Reading Experience Database Browse Reader Readings S

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aeschylus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sophocles	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Euripides		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.'	Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant	Heinrich Heine	De l'Allemagne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors...	Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant		[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", a...	Hester Thrale	Joseph Addison	The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form
	1700-1799	'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's work...	Thomas Moore	Maria Edgeworth	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro...	Susan Sibbald	Ann Radcliffe		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim...	Princess Charlotte	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim...	Princess Charlotte	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim...	Princess Charlotte		[memoirs and history]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim...	Princess Charlotte	Anne Plumptre	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few p...	Charles Campbell		[travels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few p...	Charles Campbell		[history]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During the Napoleonic Wars, Scottish cotton-spinner Charles Campbell earned 8s. to 10s. a week, but set aside a few p...	Charles Campbell		[English classics]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".'	Joseph Mayett	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".'	Joseph Mayett		The Two Covenants	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Proselytised by a follower of the mystic Joanna Southcott, he read some of his propaganda but found "Some things that...	Joseph Mayett	follower of Joanna Southcott		Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispen...	Joseph Mayett	Hannah More	The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispen...	Joseph Mayett		The Farmer's Fireside	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Last night sleep departed, I read almost all night Nelsons life of Bp Bull James Clre	James Clegg	Robert Nelson	Life of Dr. George Bull	Print: Book
	1700-1799	At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affect...	James Clegg	Richard Baxter	The Saints Everlasting Rest.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books s...	Joseph Mayett	William Cobbett		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books s...	Joseph Mayett	Richard Carlile		Print: Book
	1700-1799	At night I read some of the lives and characters of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected ...	James Clegg	Richard Baxter	An abridgement of Mr Baxter's life and times. With	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books s...	Joseph Mayett	T.J. Wooler		Print: Book
	1600-1699	August 14. I had read Mr Whately of the new birth, and it affected mee exceedingly, and put mee upon prayer, and searc...	Isaac Archer	William Whately	The New-Birth:or, a treatise of regeneration, deli	Print: Book
	1600-1699	May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits ...	Isaac Archer	Richard Sibbes	The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax	Print: Book
	1600-1699	May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits ...	Isaac Archer	Richard Alleine	Vindiciae Pietatis; or, a Vindication of Godliness	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'the emerald ring' 'it is agem which [...]' [transcribes poem] 'le landon'.	Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan	Laetitia Elizabeth Landon	The Emerald Ring	Unknown
	1800-1849	'happiness is a very common plant...' 'e. smith's fragments' 'greenock'	Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan	Miss Elizabeth Smith	Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady	Unknown
	1800-1849	'the christain life may be compared...' 'e. smith's fragments'. followed by extract ascribed to 'hannah more' 'those ...	Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan	Miss Elizabeth Smith	Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady	Unknown
	1800-1849	'the cause of all sin...' 'e.smith's fragments'. signed 'e.d.'	Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan	Miss Elizabeth Smith	Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady	Unknown
	1800-1849	''extract from the course of time' transcribes from 'true happiness had no localities...' to 'where happiness descendi...	Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan	Robert Pollok	The course of time	Unknown
	1800-1849	'far less shall earth now hastening to decay...' 'world before the flood' 'isle of man June 15th 31'.	Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan	James Montgomery	The world before the flood; a poem in ten cantos	Unknown
	1800-1849	'stanzas for music by the ettrick shepherd' [transcribes 2 stanzas] 'my sweet little...'	Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan	James Hogg	Stanzas for music	Unknown
	1800-1849	'filled with profound reverence...' 'blair vii p.375' and 'since the time that heaven began...' 'blair's ser vii p.26'	Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan	Hugh Blair	Sermons	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Pindar	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Callimachus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Apollonius Rhodius	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Quintus Calaber	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Theocritus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Herodotus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Thucydides	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Xenophon	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aristotle	Politics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aristotle	Organon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lucian	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Athenaeus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aeschylus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sophocles	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Pindar	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Theocritus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Terence	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lucretius	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Catullus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Albius Tibullus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sextus Propertius	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lucan	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Silius Italicus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Livy	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Velleius Paterculus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sallust	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Caesar	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aristophanes	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the ch...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Monk	Biography of Richard Bentley	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Theocritus	Seventh Idyll	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Ben Jonson	The Alchemist	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, in...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Ben Jonson	Catiline	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is ver...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Alexander Pope	The Rape of the Lock	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, f...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Horace	Satires	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Paul Louis Courier	Le Simple Discours
	1800-1849	'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, wit...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Paul Louis Courier	Le Simple Discours
	1800-1849	'The Homes of England' [transcribes text] 'Mrs Hemans'	Augusta Browne	F.D. Hemans	The Homes of England	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Mrs Hemans. Evening Prayer at a girls school' [transcribes text]	Augusta Browne	F.D. Hemans	Evening Prayer at a Girl's School	Unknown
	1800-1849	'The Wings of the Dove. Mrs Hemans' [transcribes text]	Augusta Browne	F.D. Hemans	The Wings of the Dove	Unknown
	1700-1799	at home all day [...] at Oaks I met with Mr Laws practical discourse on christian perfection [...] I am now reading it	James Clegg	William Law	A Practical Traetise Upon Christain Perfection	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the spring of 1826, after getting through Valpy's Delectus, and a part of Stewart's "Cornelius Nepos, " and also a...	Thomas Cooper	Caesar	Commentaries On The Gallic War	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon..."	Thomas Cooper	Xenophon	Memorabilia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the Odes of Anacreon, ..."	Thomas Cooper	Anacreon	Odes of Anacreon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the odes of Anacreon, and then commenced the Iliad....	Thomas Cooper	Homer	The Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Under his instruction -while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'...	Thomas Cooper	Voltaire	Charles the Twelfth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Under his instruction - while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and Moliere's 'Le Bourgeois G...	Thomas Cooper	Moliere	Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"As I thought I could easily learn Italian, I took lessons from Signor D'Albrione... So we read together part one of ...	Thomas Cooper	Goldoni	Comedies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	So we read together ... a part of the beautiful "Gerusalemme Liberata", of Tasso, in that most beautiful tongue.	Thomas Cooper	Tasso	Gerusalemme Liberata	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others. My school prospered for I took c...	Thomas Cooper	Herder	[volume of tales]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others. My school prospered for I took c...	Thomas Cooper	Lessing	[volume of tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Charles was reading Hans Andersen: I wanted the book, asked for it, fussed for it, and finally broke into tears.'	Charles Thomas	Hans Christian Anderson		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Jonathan Swift	Essay on the Fates of Clergymen	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Edward Gibbon	Vindication	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Conyers Middleton	Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Mrs Winn told us our fortunes out of the Almanick, some things to me very strange...	(Mrs) Winn		'Almanack' OR 'Almanick'	Print: Book, almanack
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I took up the Economy of Human Life, and was much pleased with the simplicity, ease and elegance of its style. The Bio...	John Horrocks Ainsworth	Robert Dodsley	The Economy of Human Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to...	John Horrocks Ainsworth	Allan Ramsay	The Gentle Shepherd	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Looked through a volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - read an account of Gordon's Portable Gas Lamp, and of...	John Horrocks Ainsworth		The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it.	John Horrocks Ainsworth	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd.	John Horrocks Ainsworth	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Wholesome dinners produce haviness and ill humour commenced Peveril of the Peak.	John Horrocks Ainsworth	Walter Scott	Peveril of the Peak	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Finished Peveril of the Peak.	John Horrocks Ainsworth	Walter Scott	Peveril of the Peak	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Some three or four times during the reading of the French play...Charles ... neatly, but with becoming hesitation, sp...	Charles Thomas		[French play]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The Iris came this morning, in it there was the following article: at Paris there is proposals for publishing by subsc...	Joseph Hunter		The Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	I wrote out of the Monthly Review, an anecdote of Dr Franklin's [surgeon?] who said that the [king?] was the only gent...	Joseph Hunter		Monthly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	I wrote out of the Gentleman's Magazine the various [games?] assigned for the 9 of diamonds... to which I added my opi...	Joseph Hunter		Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	I will here give an account of the Hymns which I could say ... This I have copied from Mr E[vans] writing in an old hy...	Joseph Hunter		'An old Hymn Book'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Reading "Anedotes of Some Remarkable Persons Chiefly of The Present and Two Preceding Centuries'	Joseph Hunter	William Seward	Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly o	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I drew out of a book entitled 'a genealogical History of the Present Royal Families of Europe' the pedigree of several...	Joseph Hunter	Mark Noble	A Genealogical History of the Present Royal Famili	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Looked at Ainsworth's dictionary for the derivation of all the Christian names; Joseph is derived from the Hebrew of I...	Joseph Hunter	Robert Ainsworth	Robert Ainsworth's Dictionary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of th...	Charles Manby Smith	William Cobbett	A French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the Le	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Have you seen a little volume of Westall's Poems containing a DAY in SPRING, and other detached pieces, with four love...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Richard Westall	A Day in Spring, and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, an...	Sarah Harriet Burney	William Mitford	The History of Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Let us talk of Eugenie and Mathilde. It saddened but did not make me cry. I foresaw it would end like a Turk, nay I am...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Marie-Emilie, Comtesse de Flahaut Adelaide	Eugenie et Mathilde	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I wanted to have sent you a translation of the Epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's, and insert...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	May heavenly Angels their soft wings display And guide you safe thro' ev'ry dangerous way In every step may you most h...	Sophia	Mary Masters	To Marinda at Parting	Unknown
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert	Allgemeine Naturgeschichte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling	Zeitschrift fur speculative Physik	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert	Ansichten von der Nachtseite der Naturwissenschaft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Walter Scott	Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Walter Scott	Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert	Die Symbolik des Traumes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Walter Scott	Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Scougal	The Life of God in the Soul of Man OR The Nature a	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Walter Scott	Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles Scudamore	A Chemical and Medical Report of the Properties of	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Amory	The Life of John Buncle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Augustus Zwick	Calmuc Tartary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edwin Atherstone	The Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and Pa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John and Michael Banim	Tales by the O'Hara Family	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Pietro Metastasio	Opere	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Baxter	Reliquiae Baxteriana	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Leighton	The Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop o	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	La danse des morts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Vermischte Schriften	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Declaration of Principles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Herder	Verstand und Erfahrung	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee	The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers, a	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Haslam	Medical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity, a	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Samouelle	The Entomologist's Useful Compendium	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Shakespeare	Plays [various]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Beaumont	Some Observations upon the Apologie of Dr Henry More	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Oliver Cromwell	His Highnesse the Lord Protector's speeches to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Tindal	The History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Borough of Evesham	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	James MacPherson	The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Milton	Paradise Lost: a poem in twelve books	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Adam Weishaupt	Pythagoras	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Hewitt	[conjecture] Nine Select Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ekkehart	De prima expeditione Attilae	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Shakespeare	Plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Burton	The Anatomy of Melancholy	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee	The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Dunbar	The Poems of William Dunbar	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Hugh Farmer	A Dissertation on Miracles	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	A New Version of the Psalms of David	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Rachel Baker	Remarkable Sermons of Rachel Baker and pious ejaculations	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Aristaenetus	Epistolae graecae	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Ludwig Tieck	Phantasus	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Holty	Gedichte	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edward Thomas Stanley Hornby	Childhood (?)	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Paul de Rapin-Thoyras	The History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Rimius	A Candid Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Herrnhunters	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Daniel Sennert	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Giovanni Boccaccio	Opere (vols I-IV (of 6))	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Vermischte Schriften (vols I-III (of 4))	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Apocalypsis graece Vol II (of 2)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Dante Alighieri	[Divina Commedia]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johannes Cocceius	Opera omnia theologica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Chillingworth	The Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Chillingworth	The Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gilbert Burnet	History of His Own Time	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gilbert Burnet	The History of the Reformation of the Church of En	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Peter Brougham	A Speech on the Present State of the Law of the Country	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Vermischte Schriften (vol II (of 4))	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Donne	LXXX Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Donne	LXXX Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	Einleitung in das Neue Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	Einleitung in das Neue Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	Commentarius in Apocalypsin Joannis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	Commentarius in Apocalypsin Joannis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christopher Harvey	The Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the Temple	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christopher Harvey	The Synagogue, or, the Shadow of the Temple	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Herbert	The Temple and sacred poems and private ejaculations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Herbert	The Temple and sacred poems and private ejaculations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Abraham Cowley	The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles Dallison	The Royalist's Defence	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles Bowker Ash	Adbaston: or Days of Youth	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Amory	The Life of John Buncle, Esq	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Paul Friedrich Richter	Palingenesien von Jean Paul	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Paul Friedrich Richter	Museum von Jean Paul	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Martin Luther	Samptliche Schrifften	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Wordsworth	Benjamin the Waggoner	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Plato	The Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides and Timaeus of Pl	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christoph Friedrich Nicolai	Ueber meine gelehrte Bildung	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Blaise Pascal	Les Provinciales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gometius Pereira	Antoniana margarita, opus nempe physicis medicis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Adam Weishaupt	Ueber Wahrheit und sittliche Vollkommenheit	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus	Ueber die Grunde der menschlichen Erkentniss und der nat?rlichen Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Xenophon	Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the defence o	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann	Geschichte der Philosophie	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Sammlung vorzuglich schoner Gedichte...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Kasper Lodewijk Valckenaer	Diatribe de Aristobulo Judaeo	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Henry Vane the Younger	A Healing Question Propounded and Resolved	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Vaughan	The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe, D.D.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Francois Rabelais	The Works of Francis Rabelais	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Walter Raleigh	The History of the World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Vincent	The Greek Verb Analysed. An Hypothesis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Randolph	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	A Treatise on Toleration	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gerardus Joannes Vossius	Poeticarum Institutionum, libri tres	Print: Book
