√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 Fortunately books are fairly plentiful and I keep
my own books (“Dombey & Son” and “Three
Musketeers”) for the time when I am in a place
which nobody has left any b... Arthur Morris Charles Dickens Sketches by 'Boz' Print : Book1850-1899 'Darwin, writing in praise of the gaucho in his
“Voyage of a Naturalist” says that if a gaucho cuts
your throat he does it like a gentleman - even as a
small boy I... William Henry Hudson Charles Darwin Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural... Print : Book1850-1899 Speaking of the passion of his neighbouring
Argentinian landowner, Don Gregorio Gandara, for a
range of coloured horses, Hudson writes: 'It
reminds one of the famou... William Henry Hudson Mark Antony Lower Old Speech and Old Manners in Sussex Print : Book1900-1945 ‘A poor, miserable autobiographer naturally
desires to make his personality as interesting to
the reader as it appears to himself. I feel this
strongly in reading o... William Henry Hudson Sergei Aksakoff Years of Childhood Print : Book1850-1899 'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and
rambles that took up so much of my time, but I
would try to overcome my disinclination to serious
reading. There we... William Henry Hudson James Rennie The Domestic Habits of Birds Print : Book1850-1899 'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and
rambles that took up so much of my time, but I
would try to overcome my disinclination to serious
reading. There we... William Henry Hudson [unknown] [unknown] [Natural History] Print : Book1850-1899 'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and
rambles that took up so much of my time, but I
would try to overcome my disinclination to serious
reading. There we... William Henry Hudson Charles Rollin The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginian... Print : Book1850-1899 'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and
rambles that took up so much of my time, but I
would try to overcome my disinclination to serious
reading. There we... William Henry Hudson Flavius Josephus The Works of Flavius Josephus Print : Book1850-1899 'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and
rambles that took up so much of my time, but I
would try to overcome my disinclination to serious
reading. There we... William Henry Hudson [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and
rambles that took up so much of my time, but I
would try to overcome my disinclination to serious
reading. There we... William Henry Hudson John Leland The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revel... Print : Book1850-1899 'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and
rambles that took up so much of my time, but I
would try to overcome my disinclination to serious
reading. There we... William Henry Hudson Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution: A History Print : Book1850-1899 'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and
rambles that took up so much of my time, but I
would try to overcome my disinclination to serious
reading. There we... William Henry Hudson Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1850-1899 'It was not strange in these circumstances
[suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic
fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the
religious literatur... William Henry Hudson Richard Allestree The Whole Duty of Man Print : Book1850-1899 'It was not strange in these circumstances
[suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic
fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the
religious literatur... William Henry Hudson Richard Baxter A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live Print : Book1850-1899 'It was not strange in these circumstances
[suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic
fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the
religious literatur... William Henry Hudson [Anon] [Anon] [An Answer to the Infidel] Print : Book1850-1899 'It was not strange in these circumstances
[suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic
fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the
religious literatur... William Henry Hudson Richard Baxter The Saints' Everlasting Rest Print : Book1850-1899 Hudson recalled how, preoccupied with the prospect
of his mother's death and it effect on him: 'Then
one day, with my mind in this troubled state, in
reading George... William Henry Hudson George Combe A System of Phrenology Print : Book1850-1899 'In reading, nothing goes to the heart like any true
account of a mother and son's love for one another,
such as we find in that true book I have already
spoken of ... William Henry Hudson Leigh Hunt The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the books I read then for the first time
was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old
friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres
[sic], who had been ... William Henry Hudson Gilbert White The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the books I read then for the first time
was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old
friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres
[sic], who had been ... William Henry Hudson Thomas Brown Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the books I read then for the first time
was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old
friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres
[sic], who had been ... William Henry Hudson Anon Anon [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'I had to confess [to his recently returned elder
brother] that I had not read a line of his
[Darwin's] work, that with the exception of
Draper's "History of Civili... William Henry Hudson Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species Print : Book1850-1899 'I had to confess [to his recently returned elder
brother] that I had not read a line of his
[Darwin's] work, that with the exception of
Draper's "History of Civili... William Henry Hudson John William Draper The History of the Intellectual Development of Eur... Print : Book1850-1899 'During my sojourn on the Rio Negro letters and
papers reached me only at rare intervals. On one
occasion I passed nearly two months without seeing
a newspaper. I r... William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a] [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'We read little; my companion has never learnt
letters, and I, less fortunate in that respect,
having only been able to discover one book in the
house, a Spanish "L... William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a] Libro de Misa [prayer book/liturgy/missal] Print : Book1800-1849 ‘I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of Pindar...I have not found the
former very difficult, any further than as deep thinking and conceal’d c... Hartley Coleridge Pindar [unknown] Print : Book, university set text1800-1849 'I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of...the Νικομάχεια Ἠθικὰ of
... Hartley Coleridge Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Print : Book, university set text1800-1849 ‘...in my Sophocles I fail’d, chiefly from being put on in a misprinted passage – for the play
was one I had studied with more than common attention. In Virgil I stumbl... Hartley Coleridge Homer Odyssey Print : written and oral examinations1800-1849 ‘Have you seen Southey’s Vision of Judgement!!!!! O Tempora, O Mores – And is it come to this?
