The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Did you ever read-of course you have though-Defoe?s history of the Devil? What a capital thing it is. I bought it for a couple of shillings yesterday morning, and have b...Charles Dickens Daniel DefoeThe Political History of the Devil, as well Ancien...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?Dr Milligen?s paper, he must re-write the last half of it; it has cost me three hours this morning, and I can make nothing of it. I think very little of the gentleman wh...Charles Dickens John Gideon MillingenThe Portrait GalleryManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'My dear Ross, Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency that I was particularly anxious to see in a well-dig...Charles Dickens Charles RossThe Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowl...Unknown
1800-1849'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the...Charles Dickens The Terrific RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical


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