		[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edward Gibbon Wakefield	A letter from Sydney, the principal town of Australia	Print: Book
		[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Walker	A Dictionary of the English Language	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	James Relly	The Believer's Treasury	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Wall	A Conference between Two Men that had Doubts about Infant-Baptism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Benn Walsh	On the Present Balance of Parties in the State	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Benn Walsh	Popular Opinions on Parliamentary Reform	Print: Book
		[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Reynolds	The Triumphes of God's Revenge against the Cryinge	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jacob Rhenferd	Opera philologica, dissertationibus exquisitissimi argumenti constantia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Daniel Waterland	The Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Paul Friedrich Richter	Jean Pauls Geist oder Chrestomathie der vorzuglich	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Daniel Waterland	A Vindication of Christ's Divinity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Paul Friedrich Richter	Das Kampaner Thal oder uber die Unsterblichkeit de	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Daniel Sandford	The Remains of the Late Right Reverend Daniel Sandford	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Whitaker	The Origin of Arianism Disclosed	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jacopo Sannazaro	Jacobi Sannazarii, patricii neapolitani, opera	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Carl Von Savigny	Of the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gilbert White	The Works, in Natural History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joannes Scapula	Joan. Scapulae Lexicon Graeco-Latinum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Whitfield	A Discourse of Liberty of Conscience...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	Darlegung des wahren Verhaltnisses der Naturphilosphe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christoph Martin Wieland	Comische Erzahlungen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	Denkmal der Schrift von den gottlichen Dingen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	Einleitung zu seinem Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	Philosophie und Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Anderson	The Works of the British Poets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Anderson	The Works of the British Poets	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Karl Leonhard Reinhold	Versuch einer neueren Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsverm?	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christoph Martin Wieland	Wielands Neueste Gedichte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Publius Virgilius Maro	Georgica Publii Virgilii Maronis Hexaglotta	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	August Wilhelm Rehberg	Ueber das Verhaltniss der Metaphysik zu der Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Bateman	A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Berkeley	Siris: a chain of philosophical reflexions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Holy Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Apocryphal New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Walter Birch	A Sermon on the Prevalence of Infidelity and Enthusiasm	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Dyer	Academic Unity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Dyer	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Lucy Hutchinson	Memoirs of the Life of Colonel [John] Hutchinson	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Romeo and Juliet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Parr	A spital sermon preached at Christ Church	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Strype	The History of the Life and Acts of the most Reverend Father in God	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Abraham Parsons	Travels in Asia and Africa	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise".	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Strype	Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Strype	Memorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Caspar Suicerus	Joh. Caspari Suiceri...Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Giuseppe Luca Pasini	Vocabolario Italiano-Latino per uso degli studiosi	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christian Franz Paullini	Christiani Francisci Paullini disquisitio curiosa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Pearson	An Exposition of the Creed	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	The Wisdom of Angels concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	True Christian Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	De coelo et ejus mirabilibus, et de inferno	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	De cultu et amore Dei	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	Oeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	Oeconomia regni animalis, in transactiones divisa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Percival	An Account of the Island of Ceylon	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Percy	Reliques of Ancient English Poetry	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Isaac Taylor	Natural History of Enthusiasm	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jeremy Taylor	The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Alaric Alexander Watts	Poetical Sketches	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Petvin	Letters Concerning Mind	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jeremy Taylor	The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Esaias Tegner	Die Frithiofs-Sage	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Lord Alfred Tennyson	Poems, Chiefly Lyrical	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Saint Teresa	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Nicolaus Tetens	Philosophische Versuche	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Gaisford	Poetae Minores Graeci	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jean de Thevenot	The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir John Pringle	Observations on the Diseases of the Army	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Pringle	African Sketches	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Ludwig Tieck	The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Bryan Waller Procter	Dramatic Scenes and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Pepys	Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Taylor	An Essay on Money	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jeremy Taylor	The Worthy Communicant, a discourse on the nature, effects and blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jeremy Taylor	The Worthy Communicant, a discourse on the nature, effects and blessings consquent to the worthy receiving of the Lord's supper	Print: Book
		[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Plotinus Plotinus	Plotini Platonicorum facile coryphaei operum philosophie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Proclus Proclus	The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles Tennyson	Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces, by Charles Tennyson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Aulus Persius Flaccus	Auli Persi Flacci Satirarum liber	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	Regnum animale anatomice, physice et philosophice	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Charles...seized the list [of prayers for the redemption of sinners] hopefully, and hooted with delight when he found...	Charles Thomas	Aunt Lizzie	Persons for Whom our Prayers are Requested	Print: Serial / periodical, Religious magazine with blank pages for individual prayers
	1800-1849	Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y...	Hugh Stuart Boyd	Gregory	Odes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y...	Hugh Stuart Boyd	Synesius	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare...	mother of Joseph Wright	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare...	mother of Joseph Wright		New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare...	mother of Joseph Wright	Friedrich Klopstock	Messiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci...	Christopher Thomson	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci...	Christopher Thomson	John Milton		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci...	Christopher Thomson	Laurence Sterne		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci...	Christopher Thomson	Samuel Johnson		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Circuit preacher Joseph Barker found that theology simply could not compete with Shakespeare: "What pleased me most ...	Joseph Barker	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more...	Joseph Barker	William Cowper		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more...	Joseph Barker	Alexander Pope		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more...	Joseph Barker	John Dryden		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more...	Joseph Barker	Oliver Goldsmith		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more...	Joseph Barker	James Thomson		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shakespeare incited his appetitie for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they mor...	Joseph Barker	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin...	Joseph Barker	George Gordon Byron		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin...	Joseph Barker	John Milton		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin...	Joseph Barker	Thomas Hobbes		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin...	Joseph Barker	John Locke		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin...	Joseph Barker	Isaac Newton		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel" and ...	Samuel Westcott Tilke	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religiou...	Thomas Jones	Farell Lee Bevan	Peep of Day	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religiou...	Thomas Jones	James Bruce	Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religiou...	Thomas Jones	Samuel Baker	[Probably] 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religiou...	Thomas Jones	Frank Buckland		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	Thomas Jones	Thomas Babington MacAulay		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	Thomas Jones	Oliver Goldsmith	History of England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	Thomas Jones	Thomas Hardy	Far from the Madding Crowd	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	Thomas Jones	Josephus		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	Thomas Jones	Plutarch		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	Thomas Jones	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	Thomas Jones	Samuel Pepys		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	Thomas Jones	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	Thomas Jones	Samuel Johnson	Lives of the Poets	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	father of Thomas Jones		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen...	father of Thomas Jones			Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge an...	Thomas Frost	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge an...	Thomas Frost	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S...	Thomas Frost	Joseph Addison	The Spectator	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, periodical bound into books
	1800-1849	'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S...	Thomas Frost	Charles de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu	The Persian Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S...	Thomas Frost	Thomas Second Lord Lyttelton	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwa...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Bryan Edwards	The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend [ii 89], 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Br...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Hearne	A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, Undertaken ... for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, etc. in the Years 1769-1772	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"W[ordsworth]'s note to Guilt and Sorrow 81 acknowledges a borrowing 'From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-g...	Charles Farish	John Bernard Farish		Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros...	Samuel Bamford	John Milton	L'Allegro	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros...	Samuel Bamford	John Milton	Il Penseroso	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ...	Samuel Bamford	Homer		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ...	Samuel Bamford	Virgil		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ...	Samuel Bamford	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ...	Samuel Bamford	[the great poets]		Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ...	Samuel Bamford		[classic histories]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ...	Samuel Bamford		[voyages]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, ...	Samuel Bamford	William Cobbett	Political Register	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or...	James Keir Hardie	Thomas Carlyle	Sartor Resartus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Witness statement in the trial of James Stewart for theft: James James (Witness): "afterwards I saw the advertiseme...	James James		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial of Sarah Evans for murder Thomas Aris: "The first thing I heard of the child being drown...	Thomas Aris		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for housebreaking/receiving stolen goods: Thomas Davies: "I think it was in the middle o...	Thomas Davies		Morning Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for for theft: Thomas Jones: "reading the 'Daily Advertiser' and finding they were adver...	Thomas Jones		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for for theft: Benjamin Bunn: "I am a pawnbroker and live in Houndsditch... I was readin...	Thomas Jones		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for for theft: Samuel Spencer: "The next day about 11 o'clock I read in the 'Advertiser'...	Samuel Spencer		Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods: Charles Clark: "On the 18th of November, in the f...	Charles Clark		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing: Thomas Burch: "On Monday morning the 7th of July, the prisoner brough...	Thomas Burch		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for fraud: Thomas Douglas: "I saw this advertisement in the Daily Advertiser of the 1st ...	Thomas Douglas		Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Dobree: "I am a pawnbroker: I took in this property of a witness who i...	Joseph Dobree			Print: Handbill
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for burglary: James Gideon: "On the 29th of October, between eight and nine o'clock in t...	James Gideon			Print: Handbill
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for shoplifting: Elias Mordecai: "I set my Basket one Day upon a post, and saw Moses sho...	Elias Mordecai		Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for theft: Josiah Howard: The 19th of May I and three journeyman-packers left work and c...	Josiah Howard		Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: James Palace: "A night or two after I read in the Advertiser a watc...	James Palace		Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Thomas Brown: "I took an axe of Jones the same evening afterwards; ...	Thomas Brown			Print: Handbill