And our dear good mother gave me such a hint to praise in her last letter... Hartley Coleridge Robert Southey A Vision of Judgement Print : Unknown1800-1849 ‘Of course I need not tell you...that I wrote the critique on the Pilgrim to Compostella in
Blackwood – that both the Professor and I have read "the Progress and Prospe... Hartley Coleridge Robert Southey Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress an... Print : Book1800-1849 ‘...the Court Journal (which by the way, seems to be very good – for nothing – )...The Court
Journal must pay uncommon well, before I will rank myself among its familia... Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] Court Journal Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘You perhaps recollect the only rememberable lines in Prior’s Solomon – that very respectable
poem, which nevertheless, is rather too like one of Mrs. Fry’s Newgate-mad... Hartley Coleridge Matthew Prior Solomon on the Vanity of the World Print : Book1800-1849 'You have probably seen Henry’s book on Homer. It is wonderfully clever, does him much credit.
I thoroughly sympathize, (hang the word it’s always intruding) with his a... Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Po... Print : Book1800-1849 ‘The Rydal Mount family...They were all hugely belly-ached with Townshend’s articles in
Blackwood, which was almost as silly as the articles themselves. C. H. Townshend... Hartley Coleridge Chauncey Hare Townshend [essays in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘I am afraid there is little hope at present of another portion of the Recluse, but it must delight
every lover of mankind to see how the influence of Wordsworth’s poet... Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth The Recluse Print : Book, Hartley is also referring to a 'reading' of W. Wordsworth's poetry outside any form of text1800-1849 ‘Of course you have read his [Robert Southey's] colloquies – and with delight – but delight
mingled with sorrow, that so much beautiful truth should be intertwined, and... Hartley Coleridge Robert Southey Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress an... Print : Book1800-1849 ‘I have also long ponder’d on a Poem, which could I execute up to my conception, would perhaps
take rank with Pollock’s [sic] Course of Time.’ Hartley Coleridge Robert Pollock The Course of Time Print : Book1800-1849 ‘So true is Wordsworth’s observation (somebody has borrow’d my Wordsworth, and I’m like a
Jack Tar without his tobacco pouch) that the older we grow, the more we become... Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 ‘You probably have little time for literary labours or I should advise you to write for the
Quarterly Theological. It is a very staunch, orthodox work – not ultra in po... Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Re... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘...the Quarterly [Review], under [John Gibson] Lockhart’s management, is very different from
what it was under [William] Gifford, whose benevolence...certainly did not... Hartley Coleridge John Taylor Coleridge [articles in The Quarterly Review] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘I am sorry for the delay which doubtless is owing to the confounded Politics that they stuff the
Magazine with, to the great annoyance of Ladies and Liberals; and not ... Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I was seriously alarmed at the beginning of this
enquiry [into the memory of smells] by reading in
McCosh: "When the organs of taste and smell,
supposed by Ferrier... William Henry Hudson James McCosh Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated Print : Book1900-1945 'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call
[of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on the snipe in the Fur and Feather
series. I doubt if any of t... William Henry Hudson Henry Seebohm History of British Birds Print : Book1900-1945 'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call
[of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on
the snipe in the Fur and Feather series. I doubt if
any of... William Henry Hudson L. H. de V. Shaw Snipe and Woodcock Print : Book1900-1945 'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and
all we have about is habits is a note by the bird
collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in
his third volume (O... William Henry Hudson Edmund Selous Birdwatching Print : Book1900-1945 'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and
all we have about is habits is a note by the bird
collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in
his third volume (O... William Henry Hudson Wadyslaw Taczanowski Ornithologie du Pérou Print : Book1900-1945 'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and
all we have about is habits is a note by the bird
collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in
his third volume (O... William Henry Hudson A. B. R. Trevor-Battye Pictures in Prose Print : Book1900-1945 'I was much interested in your "Saturday [Review]"
article [apparently about birds in Kew Gardens].' William Henry Hudson J. Rudge Harding 'A Woodpecker at Kew' Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘Glad you’ve seen Winter’s Wreath.’ Sarah Coleridge Hartley Coleridge [poems in The Winter's Wreath] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘Thanks for Swing and the Athenaeum which is very welcome, and well worth Two-pence’. Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I wonder if you can tell me what the enclosed
flower is? It is very pretty—deep, almost maroon,
red flowers in a big coarse, burdock-like plant. It
is not in my b... William Henry Hudson Edward Step Wayside and Woodland Blossoms: A Pocket Guide Print : Book1800-1849 ‘You probably saw the Tea-table in B[lackwood's Magazine]. but it does not look so well in print
