√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 7 Aug. 1805 the Wordsworths told Lady Beaumont that "We have just read a poem called the Sabbath written by a very... | Wordsworth Family | James Grahame | Sabbath, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, ... | William Wordsworth | James Grahame | Birds of Scotland | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" ... | Patricia Beer | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Kenneth Grahame | [probably The Wind in the Willows etc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Kenneth Grahame | Dream Days | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'. | Fanny Kemble | Grahame | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really fe... | Harriet Martineau | Maria Graham | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had not heard of "Wind in the Willows" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!' | Norman Nicholson | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Kenneth Grahame | Golden Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received yours yesternight with the poem of [italics] the Sabbath [end italics], a good part of which I have alread... | James Hogg | James Grahame | Sabbath, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I finfished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Grahames's wife Gabriela.] Ca... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Impenitent Thief" has been read more than once. I've read it several times alone and I've read it aloud to my w... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | The Impenitent Thief | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now the first sensation of oppression has worn off a little what remains with one after reading the Life of Santa Te... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Bristol Fashion" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Bristol Fashion Pt.2 in Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Guide book simply magnificent Everlastingly good! [sic].I've read it last night having only then returned home.' | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Notes on the District of Menteith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in Seville | Print: Book, see additional comments |
| 1850-1899 | 'I return the pages "To Wayfaring Men". I read them before I read your letter and have been deeply touched.' | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Preface to: Mogreb-el-Aksa: A Journey in Morocco | Manuscript: Sheet, Presumably typewritten pages |
| 1850-1899 | '"Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flatte... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Higginson's Dream | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book [Mogreb-el-Acksa] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Mogreb-el-Acksa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just a word or two about Robert's book. It is a glorious performance.Much as we expected of him. [...] Nothing approa... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Mogreb-el-Acksa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ca -- c'e... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | letter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The thing ["A Paheka" ] in "West.Gaz." is excellent, excellent.' | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | 'A Paheka' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pl... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Family Portraits | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''I hold "Ipane". Hoch! Hurra! Vivat! May you live! And now I know I am virtuous because I read and had no pang of jea... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | The Ipane | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] but now since I've received the "Sat. Review" I've something to write about. The "german Tramp" is not only exc... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | In a German Tramp | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'But as to "Buta" it is altogether and fundamentally good, good in matter--that's of course--but good wonderfully good... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Buta | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read "Cruz Alta" four days ago. c'est tout simplement magnifique. I know most of the sketches, in fact nearly al... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Cruz Alta | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am altogether under the charm of that book ["The Vanished Arcadia"] in accord with its spirit and full of admiratio... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Vanished Arcadia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel so dull and muddle-headed that I daren't even attempt to give you now an idea of the effect the little volume ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Success | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!' | George Crabbe | Maria Graham | Journal of A Residence in India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. F. I. Graham | The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Kenneth Grahame | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading again the "[A] Vanished Arcadia" - from the dedication, so full of charm,to the last paragraph wi... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'. | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Convert (?) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando]de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject ... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Hernando de Soto: together with an account of one of his captains, Gonçalo Silvestre. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This moment I receive "Progress", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat do... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Progress and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read your book ["His People"] with the usual delight and more than the usual admiration.[...] Three times I've g... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | His People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I rea... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Its really good of you to have sent "Faith". Your magic never grows less; each of your prefaces is a gem and my enthu... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Faith | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read a little book of verse entitled "Cage Without Grievance", by a "modern Scot", W.S. Graham. Montgomerie's gift; a... | William Soutar | W.S. Graham | Cage Without Grievance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the subject Gilbert & Sullivan's operas. Mr R.B. Graham read an able paper dealing w... | R.B. Graham | R.B. Graham | [paper on Gilbert & Sullivan] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | R.B. Graham | R.B. Graham | 'Pious Atrocity, The' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Charity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Hatchment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I've just finished "B[ernal] Diaz". The terminal pages of the preface are just lovely with their irresistable refer... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Bernal Diaz de Castillo:Being Some Account of Him Taken From His True History of the Conquest of New Spain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | R.B. Graham | R.B. Graham | [paper on Housman's 'Little Plays of St.Francis'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | Mrs R.B. Graham | Lady of the Marsh, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | R.B. Graham | If Christianity had Won | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751:
'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; bu... | J. Duncombe and others in Cambridge | Graham | epigram | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'.
Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comm... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | Brought Forward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks too for the "Life and Miracles" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but yo... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | A Brazilian Mystic, being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the Carthagena book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I would have written to you before about my delight in "The Conquest of Granada" if it had not been for the beastly s... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | The Conquest of New Granada, being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | | Print: Book |