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for murder: Samuel Davis: [in reply to question about length of time he spent in the wat...	Samuel Davies			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: James Collins: "I was sitting near the bar reading the newspaper, when I turn...	James Collins			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Price: "I was standing reading a playbill that was stuck up, the priso...	Joseph Pead			Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for assault: Charles Bradfield: "In the forenoon of Saturday, 4th of October, I went int...	Charles Bradfield			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for theft: Isaac Reeve: "After this I happened to read in the Newspaper of a quart silve...	Isaac Reeve			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for burglary: James Harrison: "I know both prisoners. On the 7th of September, I was in ...	James Harrison			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for burglary: Joseph Jackson: "I come on account of recollecting a circumstance in an ad...	Joseph Jackson			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Defence of prisoner in his trial for theft James Lewis: "...we went to the Gun, and he asked me to go in; the gentl...	James Lewis			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for murder: Joshua Parish: "I know the middle man (Payne); it is near three weeks ago si...	Joshua Parish			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statement in trial for theft: Esther Radford: [Bevan picks up parcel in Pond-street and takes it to Radford...	Esther Radford		Gazetteer and Daily Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Witness statements in trial for theft: James Streeter: "...says I, Mich, how did you come by this, I am afraid you ...	James Streeter			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for burglary: Robinson: "I was reading the newspaper..."	James Robinson			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Thomas Vaughan: "I got up in the morning to breakfast along with the man's...	Thomas Vaughan			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: Charles Fenn: "I went into Mrs Bow's public house, the sign of the Wheat-shea...	Charles Fenn			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: Samuel Leigh: "I lodge at the Elephant and Castle, Holborn. On the 12th of Oc...	Samuel Leigh			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	"[Thomas] Poole read the Appeal in March 1796; writing to Henrietta Warwick on 2 April, he revealed that 'I have latel...	Thomas Poole	Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere	An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Roland	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"[S. T.] C[oleridge] stayed up until one o'clock in the morning to read Tytler's translation of The Robbers ... "	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller	The Robbers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson on 'Thursday Evening December 8th [1808]': 'Mr. De Quincey ... is besi...	Thomas De Quincey	unknown	[Greek book]	Print: BookUnknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1700-1799	William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838: 'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon ...	Francis Wrangham	Juvenal	Satire X	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Percy Bysshe Shelley		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Laurence Sterne	Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Thomas More	Utopia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Herbert George Wells	The World Set Free	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes		[biography of William Penn]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Walt Whitman		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Thomas Babington Macaulay		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	James Anthony Froude		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	John Richard Green		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Thorold Rogers	Six Centuries of Work and Wages	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	Thomas Carlyle	The French Revolution	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"I am translating the Oberon of Wieland," C[oleridge] told [Thomas] Poole, 20 Nov 1797.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christoph Martin Wieland	Oberon	Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sep...	Francis Wrangham	Francis Wrangham	Brutoniad	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799: '[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seeme...	Amos Cottle	unknown	Edda Soemundar hinns Froda	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Coleridge's interest in [Amos] Cottle dated back at least to May 1797, when he read his Latin poem, Italia, vastata ....	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Amos Cottle	Italia, vastata	Unknown
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 18 Novembr [1809]: 'Sara [Hutchinson] has been kept almost constantly busy i...	Sara Hutchinson	William Wordsworth	Introduction to Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, by the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, Rector of East and West Wretham, in the County of Norfolk and Chaplain to the Marquis of Huntly	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 28 February [1810], on departure of Sara Hutchinson after four years with Wordswo...	Sara Hutchinson	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Friend, A Literary, Moral and Political Weekly Paper	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Extract of letter from Thomas De Quincey to Mary Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth ...	Thomas De Quincey	Walter Scott	The Lady of the Lake	Unknown
	1800-1849	Extract of letter from S. T. Coleridge to William Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		[a romance in the style of Ann Radcliffe]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu...	a revolutionary Russian rag merchant	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen...	Thomas Thompson	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen...	Thomas Thompson	William Makepeace Thackeray		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen...	Thomas Thompson	Oliver Wendell Holmes		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen...	Thomas Thompson	Marcus Aurelius	[Meditations]?	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 18 February 1815: 'William and Mary and little Willy paid a visit to old Mrs ...	Miss Knott	William Wordsworth	Excursion, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Statement about juvenile offender: "attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school th...	J.S.		Life of Nelson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Statement about juvenile offender: "attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school th...	J.S.		Gilderoy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Statement about juvenile offender: "attended the Independent Sunday-school three years, also the national school th...	J.S.		[story books]	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Shakespeare	Coriolanus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Hesiod		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Athenaeus		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cato		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Livy		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Sallust		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Tacitus		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Aulus Gellius		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Suetonius		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	De Finibus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Academic Questions	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Tusculan Disputations	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, lum...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	De Finibus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	De Natura Deorum	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument ag...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	De Divinatione	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Ben Jonson	Catiline	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Ben Cicero	Tusculan Disputations	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each suc...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Speeches	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Letters to Atticus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all i...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Second Philippic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier s...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Third Philippic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, exc...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Cicero	Last Philippic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of t...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Euthydemus	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Protagoras	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Protagoras	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Protagoras	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Protagoras	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not kn...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter].	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what te...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Ca...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek l...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	William Wordsworth to Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1819: 'Mr Monkhouse will probably have shewn you the copy of ...	Christopher Wordsworth	William Wordsworth	letter to Revd. John Russell	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: '[Samuel] Rogers read me his Poem when I was in Town about 2...	Samuel Rogers	Samuel Rogers	Human Life, A Poem	Unknown
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Noth...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Gorgias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socra...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plato	Crito	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Joanna Hutchinson, 5 September 1819: 'We have been very comfortable and without the least bustle...	Thomas Monkhouse	J. G. Crump		Manuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Cathrine Clarkson, 19 December 1819: 'I do not know whther I ought to tell you that [Sara Hutchi...	Sara Hutchinson	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth describes daily routine during stay at her brother Christopher's London residence in letter to Mary...	Christopher Wordsworth		prayers	Unknown
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 3 September [1820]: 'How admirable and to me astonishing the ardour and indu...	Thomas Clarkson	Thomas Clarkson	sermon	Unknown
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820: 'The news from Hayti [ie Haiti, where revolution had taken ...	Thomas Clarkson		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	"[Mark L.] Reed [in Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1975] judges that [S. T.] C[oleridge] copied this ...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		An unfortunate Mother to the infant at her Breast	Unknown
	1800-1849	'On 19 April 1809 S[ara] H[utchinson] wrote to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank, "The nicest model of a churn I ever saw...	Sara Hutchinson	John Barrow	Travels into the Interior of South Africa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Charles] Lamb copied ... [John Beaumont, Bart., the elder, "An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont"] into...	Charles Lamb	John Beaumont	An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont	Print: UnknownUnknown
	1800-1849	'[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor...	Sir George Beaumont	John Beaumont	[poems]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'In her letter of 18 Oct. 1811 ... S[ara] H[utchinson] told Mary Monkhouse: "I have been dipping into Bingley's Tour o...	Sara Hutchinson	William Bingley	North Wales: including its scenery, antiquities, customs, and some sketch of its natural history	Print: BookUnknown
	1800-1849	S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short ext...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Bloomfield	Farmer's Boy, The	Unknown
	1800-1849	'In a letter to W[ordsworth] dated 16 April 1815 Lamb remarks: "Since I saw you I have had a treat in the reading way ...	Charles Lamb	Vincent Bourne	Latin Poems	Unknown
	1800-1849	'[In Germany] C[oleridge] read [Frederika] Brun's Chamouny beym Sonnenaufgange, which provided the inspiration for his...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Frederika Brun	Chamouny beym Sonnenaufgange	Unknown
	1700-1799	'C[oleridge] read [George Buchanan] at Cambridge.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Buchanan	[poems]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'C[oleridge] was reading Burnet in 1795 ... '	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Burnet	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram .....	Thomas De Quincey	John Byrom	Epigram on the Feuds Between Handel and Bononcini	Unknown
	1800-1849	'De Quincey ... in a letter to the Wordsworths of 27 May 1809 said that he had read ... [Byron, English Bards and Scot...	Thomas De Quincey	George Gordon, Lord Byron	English Bards and Scotch Reviewers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied an...	Sara Hutchinson	Thomas Campbell	Exile of Erin, The	Unknown
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] read ... [George Carleton, Memoirs] in April [1809] ... '	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Carleton	Memoirs of Captain George Carleton, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] read vol. 1 [of Thomas Clarkson, History ... of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade] in proof in ear...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Clarkson	History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The	Print: proof
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] consulted ... [the Weekly Political Register] while working on the Friend ... '	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Cobbett	Weekly Political Register, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Wu notes that Charles Lamb copied stanzas 20-53 of Charles Cotton, Winter, in letter to Wordsworth of 5 March 1803.	Charles Lamb	Charles Cotton	Winter	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['O...	Charles Lamb	William Cowper	On the Loss of the Royal George	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. ...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Daniel	Hymen's Triumph	Unknown
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. ...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Daniel	Musophilus	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Notebooks i 1002, 1004 and 1005 reveal that, 1-9 Nov. 1801, C[oleridge] was reading a copy of Digby's Two Treatises (...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Kenelm Digby	Two Treatises, in the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soule; is looked into: in way of discovery of the immortality of reasonable bodies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge]was ... reading ... [Dubartas his Second Weeke] in 1807.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Guillaume de Saluste Dubartas	Dubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Part of the Second Day of the II. Weeke	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] read Greville's A Treatie of Human Learning ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Fulke Greville	Treatie of Human Learning, A	Print: Book
		'C[oleridge] read Greville's An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Fulke Greville	Inquisition upon Fame and Honour, An	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... A Treatie of Warres ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Fulke Greville	Treatie on Warres, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... Alaham in March 1810 at Allan Bank.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Fulke Greville	Alaham	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in July-Sept 1809 ... during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently readi...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Herbert	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in ... Mar. 1810, during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading h...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Herbert	Temple, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, Dialogue Between a Mother and Child] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter ...	Charles Lamb	Mary Anne Lamb	Dialogue Between a Mother and Child	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, The Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth]...	Charles Lamb	Mary Anne Lamb	Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "Virgin and Child"] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'	Charles Lamb	Mary Anne Lamb	Virgin and Child	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "On the Same" ("Virgin and Child")] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter o...	Charles Lamb	Mary Anne Lamb	On the Same (Virgin and Child)	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Robert Malthus	Essay on the Principle of Population, An	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'In late 1808 S[ara] H[utchinson] copied the description of the gawlin from [Martin] Martin, pp.71-2, into C[oleridge]...	Sara Hutchinson	Martin Martin	Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge]'s letter to S[ara] H[utchinson] of May 1807 contained a transcription of Marvell's "On a Drop of Dew".'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Andrew Marvell	On a Drop of Dew	Unknown
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Wiliam Gifford	Introduction to The Plays of Philip Massinger	Print: BookUnknown
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ferriar	[essay]	Print: BookUnknown
	1800-1849	'[Thomas De Quincey] got round to reading ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] only in late June or early Ju...	Thomas De Quincey	Hannah More	Coelebs in Search of a Wife	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleri...	Charles Lamb	Hannah More	Coelebs in Search of a Wife	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D...	Chester Armstrong	Daniel Defoe		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D...	Chester Armstrong	Frederick Marryat		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D...	Chester Armstrong	James Fenimore Cooper		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D...	Chester Armstrong	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D...	Chester Armstrong	Jules Verne		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Robert Burns		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Percy Bysshe Shelley		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	John Keats		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Alfred Lord Tennyson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Walt Whitman		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Walter Scott		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Robert Browning		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Charles Darwin		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Thomas Henry Huxley		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong		British Weekly	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Emile Zola		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Henrik Johan Ibsen		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	George Meredith		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Oscar Wilde		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	George Bernard Shaw		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Herbert George Wells		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Arnold Bennett		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong		[Marxist Economics]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...	Chester Armstrong	Aldous Huxley	Brave New World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The L...	a Scottish joiner's son	David Moir	The Life of Mansie Wauch	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' ... C[oleridge] was reading ... [Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria] on arrival at Allan Bank in Sept. 1808 ... '	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Petrarch	De Vita Solitaria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependen...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Pindar	Carmina	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'... C[oleridge]was reading Plato during the mid-1790s ... '	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Plato	Unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... '	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Plato	Parmenides	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[during winter 1801] C[oleridge] read Parmenides and Timaeus "with great care" ... '	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Plato	Timaeus	Print: Book
		'On 16 March 1840 W[ordsworth] told [Henry Crabb] Robinson that "C[oleridge]. translated the 2nd part of Wallenstein u...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller	The Death of Wallenstein	Unknown
	1800-1849	'C[oleridge] was a reader of ... [The Lady of the Lake]: he read Southey's copy in Sept. 1810 ... '	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Walter Scott	Lady of the Lake, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On 18 April 1807, C[oleridge] told Sotheby: "I read yesterday in a large company, where W. Wordsworth was present, ...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Sotheby	Saul, a Poem	Unknown
	1700-1799	' ... James Losh reported in his diary for 4 Sept 1800 that Madoc "is ready for publication ... Southey showed me abou...	James Losh	Robert Southey	Madoc	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'In early Oct. 1810 C[oleridge] wrote to W[ordsworth]: "I send the Brazil which has entertained & instructed me."'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	History of Brazil	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Entered by Coleridge in Wordsworth Commonplace Book: 'O holy peace by thee are only found The passing joys that ever...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joshua Sylvester	O Holy Peace	Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