as it sounded when Elizabeth Warde listen’d to it. Ladies praise makes ... Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘I am sorry that the Athenaeum is no longer publish’d in such a shape that I can get it, for it is
well worth two-pence. I can hardly say as much for the Carlisle Patri... Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] Carlisle Patriot Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘I have an opportunity of seeing papers enough at Mr. Withington’s, the present occupant of Allan
Bank, a most worthy Englishman and Tory of Falstaffian dimensions, who... Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ‘D[erwent Coleridge] had sent me his sermon. It is very good.’ Hartley Coleridge Derwent Coleridge The Circumstances of the Present Times, Considered... Print : Book1800-1849 ‘[William] Blackwood expresses much admiration of the Fletcher Letters, but thinks their
republication at this time would not be just the thing - requests me to use my ... William Blackwood Samuel Taylor Coleridge Letters to Mr. Justice Fletcher on the Irish Quest... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ‘I know very few people in Leeds. ... The walls of course now plastered with Election puffs and
squibs, the newspapers rancorous against one another, but, as far as I c... Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] [Local posters and newspapers in Leeds related to ... Print : Poster1800-1849 ‘The Poems [Hartley’s 1833 Poems], I believe, have not done so far amiss. The Review in the
Quarterly I must thank you for. It is far too laudatory for my stomach, and ... Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] [review of Hartley Coleridge's 1833 Poems in The Q... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘I received the Quarterly [Review] from Mr. Murray. If praise could do me any good, there is
enough of it: but I know nothing of that “overweening worship of Wordsworth... Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a] [Review of Hartley Coleridge's 1833 Poems in The Q... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'About "The Crown of Life", It is almost the only
one of G. G. [George Gissing]'s books I haven’t read.
It didn’t appeal to me—it was not a good Gissing
book. Just ... William Henry Hudson George Gissing Will Warburton Print : Book1800-1849 ‘I flatter myself the Volume [Hartley’s 1833 Poems] has sold tol lol. Dora [Wordsworth] finds
great fault with its shape: a fault chargeable solely on my own bad taste ... Dora Wordsworth Hartley Coleridge Poems, Songs and Sonnets Print : Book1900-1945 'By the time my wife goes to bed at 9 or soon after,
I feel too tired to do anything except sit by the
fire and read a little poetry, then go to bed
myself—without ... William Henry Hudson [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'About "The Crown of Life", It is almost the only
one of G. G. [George Gissing]'s books I haven’t read.
It didn’t appeal to me—it was not a good Gissing
book. Just ... William Henry Hudson Louise Chandler Moulton Swallow-flights [and Other Verses] Print : Book1800-1849 ‘I dined yesterday at Rydal Mount ... Poor Mr. Wordsworth is all but blind. He bears his affliction
with wonderful cheerfulness. I read to him my own Life of Roger Asch... Hartley Coleridge Hartley Coleridge Biographia Borealis; or Lives of Distinguished Nor... Print : Book1900-1945 'You have not perhaps seen the new "Gentleman’s
Magazine" since it resumed publication. This is the first number—it was sent to me by the Editor
Mr Bullen, who asks m... William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a] The Gentleman's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I am disgusted with myself for letting so long a
time pass before thanking you for the Gissing
book ["The House of Cobwebs and other stories"],
as I suppose it was... William Henry Hudson George Gissing The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Print : Book1900-1945 'I am disgusted with myself for letting so long a
time pass before thanking you for the Gissing
book ["The House of Cobwebs and other stories"],
as I suppose it was... William Henry Hudson George Gissing The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Print : Book1900-1945 '‘We were going to congratulate you on Tuesday
after
the play ["The Silver Box" 25 Sept 1906] but we
saw
you shut in by such a vast throng of eager friends
tha... William Henry Hudson William Archer [review] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Very many thanks for the book ["The Country
House"] and its dedication—it makes me very
proud. I received it on Friday and began reading
it straight off, but it wa... William Henry Hudson John Galsworthy The Country House Print : Book1800-1849 ‘And what do you think of the "Doctor"? And what do you think of [John Gibson] Lockhart’s
wise conjecture, that I - even I - Hartley Coleridge, assisted by my father, a... Hartley Coleridge Robert Southey The Doctor Print : Book1900-1945 'Many thanks for your Hill book. ["On Cambrian and
Cumbrian Hills"] I had meant to thank you
verbally on the evening of your annual meeting
last Friday but it cam... William Henry Hudson Henry Salt On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Sno... Print : Book1900-1945 'Thank you very much for sending the Fortnightly
Leaflet with your history of the robin. It is a
charming paper—written charmingly and very
interesting.’ William Henry Hudson Ethel Williams Fortnightly Leaflet Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 ‘Talking of this, my Sara, what d’ye think / (To ask the question is but waste of Ink) / Of
Harriet Martineau’s political novels? / Fine food, forsooth, for starving pa... Hartley Coleridge Harriet Martineau [novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'I owe you my best thanks for the gift of Mrs
