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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of notice, till on my arrival in Moffatt, I discovered...Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand' n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'"I just went down the Post an' when I come back it was as flat as this 'ere wharfside - there was just my 'ouse like-well, part of my 'ouse. My sissus were just making m... [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received two papers from Joe & read in one of them a good account of the proceedings of the Garrick Club could not help wishing I had been at the performance.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selkirk, which as I learn from this day's newspaper (aft...Thomas Carlyle [newspaper]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say it wrong: but when she is sitting on the bed in the m...Esther Julia Ford [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no one's behaviour can have been worse. But they (the new...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of "Waverley" etc.? He said at a public meeting that the secret had been remarkably well kept, consi...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise o...Anne Romilly [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that ship being seen off the Cape in great distress; at le...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'A Gentleman - one Mr Martin a Surgeon - was reproving his Son for relating some Story of a Gentleman's Marriage which he had read in the Newspaper & quoted from Thence a... [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Bird: 'last Monday week, the 29th of December, about half-past nine o'clock in the morning, I was reading the newspaper'Joseph Bird [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas James Francis: 'On the morning of the 17th of April, 1834, I saw three man in conversation several times, as I passed, getti...William Goodwin [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: Philip Farmer: 'Q. How came you here to-day? A. I saw it in the newspaper—a party read the paper to me, about the trial—I unde...Philip Farmer [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for murder: Henry Wignall: 'the 1st of January was Sunday—on the 1st of January I was in my own room, up stairs, reading the newspaper—he was...Henry Wignall [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: William Spicer: 'On the 28th of December I had been at home the whole day, and for a fortnight before, as I was very ill—about ...William Spicer [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for bigamy: Mrs Webb: 'after she was separated from her husband, she read in the newspaper about a marriage being illegal, in consequence of ...Elizabeth Burden [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Ann Hatton: 'On Saturday, the 30th of June, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner Austin brought some thi...Mary Ann Hatton [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: John Peto: 'On Sunday night, the 26th of August, Bostock came to my house, about eight o'clock ... that was just about nine o'clock...William Stubbs [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for forgery: Frederick Cooper: 'I remember reading in the newspaper, that the prisoner was taken into custody'Frederick Cooper [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Gollinos: 'on Saturday morning, the 26th of January, I was reading in the newspaper of the loss of Mr. Platt's plate, in Ru...Robert Gollinos [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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