	1800-1849	'Writing to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank on 19 April 1809, S[ara] H[utchinson] remarked that she had seen a churn "a...	Sara Hutchinson	anon	Courier	Print: Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Southey describes arrival of "literary remains" of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Ki...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Kirke White	["literary remains"]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry...	Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Poems on Various Occasions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for libel; witness reads to the court the offending paragraphs published in newspaper. J...	James Chetham			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statements in trial for coining: John Shobel: "Freeman, the inspector, stood by the fire, reading the newsp...	Joshua Freeman			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statements in trial for theft: George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitec...	Nicholas Benigne Ablin		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statements in trial for coining/forgery: John Limbrick: "I am an officer of Hatton Garden. I was with Read ...	James Clark			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statements in trial for theft: Thomas Stevenson: "...next day he said they [stolen property] were advertise...	Thomas Stevenson		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r...	Samuel Bamford	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r...	Samuel Bamford		[The New Testament]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r...	Samuel Bamford		[tale of Robin Hood]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r...	Samuel Bamford		Jack the Giant Killer	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r...	Samuel Bamford		[Story of St George and the Dragon]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r...	Samuel Bamford	Richard Johnson	The History of The Seven Champions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with...	Joseph Barker	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with...	Joseph Barker		The Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with...	Joseph Barker	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with...	Joseph Barker	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with...	Joseph Barker		[ghost stories]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with...	Joseph Barker		[highwayman stories]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[difficulty of uneducated readers grasping the idea that there could be two versions of a story]. 'Therefore [Thomas C...	Thomas Carter		The Bible - Revelation, Kings, Chronicles, Gospels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Canes: "I was reading in the newspaper at the public house that a man ...	James Canes			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for conspiracy: Rev. Francis Lee: "In May last I saw an advertisement in the Times newsp...	Rev Francis Lee		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness reads letter aloud to court as evidence in trial for assault: James Locke: "I have the letter. (reads) 'To ...	James Locke			Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for highway robbery: Joseph Ortega: "On the 16th of December about a quarter past six o'...	Joseph Ortega			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Husband: "I have heard of his [Bowers] being in custody; I saw it in t...	Thomas Husband			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the ...	Francis Gifford Banner		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for housebreaking: Stephen Davies: "on the 23rd of December he came again -I had the goo...	Stephen Davies			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statements in trial for murder: William Lee: "I am a prisoner in the New prison, Clerkenwell, charged with ...	Samuel Arundel			Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,...	Thomas Thompson	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,...	Thomas Thompson	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,...	Thomas Thompson		[Old Testament]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,...	Thomas Thompson		[tale of Robin Hood]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statements in trial for theft: Lucy Tring: "In the parlour with me and my husband, who was reading the news...	Thomas Tring			Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When h...	Emrys Daniel Hughes	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend o...	[friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon	Annabella Milbanke	[poems]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly...	Francis Place			Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster
	1700-1799	I was sent to another school in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, when I was about seven years of age. At this old woma...	Francis Place		Dillworths Spelling Book	Print: Book
	1700-1799	School hours were from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5. The mode of teaching was this. Each of the boys had a column or half a...	Francis Place		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi...	Francis Place		Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece; in Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi...	Francis Place		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi...	Francis Place	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi...	Francis Place		various religious titles	Print: Book
	1700-1799	It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holida...	Francis Place			Print: Book
	1700-1799	My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ...	Francis Place		various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ...	Francis Place		various	Print: Book
	1800-1849	On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstan...	Francis Place	Francis Place	Autobiography	Manuscript: unpublished memoirs
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown, histories of Greece and Rome	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown, translated works by Greek and Roman writers	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	Tobias George Smollett		Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	Henry Fielding		Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	Robertson	unknown [Robertson's works?]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	David Hume	[Hume's Essays]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		translations from French writers	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown various [anatomy and surgery]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown [relating to the Arts]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown [many magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place	Guthrie	unknown [Guthries Geography]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so...	Francis Place		unknown [Geometry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep...	Thomas Moore	Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of)	[letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep...	Samuel Rogers	Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of)	[letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont...	Francis Place	William Blackstone	Commentaries on the Laws of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont...	Francis Place	Matthew Hale	History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont...	Francis Place		various [Law books]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont...	Francis Place		various [biographies]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place	David Hume	[Essays and Treatises]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place	Adam Smith	Wealth of Nations	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place	John Locke		Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place		various [history]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place		various [voyages]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history...	Francis Place		various [politics and law]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta...	Francis Place		[geometry text]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta...	Francis Place	Williamson	Euclid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I h...	Francis Place	Thomas Paine	Age of Reason	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'En...	Francis Place	William Godwin	Inquiry Concerning Political Justice	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learni...	Francis Place		unknown [French grammar]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never...	Francis Place	Helvetius		Print: Book
	1700-1799	I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never...	Francis Place	Jean-Jacques Rousseau		Print: Book
	1700-1799	I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never...	Francis Place	Voltaire		Print: Book
	1800-1849	I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the...	Francis Place			Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said ...	Augusta Leigh	Annabella Milbanke	[letter to Byron]	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	His words were not manie, yet he read all he sayd to us, a thing very unbecoming the chaire, and which I never before ...	Sir John Trevor	Sir John Trevor	[untitled]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... wer...	Augusta Leigh	Leigh Hunt	The Story of Rimini	Unknown
	1850-1899	"Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald."	Agnes Blanche Hemming	George MacDonald	Alec Forbes of Howglen	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'".	Agnes Blanche Hemming	George MacDonald	Alec Forbes of Howglen	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."	Agnes Blanche Hemming	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book."	Agnes Blanche Hemming	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."	Agnes Blanche Hemming	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair...	Agnes Blanche Hemming	R.D. Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,...	Augusta Leigh	George Gordon Lord Byron	travel journal	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	Sheila read 'The Flight of the Heron' too, but was less impressed. I think she realised how I felt; she once teased me...	Sheila Beer	D.K. Broster	The Flight of the Heron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" ...	Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird	Charles Robert Maturin	Bertram	Unknown
	1800-1849	["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the G...	Mary Russell Mitford	Caroline Clive	The Great Drought	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Caroline Clive	The Queen's Ball: A Poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Henri Balzac	La Recherche de L'Absolu	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Henri Balzac	Eugenie Grandet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Henri Balzac	Modeste Mignon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Dr Kitto	holy verses	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Duffy	Irish Songs and Ballads	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Mirabeau		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Lucas Montigny	Memoires de Mirabeau sa famille et ses ecrits	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Thomas Babington Macaulay	The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'the book that featured most prominently in [Joseph Greenwood's] memoirs was a cheap edition of Robinson Crusoe. "To m...	Joseph Greenwood	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Robinson Crusoe] was Thomas Jordan's favorite book, read through in one sitting at age eleven. The promise of "faraw...	Thomas Jordan	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot...	James Murray	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot...	James Murray	Charles Dickens	[novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot...	James Murray	Robert Michael Ballantyne	[novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot...	James Murray	William Henry Giles Kingston	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Makepeace Thackeray		Print: Book
	1500-1599	In his Childe-hood he was so addicted to those means which his Parents applied him unto, for the implanting in him th...	Thomas Gataker		[various]	Print: Book
	1500-1599	In this Family, partly by his own inclination, and partly by the encouragement of the Governours thereof, he performe...	Thomas Gataker		Scriptures	Print: Book
	1500-1599	About the same time also he read over St. Augustines Meditations, which so affected him, that he wept often in the rea...	James Usher	St Augustine	St. Augustines Meditations	Unknown
	1500-1599	At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of...	James Usher	Sleidans	Book of the Four Empires	Print: Book
	1500-1599	At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of...	James Usher		[various unknown]	Print: Book
	1500-1599	Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he assert...	James Usher	Stapleton	Fortress of the Faith	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	Jonathan Swift		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	Alexander Pope		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	Henry Fielding		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	Samuel Richardson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	Tobias Smollett		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	Oliver Goldsmith		Print: Book
	1800-1849	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	Richard Brinsley Sheridan		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	John Keats		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	Percy Bysshe Shelley		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating		[Greek philosophy]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...	Joseph Keating	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'[Joseph Keating's] initiation into modern literature came when his brother introduced him to Jerome K. Jerome's Three...	Joseph Keating	Jerome K. Jerome	Three Men in a Boat	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ...	Thomas Burke	John Keats	[a minor poem]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ...	Thomas Burke	Alexander Pope		Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ...	Thomas Burke	William Cowper		Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ...	Thomas Burke	Kirke White		Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ...	Thomas Burke	Felicia Hemans		Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ...	Thomas Burke	Samuel Rogers		Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home a...	Old Mrs Simpson	George T Chesney	Battle of Dorking	Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of article
	1850-1899	'Gentlemen. I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound f...	Francis Philips	George T Chesney	The Private Secretary	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Finished the second volume of Mrs Radcliffe's 'Italian'. She is the best writer in her way of anybody I [have?] heard ...	Joseph Hunter	Ann Radcliffe	The Italian	Print: Book
	1700-1799	We got the last volume of the Italian, I think it does not equal the former production	Joseph Hunter	Ann Radcliffe	The Italian	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as ...	Alex Innes Shand	George T Chesney	The Private Secretary	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: 'In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going t...	Thomas Moore		Javanese newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		Home Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	G.E. Farrow	The Wallypug of Why	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		Children's Encyclopaedia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		Hereward the Wake	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		[comics -unknown]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett		Marriage on Two Hundred a Year	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to conti...	Countess Teresa Guiccioli	George Gordon Lord Byron	Don Juan (Cantos I and II)	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of ...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Ford Madox Ford	English Review	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	James Russell Lowell	The Vision of Sir Launfal	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Alfred Tennyson		Print: Book
		Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take...	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Monody on Garrick	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in...	Charles 2nd Earl Grey	unknown	Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira	Manuscript: LetterUnknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be perso...	Douglas Kinnaird	George Gordon Lord Byron	Memoirs	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone throu...	Cassandra Austen	Jane Austen	First Impressions	Manuscript: Book in Manuscript
	1850-1899	'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...	Rose Macaulay	Frederick Marryat	Masterman Ready	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...	Rose Macaulay	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...	Rose Macaulay	Walter Scott	The Talisman	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...	Rose Macaulay	Robert Michael Ballantyne	Coral Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...	Rose Macaulay	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...	Rose Macaulay	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...	Rose Macaulay	Edgar Allan Poe	The Murders in the Rue Morgue	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...	Rose Macaulay	Charlotte Mary Yonge	The Prince and the Page	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson'	Rose Macaulay	Johann David Wyss	Swiss Family Robinson	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ...	Rose Macaulay	Alfred Lord Tennyson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight ...	Rose Macaulay	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Prometheus Unbound	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Ch...	Rose Macaulay	Thomas a Kempis	On The Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro...	Rose Macaulay	John Stuart Mill	probably 'On Liberty'	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro...	Rose Macaulay	Ernest Renan	Life of Jesus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[T.A.] Jackson's tastes had been formed by the old books in his parents' home: "A fine set of Pope, an odd volume or ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Alexander Pope		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog...	Joseph Malaby Dent	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog...	Joseph Malaby Dent	John Milton		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog...	Joseph Malaby Dent	William Cowper		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog...	Joseph Malaby Dent	James Thomson	The Seasons	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog...	Joseph Malaby Dent	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog...	Joseph Malaby Dent	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[J.M. Dent's] cultural contacts broadened when he became an apprentice bookbinder in London, discovering the work of ...	Joseph Malaby Dent	William Morris		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev...	James Murray	Samuel Johnson	Rasselas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev...	James Murray		Everyman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev...	James Murray	Edward Bellamy	Looking Backward: 2000-1887	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tal...	Spike Mays	Jonathan Swift	"Gulliver's Travels"	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tal...	Spike Mays	Daniel Defoe	"Robinson Crusoe"	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tal...	Spike Mays	Charles Lamb	Tales from Shakespeare	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introd...	Thomas A. Jackson	James George Frazer	"The Golden Bough"	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introd...	Thomas A. Jackson		[Greek myths]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 31 August 1800: 'At 11 o'clock [pm] Coleridge came ... We sate and chatt...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christabel	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 5 October 1800: 'Coleridge read a 2nd time Christabel; we had increasing...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christabel	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 22 October 1800: 'Wm. read after supper, Ruth etc.; Coleridge Christa...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christabel	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 4 May 1802, describing excursion to local river and waterfall: 'We [Dor...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	verses	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 16 January 1803, describing visit to Matthew Newton's to obtain gingerbr...	[Miss] Newton	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	My uncle has got the life of Doctor Beattie from the library [Halifax Subscription library?], I have not had time to r...	Samuel Lister	Alexander Bower	An Account of the Life of James Beattie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ...	Rose Macaulay	Richard Hakluyt	Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ...	Rose Macaulay	Joseph Addison	[probably The Spectator]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers bound as volume?