Cornford’s book of poems which I am delighted to
have. I have been away in Wiltshire or would have
thanked you sooner.... William Henry Hudson Frances Crofts Cornford Poems Print : Book1900-1945
'I owe you my best thanks for the gift of Mrs
Cornford’s book of poems which I am delighted to
have. I have been away in Wiltshire or would have
thanked you soo... William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a] Morning Post Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ‘I am quite delighted with the sweet little one’s [Sara Coleridge’s] sweet little book. It is such
an image of the tiny self - not perhaps as married life, and alas, si... Hartley Coleridge Sara Coleridge Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children Print : Book1800-1849 ‘... The ancient fables attributed to Aesop, Phaedrus, Pilpay, Avienus etc., are emblems
or...allegories rather than Fables, most probably suggested by the Zoographic H... Hartley Coleridge Aesop Fables Print : Book1800-1849 ‘...Other tales, in which beasts and birds compose the Dramatis Personae, are to be
considered as burlesque satires, intended to make human actions and passions ridicul... Hartley Coleridge Catherine Ann Turner Dorset The Peacock ‘at Home’: A sequel to the Butterfly's... Print : Book1700-1799 ‘... [William] Roscoe’s “Butterfly's Ball” and Mrs. [Sarah] Trimmer’s “Flapsy and Pecksey” (which
I am glad to see so kindly mentioned in the Doctor [by Robert Southey]... Hartley Coleridge Sarah Trimmer Fabulous Histories, Designed for the Instruction o... Print : Book1800-1849 ‘I dined yesterday at Rydal [Mount] ... I read ‘Yarrow Revis[ited]’ - and some of the new Poems -
very sweet, but can’t talk about them here, for I’ve more to say than ... Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems Print : Book1800-1849 ‘I hope Mr. Wordsworth feels some consolation in the complete victory of his poetic fame. He
may at least feel assured, that no Great Poet ever lived to see his name of... Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems Print : Book1900-1945 'Many thanks for your new book: I see that there are
many things that I have read before, and shall be
glad to read again in book form. Last evening I read
your poi... William Henry Hudson John Galsworthy A Motley Print : Book, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Many thanks for your new book: I see that there are
many things that I have read before, and shall be
glad to read again in book form. Last evening I read
your poi... William Henry Hudson John Galsworthy [article in 'The Nation'] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Tell Sylvia that when I came back [from Norfolk a
week before] I read the rest of "Uncle Paul’s
Education" and that though there are beautiful
things in it and a b... William Henry Hudson Algernon Blackwood The Education of Uncle Paul Print : Book1800-1849 ‘Mr. Parry has not yet received the Number of the Quarterly containing the Review of my book
- but I got a sight of it the other day at Mrs. [Louise] Claude’s. I am, of... Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge [Review of Hartley Coleridge's Lives of Distinguis... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘As to the Thucydides, I cannot think it exactly the book for me - considering how little access
I have at present to classical books, and how little I know of those cr... Hartley Coleridge Thucydides [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 ‘Here, Hal, you see the influence you possess as a Tremensian; no one, not even Bingley,
would have thought [of?] continuing the work had it not been for your panegyric... Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge [Review of Hartley Coleridge's Lives of Distinguis... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘...But I cannot agree with Mitford that the pronunciation of the Modern Greeks is even a clue to
that of the ancient occupants of the same country. ...’ Hartley Coleridge William Mitford History of Greece Print : Book1900-1945 'I’ve read nothing but poetry since I saw you,
except one novel, a curious rough sort of book
called "Fortuna Chance" by James Prior, the scene
laid in Sherwood Fo... William Henry Hudson James Prior Fortuna Chance Print : Book1900-1945 'I've been frightfully lazy today: it's been
too hot to do anything. Pater was a gem: he
brought my breakfast up about 9.30 and I didn't
get up until eleven. I read... Dora Willatt Ian Hay Getting Together Print : Book1800-1849 ‘...what makes you think that I dislike your ‘Table-Talk’?...I might tell Derwent [Coleridge], that
the book gave me no feeling of my father’s manner, which it does not... Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Specimens of the Table-Talk of S. T. Coleridge Print : Book1900-1945 I am just now reading Benson's life of Queen
Victoria and can't help feeling that if we had old
Lord Palmerston now he would probably close the
canal and have done ... Freya Stark E. F. Benson Queen Victoria Print : Book1900-1945 I am so delighted to have 'The Seven Pillars'. I
read the poem again, which I liked, and am keeping
the rest for a little as all the household here
are enjoying the... Freya Stark Thomas Edward Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom Print : Book1900-1945 I am reading 'The Seven Pillars'. The chapter
about the Arab character is very true and finely
put. Freya Stark Thomas Edward Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom Print : Book1900-1945 I have just done a review of a charming book on
the Libyan desert by a man called Bagnold who
first proved that one can motor up sand dunes. Did
you know the Libyan... Freya Stark Ralph A. Bagnold Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World Print : Book1900-1945 I have been for two motor drives, so you see I am
getting on: and I am reading a book called
