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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, and a kind of natural courtesy; in short, they are n...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Oliver GoldsmithThe travellerPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of Bracken's "Pocket Farrier", which I look upon as a very complete thing of its kind.'Thomas Turner Henry BrackenThe traveller's pocket-farrier: or a treatise upon...Print: Book
1700-1799Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper.Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus.Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12.Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Marco Polo's Travels which are amusing enough though containing a pretty large collection of absurdities [...]'Benjamin Newton Marco PoloThe Travels of Marco PoloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of the people bating his miracles [...] which was the ...Benjamin Newton Marco PoloThe Travels of Marco PoloPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jean de ThevenotThe Travels of Monsieur de ThevenotPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'Mary Shelley L.F. JauffretTHE TRAVELS OF ROLANDO Containing in a Supposed To...Print: Book
1850-1899I am reading "Maunders Treasury of Geography" a very entertaining work.Albert Battiscombe Samuel MaunderThe Treasury of GeographyPrint: Book
1850-1899I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["]Albert Battiscombe Samuel MaunderThe Treasury of GeographyPrint: Book
1900-1945MS date of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: Sep 2 1922. Also: "The pencil notes in this volume, which are cut off partially in the re-binding of it, are by a previous possessor...George Otto Trevelyan Cicero The treatises of M.T. CiceroPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 6th November. ?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair). Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Mother is ill and expect to have to go to hospital. W...Gerald Moore May SinclairThe Tree of HeavenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Phew! This [ "The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc" ] is fine. Just one word as the curtain falls for the last time.[...]. I'll with your leave keep the MS for 3 days before I read...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Trial of Jeanne d'Arc Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication.'Claire Clairmont The Trial of Thomas Paine,for Certain False, Wicke...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Monday Oct. 29th. [...] The following passage is from Thistlewood's Defence 'A few hours hence and I shall be no more; but the nightly breeze which will whistle over ...Claire Clairmont anonThe Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John...Print: Book
1900-1945Sorry I am late in thanking you for the little book and the friendly inscription. I greatly enjoyed the parodies on those writers I have read.'Joseph Conrad Christopher WardThe Triumph of the Nut and Other ParodiesPrint: Book


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