	1900-1945	'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which ...	Rose Macaulay	n/a	Oxford English Dictionary	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Charles Dickens	Little Dorrit	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Rev. Richard H. Barham	The Ingoldsby Legends	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Sir Walter Scott	poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Henryk Sienkiewicz	Quo Vadis	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Rider Haggard	She	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....	Frances Stevenson	Mrs Meek	Ellesmere	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Sir Walter Scott	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Benjamin Disraeli	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Edward Bulwer Lytton	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Percy Bysshe Shelley	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Samuel Johnson	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Joseph Addison	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Richard Steele	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Oliver Goldsmith	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Ralph Waldo Emerson	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	James Russell Lowell	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...	William Robertson Nicoll	Bronte	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'... [William Robertson Nicoll] devoured even more newspapers than books [had grown up with clergyman father's library...	William Robertson Nicoll		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	"In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ...	Thomas Burke		T. P.'s Weekly	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Week...	[a Lancashire man] anon		The British Weekly	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Thomas Burke on reading The Bookman as teenager, in Son of London (1947, 1948): "'I lived through each month for it; a...	Thomas Burke		The Bookman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	At 3 1/4 down the old bank to the library. Miss Maria Browne there. Came up to me to say her sister had so bad a cold ...	Miss Browne	George Gordon Byron	Childe Harold	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a reclu...	Thomas Hardy	Violet Hunt	White Rose of Withered Leaf	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'"I owe more to Scott than to any other writer," [William] Robertson Nicoll stated. "Every year even in the busiest t...	William Robertson Nicoll	Walter Scott	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.'	William Robertson Nicoll	Walter Scott	Rob Roy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favou...	Ernest Raymond	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).'	Joseph Conrad	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walte...	Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh	Charles Dickens	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' ... [F. H. Bradley] appeared as the retired professor, Cheiron, in [Elinor] Glyn's Halcyone (1912), having assiduous...	Francis Herbert Bradley	Elinor Glyn	Halcyone	Manuscript: Codex
	1900-1945	'... [J. M.] Barrie's secretary wrote, "One of his great solaces was Anthony Trollope, whom, like many others, he redi...	James Matthew Barrie	Anthony Trollope	unknown	Print: Book
		'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying...	Sir Walter Raleigh	Anthony Trollope	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it wh...	Douglas Jerrold	Robert Browning	Sordello	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57]. Their father, by reading ...	Thomas Thompson	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...	Christiana Thompson	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...	Christiana Thompson	William Wordsworth	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...	Christiana Thompson	John Keats	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso...	Christiana Thompson	Alfred Tennyson	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As late as the First World War, a Manchester boy could find an epiphany in an old volume of the Journal rescued from ...	'a Manchester boy'	n/a	Chambers's Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Robert Michael Ballantyne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	George Alfred Henty	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Walter Scott	Quentin Durward	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Richard Henry Dana	Two Years Before the Mast	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	David Livingstone	[Travels: perhaps, 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Fridtjof Nansen	[Travels - probably 'Farthest North']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Matthew Peary	[Travels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...	questionaire respondent	Robert Falcon Scott	[Travels in the Antarctic]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Wiliam Shakespeare	The Merchant of Venice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	William Shakespeare	Much Ado about Nothing	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Alexander Pope	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Alfred Lord Tennyson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	John Masefield	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Robert Louis Stevenson	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	A Christmas Carol	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Charles Reade	The Cloister and the Hearth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	Major Barbara	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	John Bull's Other Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	The Doctor's Dilemma	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	Man and Superman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	The Devil's Disciple	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	You Never Can Tell	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	Socialism and Superior Brains	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	Fabian Essays	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	An Unsocial Socialist	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	George Bernard Shaw	The Irrational Knot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	John Galsworthy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Herbert George Wells	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Enoch Arnold Bennett	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Sidney and Beatrice Webb	Industrial Democracy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Oliver Joseph Lodge	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Edward Carpenter	Towards Democracy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Edward Carpenter	The Intermediate Sex	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	John Atkinson Hobson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Alfred Marshall	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...	questionaire respondent	Plato	The Republic	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea...	questionaire respondent	Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree	Poverty, A Study of Town Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea...	questionaire respondent	[unknown]	[basic economics textbook]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea...	questionaire respondent	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	William Shakespeare	[works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Robert Burns	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	John Keats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Walter Scott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	anon	The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	[unknown]	Print: Book
		[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...	questionaire respondent	[unknown]	[various history and biography]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H...	questionaire respondent	Mark Twain	The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H...	questionaire respondent	Emmusska, Baroness Orczy	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H...	questionaire respondent	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Richard Doddridge Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Louisa May Alcott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	David Livingstone	[Travels, probably 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...	questionaire respondent	Charles Darwin	[probably 'The Voyage of the Beagle']	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	Robert Louis Stevenson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	William Morris	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...	questionaire respondent	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At la...	Stan Dickens	[anon]	Aristotle's Masterpiece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At about age fifteen [Joseph Barker] found an old folio on anatomy and surgery by Helkiah Crooke (physician to James ...	Joseph Barker	Helkiah Crooke	[medical folio]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Mark Twain	Tom Sawyer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Mark Twain	Huckleberry Finn	Print: Book
	1900-1945	That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was a...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Washington Irving	Life of Columbus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Nicholas Soyer	The Art of Paper Bag Cookery	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Marcus Aurelius	The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Hall Caine	The Bondman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. Th...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Marie Corelli	Free Opinions	Print: Book, Newspaper
	1900-1945	I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Marie Corelli	Master Christain	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Shakespeare	Shakespeare's Complete Works	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Cullen Bryant	Thanatopsis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Ralph Waldo Trine	In Tune with the Infinite	Print: Book
	1850-1899	In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "...	Herbert Hensley Henson	Robert Browning	A Death in the Desert	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Did you ever come across the "Illustrated Naval & Military Mag."? Genl. Sale-Hill, in the July no. of that periodica...	S.P. Oliver		Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In the course of editing the volume of Lequat for the Hakluyt Society, I have had occasion to make extracts from the ...	S.P. Oliver	Puigre	Journal	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'By leave of the Colonial Office I have obtained copies of a MS journal, never published or edited, kept by Jas Hastie...	S.P. Oliver	Jas (James) Hastie	Journal	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the ...	S.P. Oliver	Andrew Lang	Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cab...	Sir Edward Grey	William Shakespeare	plays	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Have you read (Dilke's?) notice in the "Athenaeum", this day, on Sir Stafford Northcote? Andrew Lang had a most diff...	S.P. Oliver	Dilke	Article on Sir Stafford Northcote in the Athenaeum	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she "began s...	Mrs Humphrey Ward	unknown	[Greek text/s]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a write...	Thomas Burke	George Gissing	New Grub Street	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[William Watson] sent a copy [of "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems"] to [Thomas] Hardy, who replied appreciatively ...	Thomas Hardy	William Watson	Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'... [Thomas Hardy] did once chance a criticism of Lady Grove's description of her brush with an unhelpful shop assist...	Thomas Hardy	Lady Grove	The Social Fetich	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...	Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland	[unknown]	[reports on education in Prussia]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...	Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland	Thomas Huxley	Life	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...	Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...	Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland	[unknown]	[romantic fiction]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt]...	Francis Thompson		The Globe	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)'	Constance Smedley	Louisa May Alcott	Little Women	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on...	Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford	John Ruskin	The Political Economy of Art	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote...	Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford	John Ruskin	Cestus of Aglaia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to...	Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford	John Ruskin	Sesame and Lilies	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the s...	Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford	John Ruskin	Crown of Wild Olives	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tenny...	Mrs Hughes	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Locksley Hall	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ...	Constance Smedley	Henry David Thoreau	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ...	Constance Smedley	Ralph Waldo Emerson	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was...	Constance Smedley	James Russell Lowell		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	"When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at A...	Mrs Humphrey Ward	Mrs Humphrey Ward	Canadian Born	Unknown
	1850-1899	'... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the jou...	Oscar Wilde		Reise-Bilder	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the jou...	Oscar Wilde		Pocket German dictionary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	" Then my beloved read La Morte d'Abel"	Sarah Ponsonby		La Morte D'Abel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Annie Swan [from Leith] ... vividly recalled the occasion when her mother "surprised us all by retiring to her room f...	Mrs Swan	Mrs Henry Wood	East Lynne	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Read the 2d volume of Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature & Art'. It is a pretty little thing, not in the same way as the 'Italian'.	Joseph Hunter	Elizabeth Inchbald	Nature and Art	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very p...	Joseph Hunter	Elizabeth Inchbald	Nature and Art	Print: Book
		Charles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I aske...	Miss Garvice	Stephen Crane	Maggie: A Girl of the Streets	Print: Book
		Charles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I aske...	Charles Garvice	Stephen Crane	Maggie: A Girl of the Streets	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writin...	Samuel Pepys	Dutch Ambassador	[a speech]	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	"Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I ...	Samuel Pepys		[ballad]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	"This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the f...	Samuel Pepys		Declaration of Breda	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill
	1900-1945	13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and...	Leslie Stephen	Thomas Hardy		Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and...	Leslie Stephen		[an article on Shakespeare]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat toget...	Leslie Stephen	Oliver Wendell Holmes		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Do you know that I have just read in a book that my grandfather James Stephen invented the orders in council - which ...	Leslie Stephen			Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it m...	Leslie Stephen		Christie's Faith	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read i...	Leslie Stephen	W Hepworth Dixon	New America	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Talking of books, you will perhaps be in the way of seeing a volume of Essays on Reform just published. You may find ...	Leslie Stephen		[Essays on Reform]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"From your account of the absence of newspapers - on wh. I congratulate you sincerely - you may possibly have heard th...	Leslie Stephen		Newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	"You say you have been reading some French novels lately. I am much given to that amusement though I never read de Mus...	Leslie Stephen		[Some French novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in th...	Francis Wilson			Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with "Come hither Evan Cameron" - and repeate...	William Edmonstoune Ayton	William Edmonstoune Ayton	The Execution of Montrose	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"I read with satisfaction Lowell's poem wh. you sent me. The only fault I find with him is that he occasionally lets h...	Leslie Stephen	James Russell Lowell	Agassiz	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan."	Leslie Stephen	Robert Louis Stevenson	Ordered South	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no co...	Leslie Stephen	Frederick Denison Maurice		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as...	Leslie Stephen	Frederick Denison Maurice		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945	?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...	Leslie Stephen	Robert Browning		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945	?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...	Leslie Stephen	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945	?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...	Leslie Stephen	Alfred Tennyson		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945	?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go...	Leslie Stephen	John Milton		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a cop...	Francis Jeffrey	Margaret Oliphant	Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter toget...	Princess Beatrice	Edna Lyall	We Two	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta...	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Meredith	The Egoist	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	[novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Alexandre Dumas	[novel]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Shakespeare	[works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Michel de Montaigne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Moliere [pseud]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after...	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	George Meredith	Modern Love	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker T...	Thomas Bell	Edward Bliss Foote	Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birt...	Gladys Teal	Marie Stopes	[book on birth control]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou...	Leslie Stephen		The Spectator	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou...	Leslie Stephen		The Pall Mall	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou...	Leslie Stephen		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read withou...	Leslie Stephen		The World	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this ni...	Leslie Stephen	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1850-1899	?And this reminds me by a further association of ideas that you would do well to look ? if you like to have your stoma...	Leslie Stephen	Frederick Farrar	The Life of Christ	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; bu...	Leslie Stephen	William Ernest Henley	Miss Grant	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th centu...	Leslie Stephen		[18th and 19th century sermons]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I go off tomorrow to Cumberland where I shall climb the British Mt Blanc & forget for a short time that there are suc...	Leslie Stephen	James Russell Lowell	Pictures from Appledore	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiri...	Leslie Stephen	Omar Khayyam		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss...	James Elroy Flecker	anon	Land and Water	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illust...	Thomas Hardy	Rider Haggard	Eric Brighteyes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[John] Galsworthy sent [Thomas] Hardy a presentation copy of "The Man of Property" [1906] and, Hardy told Florence He...	Thomas Hardy	John Galsworthy	The Man of Property	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bou...	Thomas Hardy	Stephen Phillips	Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" ... Charles Kingsley ... told ... [its] publisher that ... [Heartsease] was 'the most delightful and wholesome novel...	Charles Kingsley	Charlotte M. Yonge	Heartsease	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real...	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	John Henry Newman	Loss and Gain	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The retired Governor of Madras Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, to whom Mrs [Humphry] Ward read extracts from "Robert Elsm...	Mrs Humphry Ward	Mary Augusta Ward	Robert Elsmere
	1850-1899	'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded...	Mary Augusta Ward	J. Henry Shorthouse	John Inglesant