'Tadpoles and God' which pleases me by talking of
Mr Wells who 'in his ... Freya Stark Laurence Oliver Brown Tadpoles and God Print : Book1900-1945 The Daily Telegraph interview with Mussolini makes
me sick. What fools they are. Every word M. said
was just vague nonsense: anyone who knows Italians
can see how h... Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a] Daily Telegraph Print : Newspaper1900-1945 I am reading some Yemeni legends and tales. One
nice one about two rival doctors, a good and a bad
one: the King said he would take as his family
physician the one ... Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon] [Yemeni legends and tales] Unknown 1900-1945 I have been studying the little pamphlet [on the
Arabs] in the train and feel that, though you have
improved the language, the whole thing is so
ineffective that it... Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon] [British propaganda pamphlet (anti-Italian) in Ara... Print : Pamphlet1900-1945 I have just been reading a rather nice version of
Genesis in Arabic. It says that Gabriel was sent
to the Earth to bring a bit of clay for the making
of Adam: but t... Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a] Bible (Genesis) 1900-1945 A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed,
keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a
priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I
can't tell you what a lo... Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon] [unidentified manuscript belonging to Saladin] Manuscript : Codex1900-1945 A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed,
keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a
priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I
can't tell you what a lo... Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon] [unidentified manuscript of the 8th century A.D.] Manuscript : Codex1900-1945 A delightful Persian in Basra, Mirza Muhammed,
keeps — entirely for his own pleasure — a
priceless collection of Persian and Arabian MSS. I
can't tell you what a lo... Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon] [unidentified manuscript stamped by the 4th Timuri... Manuscript : Codex, illuminated manuscript1900-1945 We went to St. Tropez to see my Alsatian friends
and pushed on to lunch at Paradou, and found A.
Besse very cheerful with 7 ladies (including
ourselves) around him,... Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon] [intelligence reports from Abyssinia] Unknown 1900-1945 We woke up to-day to see the coast of Yemen, the
Indian Ocean very blue, and were presently sailing
into the bay of Aden. As I went into the saloon
for passports, M... Stewart Henry Perowne Freya Stark Baghdad Sketches Print : Book1900-1945 Meanwhile I have been enjoying myself reading
Anatole France and the philosophy of M. Jérôme
Coignard. What a charming creation. 'Il meprise
les hommes avec tendres... Freya Stark Anatole France Les Opinions de Jérôme Coignard Print : Book1900-1945 I sat on my roof and went on with my manuscripts,
distracted by bevies of women wanting medicines
for what they call 'wind', i.e. pains from sitting
in their perpet... Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon] [unidentified Yemeni manuscripts] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 I am getting hold of a copyist as there are
various exciting manuscripts here and I can't deal
with all myself. I have nearly finished one and it
is full of useful ... Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon] [unidentified Yemen manuscript] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 I have found what I hope is an unknown and useful
manuscript of local history and am copying it out.
It has a nice miracle recorded. Someone made fun
of a holy man ... Freya Stark unknown unknown unidentified Yemeni manuscript Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 The day's finds have been brought in, all the
diggers so excited they rushed in with them to
show me on my roof. There was a sort of communal
grave with about six s... Freya Stark unknown unknown inscription on pottery Manuscript : Graffito, inscription on pottery1800-1849 ‘Mr. Wordsworth looks older but keeps up his spirits wonderfully; his character, like his
poetry, is much softened by age. I know not how Derwent [Coleridge] can think ... Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems Print : Book1700-1799 'Mr father could not have written the Ancient Mariner at sixty, yet who will say that his genius
declined? The Genius was there as mighty as ever, but the frame could n... Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Print : Book1900-1945 'Do you read H. G. Wells's vaticinations which are
somewhat faliderol [sic] in the "Daily Mail"? Well
there' some—a good deal of truth in them,and the
reading class... William Henry Hudson H. G. Wells [articles in the Daily Mail] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ‘...I did not and do not, admire any of his [Robert Southey’s] laureate poetry - (except the
epicedian on the Princess, which is beautiful) nor agree with all his Artic... Hartley Coleridge Robert Southey Funeral Ode on the Death of the Princess Charlotte Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘...I shall give my own poetical translation, also, of the scenes which Schiller in his translation
of Macbeth has substituted for the original witch-scenes. He has alt... Hartley Coleridge William Shakespeare Macbeth Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 ‘Owen Lloyd has lent me an essay on Faith by my Father transcribed by poor Charles Lloyd. It
will probably make a good addition to your forthcoming volumes. I will tran... Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Essay on Faith Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 ‘I have been reading Von Raumer’s England. He speaks highly of the Table talk and of my father,
