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Freeman : 'account of the Bayeux tapestry'

7 December 1879: 'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Read over the fire. First Freeman's account of the Bayeux tapestry, then some of Thackeray's Humorists.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Unknown

Edward Augustus Freeman : Race and Language

'Read Freeman on race and language, which holds well to date, especially in his negation of Austria and Turkey as possible empires. John v Arabic and Homer's "Odyssey" xix.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs      Print: Book

Edward Augustus Freeman : unknown

'Lovely fine day — sat out wrapped up and read Freeman and did Italian with Hugo till he felt uncomfy and went down.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

?Edward Augustus ?Freeman : ?A History of Sicily from the earliest times

'Perfectly fine and calm again. Father read us the finished article [on Trade Unions] to our great admiration. Then we did Italian and I read Sicilian history and a little Arabic. We saw a little land in the morning — it was the Portuguese coast just south of Finisterre. Mr Waugh brought me a note for 100 piastres issued by Gordon in Khartoum in April 1884 which I interpreted. I caught a stuffy cold in the morning sitting out in the wind.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

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