	1800-1849	'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to m...	Leslie Stephen	John Morley	On Compromise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Milner	Ecclesiastical History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'.	Thomas Babington Macaulay		Xenophon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism,...	Leslie Stephen	W E Gladstone	Ritualism and Ritual	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism,...	Leslie Stephen	Matthew Arnold	Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'.	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Virgil		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I am spending a quiet Sunday morning in Birbeck's smoking room - reading a novel."	Leslie Stephen		[Novel]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Fenelon	Dialogues of the Dead	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis		Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and wit...	Thomas Babington Macaulay		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"It is very like Shirley except that there is no heather & the people are all of them of the Yorkshire kind as describ...	Leslie Stephen	Charlotte Bronte	Shirley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay			Print: Book
	1800-1849	"He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be pa...	Leslie Stephen	Anne Bronte	Tenant of Wildfell Hall	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Boccacio	Decameron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser ...	Leslie Stephen	Francois de La Rochefoucauld	Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from t...	Thomas Babington Macaulay			Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"Rather vexatiously Mat Arnold has sent in an article wh. I must read before it goes in because it is supposed to be h...	Leslie Stephen	Matthew Arnold	Literature and Dogma (possibly)	Manuscript: proofs of article
	1850-1899	We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance."	Leslie Stephen	Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes	The Poet at the Breakfast Table	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though sh...	Leslie Stephen	Charlotte Bronte	Shirley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though sh...	Leslie Stephen	George Eliot	Middlemarch	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as...	Leslie Stephen	Thomas Hardy		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, t...	Leslie Stephen	Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, t...	Leslie Stephen	Matthew Arnold		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, t...	Leslie Stephen	Lowell		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me pe...	Leslie Stephen	George Sand	Les maitres Sonneurs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I a...	Leslie Stephen	William Ernest Henley	Hospital Sonnets	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I a...	Leslie Stephen	William Ernest Henley	Children: Private Ward	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot."	Leslie Stephen	Robert Bulwer-Lytton	Lucile	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Ne...	Leslie Stephen		[biographies]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more...	Leslie Stephen	Robert Browning		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amia...	Leslie Stephen	[a thief]	[comic poem]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	"The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained ...	Leslie Stephen		["The Bear Book"]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I someti...	Leslie Stephen		The Latterday Pamphlets
	1850-1899	"I began Robinson Crusoe with Laura. I think that she will be up to it & we made a pretty good start."	Leslie Stephen	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked ...	Leslie Stephen	Alfred Tennyson	In the Valley of the Cauteretz	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of min...	Leslie Stephen	John Ruskin	Fors [Clavigera]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out eno...	Leslie Stephen	Alphonse Daudet		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out eno...	Leslie Stephen	Plato		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly."	Leslie Stephen			Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy ...	Leslie Stephen	M.G. Lewis	The Monk	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even...	Leslie Stephen		Pall Mall Gazette	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but w...	Leslie Stephen	E. E. Hale	James Russell Lowell and his friends	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and e...	Leslie Stephen	William James	The varieties of religious experience	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev...	Leslie Stephen	Richard Grant White	[on Copyright]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev...	Leslie Stephen	Various	Saturday Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a rev...	Leslie Stephen	Richard Grant White	Washington Adams	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say t...	Leslie Stephen	Henry Sidgwick	Review of Leslie Stephen's The Science of Ethics	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one ...	Leslie Stephen	Edmund Gosse	Life of Gray	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one ...	Leslie Stephen	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ?...	Leslie Stephen	Chauncey Wright	Philosophical Discussions	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my...	Leslie Stephen	Various	Saturday Review, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi...	Leslie Stephen	G. B. Smith	The Brontes	Manuscript: article
	1850-1899	'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi...	Leslie Stephen	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi...	Leslie Stephen	Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'	Leslie Stephen	Charlotte Bronte	Villette	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'	Leslie Stephen	Charlotte Bronte	Shirley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what ...	Leslie Stephen	John Henry Newman	An essay in aid of a grammar of assent	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He [Leslie Stephen's brother] wrote articles for the Pall Mall Gazette all the way out to India; enough, he says, to ...	Leslie Stephen	J.F. Stephen	Pall Mall Gazette, articles	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i...	Leslie Stephen	unknown	[French novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i...	Leslie Stephen	George Sand	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i...	Leslie Stephen	Honore de Balzac	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in ...	Leslie Stephen	William Thackeray		Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but ...	Leslie Stephen	Thomas Carlyle	Shooting Niagara	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy t...	Leslie Stephen	William Shakespeare	Henry VIII	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to ...	Leslie Stephen	Thomas Aquinas		Print: Book
	1850-1899	?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some...	Leslie Stephen	John Ruskin	Fors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say...	Leslie Stephen	Thomas Hardy		Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	?I have received your book and in spite of your permission to abstain, have read it from first to last? My ignorance o...	Leslie Stephen	Herbert Fisher	Studies in Napoleonic statesmanship: Germany	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I fin...	Leslie Stephen	George Eliot	Romola	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquain...	Leslie Stephen	John Ruskin	Praeterita	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquain...	Leslie Stephen	John Ruskin		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed."	Leslie Stephen	Dante Alighieri		Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I ...	Leslie Stephen	Thomas Hardy	Far from the madding crowd	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have to thank you for the ?Wessex Poems? which came to me with the kind inscription and gave me a real pleasure? I ...	Leslie Stephen	Thomas Hardy	The Wessex Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have waited to thank you for your book till I had read it & write now ? before having quite finished ? because I ca...	Leslie Stephen	Herbert Fisher	The Medieval Empire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Another book is Jowett?s life; wh. I have read with a good deal of interest. It is too long & too idolatrous; but see...	Leslie Stephen	Benjamin Jowett	Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the...	Leslie Stephen	F. W. Maitland	History of English Law	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Boswell showed his genius in setting forth Johnson?s weaknesses as well as his strength. But if Boswell had been John...	Leslie Stephen	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Then I called at Lucy Clifford?s. She showed me a short preface she has written to those stories of hers about "World...	Leslie Stephen	Lucy Clifford	Love letters of a worldly woman	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The other day I was reading a life in wh. a biographer calmly states that his hero was imprisoned by the Long Parl[ia...	Leslie Stephen		[a biography]	Unknown
	1850-1899	?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better ...	Leslie Stephen	James Russell Lowell	Democracy and other addresses	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I think you have done Mrs B[rowning] very well. I have read it & put in some savage criticism, marking, however, what...	Leslie Stephen	Anne Isabella Ritchie	'Mrs Browning' (life for the DNB)	Unknown
	1850-1899	?I finished poor old Carlyle last night. Froude?s case is curious. He expresses & I think, really feels, veneration & ...	Leslie Stephen	James A. Froude	Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London 1834-1881	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?the snow left off a bit after lunch & we strolled out for a walk? so after pounding a mile or two out & home along sl...	Leslie Stephen	Plato		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I had Plato in my pocket & intermittently read through the Protagorus - as well as I could - which lasted me till Bri...	Leslie Stephen	Plato	Protagorus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Do you know his [Sir Alfred Lyall's] books? The "Eastern Studies" is, I think, the most interesting work of the kind ...	Leslie Stephen	Sir Alfred Lyall	Eastern Studies, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I...	Leslie Stephen	Sir Alfred Lyall	Verses written in India	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the...	Leslie Stephen	A. J. Balfour	Foundations of Belief	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Another book, by the way, worth a glance is a collection of old S. T. Coleridge?s letters. I have had to write the be...	Leslie Stephen	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I find distraction in writing, with a growing sense that it is not worth the trouble; but at 64 it is too late to lea...	Leslie Stephen	George Santayana	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went ...	Leslie Stephen	Dante Alighieri	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as w...	Leslie Stephen	F W Maitland	History of English Law	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. T...	Leslie Stephen	Swift	sermons	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly be...	Leslie Stephen	John Robert Seeley	Ecce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus Christ	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmilla...	Leslie Stephen	Robert Louis Stevenson	article on Victor Hugo	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel...	Leslie Stephen	Victor Hugo		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel...	Leslie Stephen	Henry Fielding		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly wel...	Leslie Stephen	Samuel Richardson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Have you read Mat Arnold?s letters? Some, I see, are addressed to you? I can imagine old Carlyle taking himself to be...	Leslie Stephen	Matthew Arnold	Letters of Matthew Arnold: 1848-1888	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"I was thinking of Eliot [Norton] the other day. When he was here in the summer he came one day to see Miss Valey. Sh...	Leslie Stephen	Margaret Veley	Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w...	Charles Robert Maturin	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust w...	Charles Robert Maturin	Samuel Richardson	Pamela	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a...	Charles Robert Maturin	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion t...	Charles Robert Maturin	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this...	Charles Robert Maturin	Maria Edgeworth	Belinda	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this...	Charles Robert Maturin	Maria Edgeworth	Comic Dramas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost f...	Charles Robert Maturin	Maria Edgeworth	Tales of Fashionable Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, a...	Charles Robert Maturin	Charlotte Lennox	The Female Quixote	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside a...	Charles Robert Maturin	Richard Cumberland	Arundel	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?Walpole?s Catle of Otranto, though dramatized by Jephson, has few imitations. Clara Reeve?s English Baron was the bes...	Charles Robert Maturin	Clara Reeve	The Old English Baron	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pur...	Charles Robert Maturin	Hannah More	Coelebs in search of a wife	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Upon the whole, this play with the powerful assistance of eminent actors and scenical illusion and burning palaces, a...	Charles Maturin	Richard Lalor Sheil	The Apostate: a tragedy in five acts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Amid these dark middle ages of novel literature, Miss Burney?s Evelina strikes us with the first gleam of ?rescued na...	Charles Maturin	Fanny Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fi...	Charles Maturin	Henry Fielding	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty...	Charles Maturin	Charlotte Smith	The Old Manor House	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an...	Charles Maturin	Ann Radcliffe	The Mysteries of Udolpho	Print: Book
		?The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk.?	Charles Maturin	Matthew Gregory Lewis	The Monk	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.? ?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal...	Charles Maturin	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Le...	Charles Robert Maturin	Thomas Otway	Complete Plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Le...	Charles Maturin	Thomas Southern	Complete Plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??Coleridge, who, en parenthesis, he disliked for a merciless attack on his tragedy. Which the ill success of the ?Rem...	Charles Maturin	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christabel and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, whic...	Charles Robert Maturin	Nathaniel Lee	The Rival Queens, or The Death of Alexander	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In May 1820 Sheridan Knowles produced ?Virginius?. The extraordinary success of that play naturally excited Maturin?s...	Charles Robert Maturin	James Sheridan Knowles	Virginius	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"I can see no difference between his case [Nathaniel Lee] and Shelley or Byron, except that they have method and he ha...	Charles Robert Maturin	Nathaniel Lee		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the g...	Charles Robert Maturin	Sir Walter Scott	complete works to 1820	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??And which of the living poets fulfils your ideal standard of excellence?? ?Crabbe. He is all nature without pomp ...	Charles Robert Maturin	George Crabbe	poetic works	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder tha...	Charles Robert Maturin	Thomas Moore	Complete Poems and Songs	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??And whom do you estimate after Crabbe?? ?I am disposed to say Hogg. His ?Queen?s wake? is splendid and impassione...	Charles Robert Maturin	James Hogg		Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was par...	Joseph Keating		[boys' magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was par...	Joseph Keating		[thrillers]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was par...	Joseph Keating		[Greek Philosophy]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"Another favourite of his was Hogg, whose ballad of "Bonny Kilmery" he had by heart."	Charles Robert Maturin	James Hogg	Bonny Kilmeny	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothin...	Charles Dickens	Barrow	[note on the qualities of tobacco]	Print: Unknown, possibly appeared in newspaper The Morning Chronicle
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	Alexander Pope		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	Henry Fielding		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	Tobias Smollett		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	Oliver Goldsmith		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	Samuel Richardson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	Jonathan Swift		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	Richard Brinsley Sheridan		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	John Keats		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	Percy Bysshe Shelley		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ...	Joseph Keating	William Makepeace Thackeray		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: ...	Thomas Holcroft	Amelia Opie	Adelaide	Manuscript: Play script
	1900-1945	'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism...	James Clunie	Karl Marx	Das Kapital	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism...	James Clunie	Adam Smith	Wealth of Nations	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism...	James Clunie	Charles Darwin	The Descent of Man	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t...	Stan (acquaintance of George Scott)	Karl Marx	Das Kapital	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t...	Stan (acquaintance of George Scott)		Straight and Crooked Thinking	Print: Book
	1800-1849	J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the...	John Gibson Lockhart	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (...	Thomas Carlyle		Blackwoods Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued ...	Thomas Carlyle	various	[histories]	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same ...	Thomas Carlyle	William Wallace	'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it.	Thomas Carlyle	David Hume	History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont...	Thomas Carlyle	Tobias Smollett	History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont...	Thomas Carlyle	Edward Gibbon	Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another oppo...	Thomas Carlyle	David Hume	Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him...	Sarah Osborn		Bible passages	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him...	Sarah Osborn	Joseph Alleine	Alarm for the Unconverted	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's...	Joseph Croswell	Mr. Erskine	[spiritual autobiography]	Unknown
	1700-1799	Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's...	Joseph Croswell	Mr. Erskine		Unknown
	1800-1849	I, who was the reader, had not seen it for several years, the rest did not know it at all. I am afraid I perceived a s...	Lady Louisa Stuart	Henry Mackenzie	The Man of Feeling	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And whe...	Lady Louisa Stuart	Henry Mackenzie	The Man of Feeling	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because...	Louis Battye	Frank Richards	[stories in the Magnet]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because...	Louis Battye	Frank Richards	[stories in the Gem]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Frank Richards	[school stories in the Gem]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Frank Richards	[school stories in the Magnet]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentime...	Frances Burney	Laurence Sterne	A Sentimental Journey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney		novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney	Homer		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney		ancient history	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu...	Frances Burney			Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ...	Frances Burney	Elizabeth and Richard Griffith	A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ...	Frances Burney	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ...	Frances Burney	Samuel Johnson	Rasselas	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Alexander Pope	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Alexander Pope	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	David Hume	The History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Nathaniel Hooke	Roman History	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Conyers Middleton	Life of Cicero	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia...	Frances Burney	Denis Diderot	treatise on music	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Charles Burney on his first reading of Frances Burney, "Evelina": 'I perused the first Vol. with fear and trembling, n...	Charles Burney	Frances Burney	Evelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the World	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On 2 August [1779], Charles Burney at Chessington read ... [The Witlings] aloud to a party which included [Samuel] Cr...	Charles Burney	Frances Burney	The Witlings	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Susanna Burney describes Charles Burney's reading of The Witlings at Chessington on 2 August 1779, to Frances Burney: ...	Charles Burney	Frances Burney	The Witlings	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Frances Burney to Hester Thrale, 22 January 1781, on reading account of Thrale's apperance at court on 18 January 1781...	Frances Burney		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Thrale offered the kind of readings [of work in progress, ie Cecilia] Burney ... most valued, instant impression...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Frances Burney	Cecilia	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783): 'I stood, a favouring muse,...	Frances Burney	Samuel Hoole	Aurelia