though some of the sentiments are at variance with his own.’ Hartley Coleridge Friedrich von Raumer England in 1835: Being a Series of Letters Written... Print : Book1800-1849 ‘I have read [Henry] Taylor’s Philip Van Artevelde. It is admirable.’ Hartley Coleridge Henry Taylor Philip van Artevelde Print : Book1800-1849 ‘Talking of Doctors, there is another volume of the Doctor forthcoming. What a wonderful energy
of intellect, that can produce such a work under such circumstances. And... Hartley Coleridge Robert Southey The Doctor Print : Book1800-1849 ‘...I think I perceive in Wordsworth’s last volume [Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems], a
decided inclination to the playful, the elegant and the beautiful; with an alm... Hartley Coleridge William Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems Print : Book1800-1849 ‘...it is very cruel in people whom I never injured to publish my father’s natural complaints of
my delinquencies to the million whom they concern not - still worse to ... Hartley Coleridge Thomas Allsop Letters, Conversations and Recollections of Samuel... Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 '...I should have thought that I acknowledged the “[Literary] Remains”, but I suppose I only
intended to do it. I am, on the whole, greatly pleased with them. There is ... Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print : Book1900-1945 I meanwhile have been doing nothing except read
Jane Austen. I have stopped seeing people for a
week, as it hurts the voice to talk much, but had
one visit from the... Freya Stark Jane Austen Novels Print : Book1900-1945 I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of
beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not
only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this
female emancip... Freya Stark Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1900-1945 I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of
beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not
only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this
female emancip... Freya Stark Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1900-1945 I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of
beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not
only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this
female emancip... Freya Stark Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1900-1945 I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of
beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not
only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this
female emancip... Freya Stark Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1900-1945 I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of
beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not
only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this
female emancip... Freya Stark Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Print : Book1900-1945 I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of
beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not
only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this
female emancip... Freya Stark Jane Austen Persuasion Print : Book1900-1945 I have just started my “Dombey & Son” having at
last reached a place where books are not very
plentiful. But it is not long enough to last for
many a day. Arthur Morris Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Print : Book1900-1945 I have just read a 1/- book — History of our own
Times 1885-1913. It is a kind of Lords Modern
Europe written in a somewhat different style and
embracing the whole ... Arthur Morris George Peabody Gooch History of Our Time, 1885-1913 1900-1945 I am wading through “Barry Lyndon” the first book
of Thackeray’s I have ever got into and I don’t
find it at all too bad. Arthur Morris William Makepeace Thackeray The Luck of Barry Lyndon Print : Book1900-1945 If you ever pass the free library I should pop in
as most of the illustrated weeklies have these
maps each week. While on the subject of libraries
— I think you wou... Arthur Morris Arnold Bennett Helen of the High Hand Print : Book1900-1945 I should like you to read the long article in
the December number of Blackwood’s Magazine
although it costs 2/6. It gives a very
excellent history of the pleasant w... Arthur Morris [n/a] [n/a] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 I am in the middle of a splendid and much-talked-
about book “Joan & Peter” by H.G. Wells, and in it
I find a brief description of “Pounce” which was
played in the b... Arthur Morris Herbert George Wells Joan and Peter Print : Book1900-1945 In the evenings before patience time M. works
while I read “Sketches from Boz” to her. Quite a
Darby & Joan affair. Arthur Morris Charles Dickens Sketches by 'Boz' Print : Book1900-1945 'I wonder if by any chance you saw Hardy's poem in
the last or the December "Harper's Magazine". It is
a wonderful story of a master builder who built or
greatly ad... William Henry Hudson Thomas Hardy 'The Abbey Mason (Inventor of the "Perpendicular" ... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 M. is here deep in “Wuthering Heights”, with the
ladies singing hard in the next room. Margery Morris Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Print : Book1900-1945 In the evenings before patience time M. works
while I read “Sketches from Boz” to her. Quite a
Darby & Joan affair. Margery Morris Charles Dickens Sketches by 'Boz' Print : Book1900-1945 'When I took up the "[English] Review" I couldn't
help saying (with a sigh) "Yet another gorgeous
laudition of Francis Thompson—and by Austin
Harrison—too bad!" But... William Henry Hudson Austin Harrison The Poetry of Francis Thompson Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Many thanks for your letter and book of verse.