	1700-1799	'I have heard Doctor Collier say [wrote Hester Thrale in undated letter] that Harry Fielding quite doated upon his Sis...	Sarah Fielding	Virgil		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...'	The Hon. Stephen Digby	William Falconer	The Shipwreck	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794).	Frances Burney	Ann Radcliffe	The Mysteries of Udolpho	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd...	Frances Burney	Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein
	1800-1849	'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd...	Frances Burney	Catherine Talbot
	1800-1849	'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd...	Frances Burney	Hester Chapone		Unknown
	1800-1849	'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When ...	Frances Burney	Charles Burney	Memoirs	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ...	Frances Burney	Ann Radcliffe	The Mysteries of Udolpho	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ...	Frances Burney	Ann Radcliffe	The Italian	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	n/a	Mercure de France	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	Moliere	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	Gerhart Hauptmann	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	Hermann Sudermann	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	Henrik Ibsen	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	Jonas Lie	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	August Strindberg	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	Honore de Balzac	Eugenie Grandet	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...	James Hanley	Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev	Fathers and Sons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read...	"Jacques", a flax dresser	George Anson	A Voyage Round the World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read...	"Jacques", a flax dresser	James Cook	[Accounts of three voyages round the world]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read...	"Jacques", a flax dresser	James Bruce	Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769,1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read...	"Jacques", a flax dresser	Mungo Park	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, ...	Rosie	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of...	Frances Mary Buss
	1850-1899 1900-1945	' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...	Constance Maynard	John Milton	Sonnets	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...	Constance Maynard	William Cowper	poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...	Constance Maynard	Washington Irving	Orations	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne...	Constance Maynard	Alfred Tennyson	poetry	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): 'When I was a girl I was passionately fond of reading ... I went to stay w...	Phyllis Browne		miscellaneous novels	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by...	Phyllis Browne	Thomas Dick	Christian Philosopher	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philos...	Mary St Leger Harrison		philosophical texts	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philos...	Mary St Leger Harrison		poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N...	Thomas Paley		The Arabian Nights	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N...	Thomas Paley	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N...	Thomas Paley	Homer	The Iliad	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N...	Thomas Paley	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N...	Thomas Paley	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N...	Thomas Paley	Walter Scott	novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter readin...	Harriet Shaw Weaver	George Eliot	Adam Bede	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who live...	Susan Mitchell	George Moore	A Mummer's Wife	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945	'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'	George Douglas Campbell		poetry
	1850-1899	' ...[Lady Frances Balfour] was forbidden to read the second volume of ... [Uncle Tom's Cabin] "but human nature canno...	Lady Frances Balfour	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she ...	Christine Longford	Susan Warner	The Wide, Wide World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	John Milton	Complete poetry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Dante Alighieri	Divina Commedia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Torquato Tasso	Gerusalemme Liberata	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Homer	The Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Homer	The Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Virgil	The Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Lucan	Pharsalia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Aeschylus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Sophocles		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Euripedes		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Ovid		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Tacitus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Xenophon		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Herodotus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...	Frances Power Cobbe	Thucydides		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe	Anquetil du Perron	Zend Avesta	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe	Sir William Jones	Institutes of Menu	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe	Diogenes Laertius		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe		translated ancient philosophical texts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,...	Frances Power Cobbe		Biographical Dictionary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Edward Gibbon		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	David Hume		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Tindal		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Collins		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Voltaire		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Marcus Aurelius		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Seneca		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Epictetus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Plutarch	Moralia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Xenophon	Memorabilia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....	Frances Power Cobbe	Plato		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale		The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale		Fraser's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	Symington		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	J. A. Froude	History of England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale		The Bible and Modern Thought	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	Joseph Butler	Analogy of Religion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale		Memorials of Fox	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	Bancroft	The American Revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	Rollin	Ancient History	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	Waddington	Church History	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	Paley	Works	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	John Locke	An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe...	Louisa Martindale	Mrs Jameson	Characteristics of Women	Print: Book
	1850-1899	" .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain ...	Mary Augusta Arnold	John Ruskin	Modern Painters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'".	Mary Augusta Arnold		Texts in/on early Spanish	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines...	Frances Ridley Havergal	William Cowper		Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	" ... [Mrs Layton (b. 1855)] remembers, when she was in service, and about sixteen, being lent some 'trashy books' by ...	Mrs Layton		popular serial fiction	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	In one place in which she worked as a servant, where "Mrs Layton's" reading approved of: "she became particularly keen...	Mrs Layton		travel writing	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	"[Jessie] Boucherett (b. 1825) ... 'one day ... caught sight, on a railway bookstall, of a number of the Englishwoman'...	Jessie Boucherett		The Englishwoman's Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	" ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei...	James Buchanan		The Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei...	James Buchanan		The Arabian Nights	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... Barbara Bodichon ... used to remember with delight the books whch James Buchanan, their father's friend and thei...	James Buchanan	Emanuel Swedenborg		Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Harriet Shaw Weaver, as an adolescent, found Leaves of Grass 'a liberating influence and could even read it on Sunday...	Harriet Shaw Weaver	Walt Whitman	Leaves of Grass	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		feminist writings	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		works on political science	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		works on economics	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		works on psychology	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ...	Viscountess Rhondda		works in anthropology	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: e...	Viscountess Rhondda	Havelock Ellis	The Psychology of Sex	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Mrs Reonold [had been] 'especially cheered and encouraged' by reading a life...	Mrs Reonold		Life of Joan of Arc	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone ...	Viscountess Rhondda	Edna Lyall	novels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'V.S. Pritchett's "popular educator" was the literary section of the Christian Science Monitor: "It was imbued with th...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	n/a	Christian Science Monitor	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read bey...	Thomas Wood	n/a	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read bey...	Thomas Wood	Charles Rollin	Ancient History	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams		The Gem	Print: Serial / periodical, comic
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams		Magnet, The	Print: Serial / periodical, comic
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams		[Sexton Blake Stories]	Print: Serial / periodical, comics
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	George Alfred Henty		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	Robert Michael Ballantyne		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	Frederick Marryat		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	James Fenimore Cooper		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	Mark Twain		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	Charles Dickens		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	Walter Scott		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	Anne/Charlotte/Emily Bronte		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	George Eliot		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	William Prescott	Conquest of Peru, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	William Prescott	Conquest of Mexico, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...	James Williams	Geoffrey Chaucer	Canterbury Tales, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposi...	Charles Dickens	Henry Torrens [Sir]	Field exercises and evolutions of the army	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I send you by George (who in Fred?s absence on business, is kind enough to be the bearer of this) the volume which con...	Charles Dickens	Samuel Johnson	An account of the life of Mr. Richard Savage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du system...	Thomas Carlyle	Simon-Pierre Laplace	Exposition du systeme du monde	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned asid...	Thomas Carlyle	Simon-Pierre Laplace	Exposition du systeme du monde	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned asid...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir John Leslie	Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis, and Plane Trigonometry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forc...	Thomas Carlyle	Charles Bossut	Mecanique	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was fool...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Moore	Lalla Rookh	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was fool...	Thomas Carlyle	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold (Canto IV)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in ...	Thomas Carlyle	Dr Chalmers	Title unknown	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second t...	Thomas Carlyle	Dugald Stewart	Philosophy of the Human Mind	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame scho...	Joseph Gutteridge		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame scho...	Joseph Gutteridge		public house and shop signs	Manuscript: Signboard
	1800-1849	"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstam...	James Watson		notice of political meeting	Print: Poster
	1900-1945	A volume of sermons, marked with dates and what appears to be a system of initials - possibly some sort of reminder? E...	James Walker Harper	Fidelis, pseud.	Thirty short addresses for family prayers or cottage meetings by Fidelis author of 'Simple preparation for the Holy Communion' containng addresses by the late Canon Kingsley, Rev. G.H. Wilkinson and Dr. Vaughan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line, telling us he had heard Cobbett's register read lately, where...	[A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon	William Cobbett	Political Register	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'At church twice today as usual; the Parson at his work amongst the children, armed with a huge octavo which he called...	'The Parson'	Thomas Secker	Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England	Print: Book
	1500-1599 1600-1699	"According to [James] Johnstoun, his supplement [to Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia] grew out of his affection...	James Johnstoun	Sir Philip Sidney	The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia	Unknown
	1500-1599 1600-1699	" ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, de...	Sir John Suckling	William Shakespeare	The Rape of Lucrece	Unknown
	1800-1849	Peter J. Manning, "Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829": "Charles Lamb, perusing the notices blazoning the annuals forthc...	Charles Lamb		literary advertisements	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,...	John Stuart Mill	William Wordsworth	poetry	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	[n/a]	[a Latin-English Dictionary]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Robert Ingersoll	[speeches on agnosticism]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Self Reliance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Washington Irving	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Edgar Allan Poe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Walt Whitman	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Mark Twain	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	William Hazlitt	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	John Locke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Immanuel Kant	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Sigmund Freud	Psychoneurosis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Lafcadio Hearn	Life and Literature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Henri Bergson	Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h...	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Arthur Schopenhauer	The World as Will and Idea	Print: Book
	1900-1945	"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses many of the volumes in his collection of books about spiritualism and parapsychologic...	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	L. Margery Bazett	After-Death Communications	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... [S. T. Coleridge] in a copy of Gerhard Voss's Poeticarum institutionum, libri tres (1647): 'I have looked thro' ...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gerhard Voss	Poeticarum Institutionum, libri tres	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, ha...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Godwin	Abbas	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, ha...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	Joan of Arc	Unknown
	1850-1899	" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in go...	James Henry Leigh Hunt	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Meditations	Print: Book
	1700-1799	H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ...	General James Wolfe	Thomas Gray	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
	1700-1799	In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about th...	Francis Douce	John Whitaker	History of Manchester	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent h...	Samuel Richardson	Lady Bradshaigh	annotations to Samuel Richardson, Pamela
	1700-1799	"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent h...	Samuel Richardson	Lady Bradshaigh	annotations to Samuel Richardson, Clarissa	Manuscript: annotations in printed text
	1700-1799	"Samuel Johnson ... annotated a copy of a religious work in 1755 so he could exchange views with a woman he loved, Hi...	Samuel Johnson		religious work	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	"Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's ...	Walter Savage Landor		Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a v...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Jane Austen	novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less ful...	Samuel Smiles	Gerald Massey	Lyrics of Love	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less ful...	Samuel Smiles	Gerald Massey	Songs of Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"It so happened that a retired Scotch physician, who had settled in the town, chanced to read this notice, and, intere...	a Scotch physician	Falcon Harmonic Society	Notice of a Burns Supper	Print: Poster
	1800-1849	'The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Horne Tooke is a dirty dog - he gives the derivation of such words! - There sits Mr Wilbraham two hours every morning...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Horne Tooke	Epea Pteroenta, or the Diversions of Purley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading, and am enchanted with The Lady of the Lake. It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors,...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	The Lady of the Lake	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne	Letters of Madame de Sevigne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Rabutin de Bussy in his little way, is also delightful...'	Sarah Harriet Burney	Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy	Les Lettres de Messire Roger de Rabutin	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters...'	Sarah Harriet Burney	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne	Letters of Madame de Sevigne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters and since then read Anquetil's "Louis XIV Sa Cour et le Regent" - A mo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Louis-Pierre Anquetil	Louis XIV, Sa Cour et le Regent	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have opened no other book, save the "Monthly Review" and "Appendix" since I came home... A book that I am sure woul...	Sarah Harriet Burney	n/a	The Monthly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'[Has heard story of Wellington] Is not this like the Irish Nurse in Ennui [this word underlined]? Emma told me when I...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Maria Edgeworth	Tales of Fashionable Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I wanted to have sent you a translation of the epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's...'	Sarah Harriet Burney	Adelaide Filleul, Countess de Flahaut	Eugenie et Mathilde	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been with a nice little party of college friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing b...	Sarah Harriet Burney	William Shakespeare	[plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you seen the little book, 'Cottage Dialogues', by Mrs Leadbetter. Edgeworth's notes are lively and [nationally] ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Mary Leadbetter and Maria Edgeworth	Cottage Dialogues Amongst the Irish Peasantry	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	S. T. Coleridge, annotation to Schelling: "'A book, I value, I reason & quarrel with as with myself when I am reasonin...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	F. W. J. von Schelling		Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Joseph Milner	History of the Church of Christ	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... [S. T. Coleridge's] copy of Quentin Durward includes a note that reveals his sense of public duty as an annotato...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Walter Scott	Quentin Durward	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"Coleridge's many notes to Jeremy Taylor's Polemicall Discourses include some addressed to the author directly ('A sop...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jeremy Taylor	Polemicall Discourses	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na...	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Nathaniel Wraxall	Historical Memoirs of My Own Time	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na...	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na...	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Samuel Johnson	Letters	Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na...	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Retrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and their Consequences, which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years have Presented to the View of Mankind	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Na...	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Observations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	" ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] voluminously annotated a Bible for [William Augustus, Lord] Conway's mother."	Hester Lynch Piozzi		The Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson discusses extensive annotations by Hester Lynch Piozzi in 1818 copy of Rasselas in the Houghton Library,...	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Samuel Johnson	Rasselas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Le Sage	Gil Blas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Robert Southey	Thalaba	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Elizabeth Montague	[essay on Shakespeare]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	unknown	History of James I	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.	Thomas Babington Macaulay	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Hebrew Melodies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was alwa...	Thomas Babbington Macaulay	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Walter Scott	Lay of the Last Minstrel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Walter Scott	Marmion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Xenophon	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837'	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Xenophon	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Xenophon	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834. The second in January and the begin...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginn...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginn...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Plautus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: Copious marginal updates throughout the text. Many relate to entries and are linked to the item by an * ...	James Ker	John Burke	A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire ?	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: copious annotations throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by an...	James Ker	Edmund Lodge	The peerage of the British Empire, as at present existing, arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility ? to which is added a view of the baronetage of the three kingdoms	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's co...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Wordsworth	annotations on Shakespeare's sonnets in The Works of the British Poets	Manuscript: annotations in printed text