[...] I am delighted to possess your translations
of modern Welsh verse, also the introduction and
biographical note... William Henry Hudson H. Idris Bell Poems from the Welsh: Translated into English Vers... Print : Book1900-1945 'Thank you for "Punch" and all the letters of the
last few days [...]. I send you a copy of today's
"Statesman" since you care to read my stuff. If when
you come up... William Henry Hudson Thomas Hardy A Changed Man, the Waiting Supper and Other Tales:... Print : Book1900-1945 'I read the "Observer" one [a review of "My Life in
Sarawak"] on Saturday, and that I do like because it
confirms my own opinion of the book. I daresay it
was by Si... William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a] The Observer Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More
medicines! We had a very long talk and when we
came out to the waiting room there was an old
patient of his—Sister someb... Anon Anon Margaret Brooke My Life in Sarawak Print : Book1900-1945 'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More
medicines! We had a very long talk and when we
came out to the waiting room there was an old
patient of his—Sister someb... William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a] Blue Book [Parliamentary Papers] Print : Book1900-1945 'Here is the much talked of book [Morley Robert's
"Time and Thomas Waring"]. It has been a pain for me
to read it all through, though it didn't make me
slop over an... William Henry Hudson Morley Roberts Time and Thomas Waring: A Study of a Man Print : Book1900-1945 'To go back to your book ["Joseph Conrad: A
Study"]; I know you thought highly of "Nostromo"
but didn't know you placed it quite so far above
the other books. The o... William Henry Hudson Richard Curle Joseph Conrad: A Study Print : Book1900-1945 'To go back to your book ["Joseph Conrad: A
Study"]; I know you thought highly of "Nostromo"
but didn't know you placed it quite so far above
the other books. The o... William Henry Hudson Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent Print : Book1900-1945 'To go back to your book ["Joseph Conrad: A
Study"]; I know you thought highly of "Nostromo"
but didn't know you placed it quite so far above
the other books. The o... William Henry Hudson Joseph Conrad Nostromo Print : Book1900-1945 'I have just finished that wonderful book—"The Way
of All Flesh". It is a wonderful book.' William Henry Hudson Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh Print : Book1850-1899 'Humourous [sic] & Pathetic. Worth reading.' Sarah Good Helen Mathers Comin' thro' the Rye: A Novel Print : Book1850-1899 'Charming' Sarah Good Eugenie Marlitt Gold Else Print : Book1850-1899 'Story of Lancashire cotton famine[/]American War' Sarah Good Jessie Fothergill Probation: A Novel Print : Book1850-1899 'August at Scarborough' Sarah Good Henry Kingsley Ravenshoe Print : Book1850-1899 'Sept. Trans. from Norwegian by Eliz. Carmichael. A
very strange book. I don't care for it at all.' Sarah Good Bjřrnstjerne Bjřrnson In God's Way Print : Book1850-1899 'Sept. Nov. Very interesting' Sarah Good Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Life of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of Rugby Print : Book1900-1945 'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but
collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good
as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ...
One feels so isolated all alone wi... Mary Franeis Butts O. Henry (pseud) [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Eleanor in great pain. Very brave but
collapsed—throat ghastly. O Henry ... no good
as a pick-me-up. Tried gramophone—better ...
One feels so isolated all alone wi... Mary Franeis Butts Bertrand Russell Problems of Philosophy Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Betrand Russell all morning, wrote, ate
apples—applied more work NCCL [National Council
for Civil Liberties]. 2 o'clock met John
[Rodker]. Walked to Dorking. ... Mary Franeis Butts Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Betrand Russell all morning, wrote, ate
apples—applied more work NCCL [National Council
for Civil Liberties]. 2 o'clock met John
[Rodker]. Walked to Dorking. ... Mary Franeis Butts Bertrand Russell Problems of Philosophy Print : Book1850-1899 'April. Sustained interest' Sarah Good Lily Dougall Beggars All: A Novel Print : Book1850-1899 'Aug. (Grand)' Sarah Good Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 '" " (not finished)'
[The ditto marks are below the words 'Aug.Grand'] Sarah Good Elisabeth Werner Fruhlingsboten Print : Book1850-1899 '" " (Swedish)'
[The ditto marks are below the words 'Aug.Grand'] Sarah Good Tor Hedberg Ett Eldprof Print : Book1850-1899 'Sept. (Trans. into German)' Sarah Good Bjornstjerne Bjornson Ein Frohlicher Bursch Print : Book1850-1899 'Dec. Not finished.' Sarah Good Benjamim Disraeli Tancred Print : Book1850-1899 'Jan. Very pretty stories' Sarah Good Ouida Bimbi, Stories for Children Print : Book1850-1899 'March at S. Martin's Lodge Scarborough' Sarah Good Charles Mackarness The Message of the Prayer Book Print : Book1850-1899 Ditto marks under the words:
'March at S. Martin's Lodge Scarborough'.
Also, 'part of' is written before the title 'Lectures on the Creed'. Sarah Good Elizabeth Wordsworth Illustrations of the Creed Print : Book1850-1899 'June (-July with Winnie and Edith)' Sarah Good Thomas Babington Macaulay Lord Clive Print : Book1850-1899 Ditto marks underneath the words:
'June (-July with Winnie and Edith)' Sarah Good William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Print : Book1850-1899 'May,June' [ditto marks under the words '-July with
Winnie and Edith']. Sarah Good Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop Print : Book1850-1899 'Aug. Jewish story'. Sarah Good Amy Levy Reuben Sachs Print : Book1900-1945 'At St. Servan I became extravagant and purchased myself a
birthday present for 4 francs. Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice'. I
had no prose reading with me, and one can hav... Thomas Edward Lawrence John Ruskin The Stones of Venice Print : Book1900-1945 'Scroggs came back from Pontorson by train, but I rode,
[bicycle] and thereby saved 3 francs 50 cent. Another 50 cent.
and I will have paid for my Ruskins. I like his ... Thomas Edward Lawrence John Ruskin The Stones of Venice Print : Book1850-1899 'Sep.Sep at Harborne' Sarah Good James Barrie The Little Minister Print : Book1900-1945 'Much T. E. Lawrence talk whom I knew slightly and always
thought a bore and a bounder and a prig.... Storrs [Sir Ronald,
an official in the British Foreign and Colon... Henry Channon Thomas Edward Lawrence The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Print : Book1900-1945 'Next morning. My Ruskin is better than ever. I will have him
bound in Oxford, or will bind him myself. It gives a most
masterly exposition of the meaning and method ... Thomas Edward Lawrence John Ruskin The Stones of Venice Print : Book1900-1945 '...and in the little bays I have damaged myself on rocks. I had
been reading there on a cliff seat I constructed for about 5
hours on Sunday afternoon, when I woke u... Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Print : Book, 'books' 'with all my books in my hand'1900-1945 'To fill up this rather mixed letter I will give you a sketch of one
of my days here. I wake at 7. and get up at 7.30. At eight I take
"petit dejuner", and after insp... Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Unknown 1900-1945 '"The day was fair and sunny, sea and sky
"Drank its inspiring radiance, and the wind
"Swept strongly from the shore, blackening the waves."
I went to my seat on the c... Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Unknown 1900-1945 'While walking about there before continuing my reading I
fell into a little lake, between two rocks, and I wet all my
legs. It was
"A still salt pool, locked in wi... Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon] [unknown] Unknown 1900-1945 'Tell Arnie [brother] that at Kidwelly I stayed at the Pelican
Hotel, where the prices charged me were only 2/3 of those
given in the C.T.C. handbook'. Thomas Edward Lawrence [n/a] [n/a] The Cyclists' Touring Club Gazette Print : Serial / periodical, Handbook/Gazette1900-1945 '(By the way Yniol's castle is founded on Caerphilly which
Tennyson visited). (See "Geraint and Enid")' Thomas Edward Lawrence Alfred, Lord Tennyson 'Geraint and Enid' Unknown 1900-1945 'I rode to Montbard...and thence here, which is a tiny village
about 15 miles from Vezelay "the grandest Norman church in
Europe" (or outside it I presume) the guide-... Thomas Edward Lawrence [Anon] [Anon] [guide book] Print : Book1900-1945 'Will you if you write to Carcassonne tell me what is happening
in Turkey: the rubbish here that they call newspapers say one
day that movements are taking place amon... Thomas Edward Lawrence [n/a] [n/a] newspapers Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'To my joy there was a book-case in the room and soon I was
engrossed in a book which I later found was Ian Hay's "The
First Hundred Thousand" a fictionalised account... Hymie Fagan Ian Hay The First Hundred Thousand Print : Book1850-1899 'Sep. The story of a hate' Sarah Good Robert Buchanan God and the Man Print : Book1850-1899 'Hon. Canon of Norwich. Vic. of Ipswich S Mary.' Sarah Good J. R. Turnock One Body: The Story of the Church of England Print : Book1850-1899 'May - Autobiography' Sarah Good Frances Hodgson-Burnett The One I Knew the Best of All Print : Book1850-1899 'Australian Bush life' Sarah Good Rolf Boldrewood Robbery Under Arms Print : Book1850-1899 'In Aunt-Judy 1885' Sarah Good Horatia Katharine Frances Gatty Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books Print : Book1900-1945 'April at Scarboro'' Sarah Good William Black A Daughter of Heth Print : Book1850-1899 'May (Stowe Hill)' Sarah Good Rolf Boldrewood The Squatter's Dream Print : Book1850-1899 'Maria Stuart' Sarah Good Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Maria Stuart Print : Book1850-1899 'The Guided Life' Sarah Good George Body The Guided Life Print : Book1850-1899 'Our Village' Sarah Good Mary Russell Mitford Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene... Print : Book1850-1899 'King Lear' Sarah Good William Shakespeare King Lear Print : Book1850-1899 'One of a Covey' Sarah Good Sue Chestnutwood Perkins One of a Covey Print : Book1850-1899 'Harold' Sarah Good Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Harold Print : Book