	1800-1849	"In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Es...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Malthus	Essay on the Principle of Population	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"By ... [January 1804 Coleridge] ... had probably ... begun to write brief notes, appreciative and explanatory, in cop...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Browne		Print: Book
	1800-1849	"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, w...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Daniel	The History of the Civil War	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"[Charles] Lamb must have spoken dismissively of [Samuel] Daniel's poem The History of the Civil War, but Coleridge, w...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Daniel	The History of the Civil War	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Charles Lamb's response to reading marginal comments by S. T. Coleridge in his copy of Samuel Daniel's Poetical Works,...	Charles Lamb	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	annotations to Samuel Daniel's poetry	Manuscript: annotations in printed text
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's presentation of a copy of Richard Field, Of the Church, annotated by himself, to...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Field	Of the Church	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, ...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Barry Cornwall	Dramatic Scenes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, ...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles Tennyson Turner	Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	H. J. Jackson discusses Leigh Hunt's responsive annotations, including personal reminiscences and observations, as wel...	James Leigh Hunt	James Boswell	Life of Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of te...	John Gibson Lockhart	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and in...	Thomas Frognall Dibdin		Illustrated Chatterton	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Bonar Law told him that "his sister had been a very great admirer", but that since this book she had "done with" him.'	Miss Law	Arnold Bennett	Pretty Lady, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: ms notes on binding pages: (1) "an English verb has/ not above six or seven/ different ... /whereas a fr...	Miss Erskine	Robert Lowth	A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well ...	Sir Walter Raleigh	Horace Walpole	Castle of Otranto	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...	Sir Walter Raleigh	Silvio Pellico	Prisons	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.'	Sir Walter Raleigh	n/a	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I am reading Martineau ["Types of Ethical Theory"] and like it, indeed I think I shall leave of writing this and go on.'	Sir Walter Raleigh	James Martineau	Types of Ethical Theory	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am reading Wordsworth with one of the younger classes but it is difficult to explain to people of purely Indian ass...	Sir Walter Raleigh	William Wordsworth	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read Helps's Realmah yesterday and the day before. [...] His essays are old-womanish. I have to "set a paper" on th...	Sir Walter Raleigh	Arthur Helps	Realmah	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I re...	Sir Walter Raleigh	Walt Whitman	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed...	Sir Walter Raleigh	Robert Louis Stevenson	The Black Arrow	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin...	Sir Walter Raleigh	[unknown]	[Life of Scott]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin...	Sir Walter Raleigh	Samuel Rogers	Pleasures of Memory	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.'	Sir Walter Raleigh	Plato	Banquet	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands...	Chester Armstrong	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands...	Chester Armstrong	John Ruskin	Modern Painters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands...	Chester Armstrong	John Ruskin	The Seven Lamps of Architecture	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson discusses copy of John Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) annotated by Eliza Loui...	Eliza Louisa Emmerson	John Clare	Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great lands...	Chester Armstrong	John Ruskin	The Crown of Wild Olives	Print: Book
	1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributio...	Francis Palgrave	Alfred Russel Wallace	Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A con...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	T. J. Mathias	Pursuits of Literature	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes annotations (including corrections and updatings to text and notes) by Francis Hargrave in copy of...	Francis Hargrave	Edward Coke	The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; or, A Commentary upon Littleton	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	Adam Smith	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	David Ricardo	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	Herbert Spencer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	Thomas Henry Huxley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	John Stuart Mill	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	Ralph Waldo Emerson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	William Morris	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	George Bernard Shaw	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	Herbert George Wells	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...	Joseph Toole	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a vo...	Samuel Parr	John Morfitt	poems in poems including Lines on Hatton	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a vo...	Samuel Parr	Joseph Weston	poems including Written on Returning from Lichfield	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally bel...	James Leigh Hunt	William Wycherley	Plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally bel...	Charles Lamb	William Wycherley	Plays	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays ...	John James Raven	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada"	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"Thomas Gray's copy of William Verral's Complete System of Cookery contains several marks and additions, allegedly in ...	Thomas Gray	William Verral	A Complete System of Cookery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by i...	Hester Lynch Piozzi		The Imperial Family Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817)...	Hester Lynch Piozzi	James Andrew Pettit	Anecdotes, &c Ancient and Modern	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes that Coleridge wrote "an extraordinary set of notes ... designed to help [Robert] Southey with a r...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	James Sedgwick	Hints to the Public and Legislature, on the Nature and Effect of Evangelical Preaching	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage...	Thomas Browne	Paracelsus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Coleridge's 1811 annotation of Charles Lamb's copy of Donne's Poems, in which he wrote "'N.B. Spit...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Donne	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes 1818 letter from S. T. Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green in which, "having mentioned Novalis's Heinr...	Joseph Henry Green	Novalis	Heinrich von Ofterdingen (vol 2)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Thomas Hardy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Joseph Conrad	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Herbert George Wells	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Arnold Bennett	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	John Galsworthy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Edith Wharton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be...	Herbert Ernest Bates	Willa Cather	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama...	Thomas Percy	Gerard Langbaine	An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691)	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"When John Brand had a copy of his Observations on Popular Antiquities (1777) interleaved to take materials for a revi...	Francis Douce	John Brand	Observations on Popular Antiquities	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotation of James Granger, Biographical History (1779).	Francis Douce	James Granger	Biographical History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The...	Francis Douce	John Whitaker	The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The...	Francis Douce	John Whitaker	The History of Manchester	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.'	Frances Burney	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'But my dear, what a book! I am ashamed of it! I have read it right through and because I would not conceal from you t...	Frances Boscawen	Denis Diderot	Les bijous indiscrets	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasi...	Frances Burney	Thucydides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ...	Frances Burney	Cicero	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by the...	James Watson		[A history of Europe]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by th...	James Watson		[A history of England]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passingalong Briggate one even...	James Watson	n/a	[a 'bill' advertising a meeting].	Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster
	1800-1849	'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro...	James Watson	Johann Lorenz von Mosheim	An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roma...	James Watson	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro...	James Watson	David Hume	The History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". S...	Frances Burney	James Cook	Voyage to the Pacific Ocean	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She ...	Frances Burney	Marie de Sevigne	letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ...	Frances Burney	Samuel Johnson	Life of Waller	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patron...	Frances Burney	Hannah More	Coelebs in search of a wife	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro...	Frances Burney	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro...	Frances Burney	Samuel James Arnold	The Creole	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro...	Frances Burney	Lady Morgan	The Missionary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'	Frances Burney		some new novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'	Frances Burney	William Godwin	Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In 1782 Hester Thrale read the Spectator to her daughters, who found hilariously improper the "Idea of a Lady saying ...	Hester Thrale	Joseph Addison	The spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Consta...	stepson of Anna Larpent	Sutherland	Tour of Constantinople	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Wordsworth	Prelude, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	William Cowper		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to ...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	John Ruskin	Modern Painters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	George du Maurier	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	W.J. Locke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q...	Victor Sawdon Pritchett	Hilaire Belloc	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Riceyman Steps' had brought him new prestige; it was read by lords and barbers, and Conrad was reported to say that ...	Joseph Conrad	Arnold Bennett	Riceyman Steps	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...	Leslie Paul	Thomas Stearns Eliot	The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...	Leslie Paul	Thomas Stearns Eliot	The Waste Land	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...	Leslie Paul	David Herbert Lawrence	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...	Leslie Paul	James Joyce	Ulysses	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...	Leslie Paul	[unknown]	John O' London's	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...	Leslie Paul	[n/a]	The Nation	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...	Leslie Paul	William MacDougall	Psychology	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...	Leslie Paul	F.A. Servante	Psychology of the Boy	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c...	Seamus MacManus		popular chapbooks	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mary Martin came to live with me at 30s per year. Read "The Conscious Lovers" in the even.'	Thomas Turner	Richard Steele	The Conscious Lovers	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This day made an end of instructing Miss Day. Read part of "The Spectator"; prodigiously admire the beauties pointed ...	Thomas Turner		The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I at home all day. Read part of Hervey's "Meditations".'	Thomas Turner	James Hervey	Meditations among the tombs: in a letter to a lady	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At home all day a-writing. In the even read "The Universal Magazine" for December; think the following observations w...	Thomas Turner		The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'At home all day. In the even read the 9th book of "Paradise Lost".'	Thomas Turner	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the 10th book of "Paradise Lost" in the even.'	Thomas Turner	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At home all day. In the even read the 11th and 12th books of "Paradise Regained", which I think is much inferior for ...	Thomas Turner	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even began Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant". Read his "Life" and the "Eulogium" on it by M. Fountenelle. ...	Thomas Turner	Joseph Pitton de Tournefort	Voyage into the Levant	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".'	Thomas Turner	Joseph Pitton de Tournefort	Voyage into the Levant	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After supper finished "The Tragedy of Cato".'	Thomas Turner	Joseph Addison	Cato, A Tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".'	Thomas Turner	Joseph Pitton de Tournefort	Voyage into the Levant	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After supper read the "Tragedy of Macbeth", which I like very well.'	Thomas Turner	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work...	Thomas Carlyle	William Roscoe	Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of a simple thing called "The West Country Clothier" and, notwithstanding the meanness of the l...	Thomas Turner	anon	The West County Clothier	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'In reading "The History of England" I find that England first took that name under Egbert the 1st monarch of England ...	Thomas Turner	anon	The History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Found in "The History of England" that England was first divided into counties, parishes, etc. in King Alfred's reign...	Thomas Turner	anon	The History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'	Thomas Turner	William Derham	Physico-Theology	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'	Thomas Turner	Christopher Smart	On the eternity of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Not at church all day, neither looked in any book all day except "The Tatler".'	Thomas Turner		The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", in which I find some very agreeable stories, in particular o...	Thomas Turner		The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", which I think the oftener I read the better I like it. I thi...	Thomas Turner		The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Came home about 7 o'clock; read several numbers in the 4th volume of "The Tatler".'	Thomas Turner		The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In the even read Derham's "Sermons at Boyle's Lectures", wherein I find a man evacuates as much in one day by insensi...	Thomas Turner	William Derham	Physico-Theology	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even T Davy brought a p[ai]r Shoes for my nephew and stayed and Supp'd w[i]th us and I read him the 4th of Til...	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'In the evening read Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant", where I find the Turks think the dead are relieved by pray...	Thomas Turner	Joseph Pitton de Tournefort	Voyage into the Levant	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen...	Thomas Turner	William Derham	Physico-Theology	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen...	Thomas Turner	Christopher Smart	On the immensity of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature ...	Maria Josepha Holroyd	Germaine de Stael	Delphine	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are...	Frances Burney			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. C...	Frances Burney			Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'On Christmas day of 1756 he read seven of Tillotson's Sermons during the day and evening.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Unknown
	1700-1799	'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'	Thomas Turner		unknown sermon	Unknown
	1700-1799	'In reading the "Odyssey" last night among many curious passages these two lines I think applicable to the present tim...	Thomas Turner	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Elles and I read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Joseph Fuller Jun. And Tho. Durrant drank some Coffee with me... to whom I read One of Tillotson's Sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Unknown
	1700-1799	'in the Even Tho. Davy at our House to whom I read the 4th Book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".'	Thomas Turner	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printin...	anon ("others")	Giles Widdowes	Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan	Print: Book, proof copy
	1600-1699 1700-1799	Adrian Johns notes 17th-century bookseller Thomas Bennett (d. 1706)'s practice of reading "'Useful Discourses'" to his...	Thomas Bennett		"useful Discourses"	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'"	Samuel Pepys		books on laws and statutes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot,...	Francis Bishop		The Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read "The Merry Wives of Windsor" wherein I think the genius of the author shows itself in a very conspicuous manner ...	Thomas Turner	William Shakespeare	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant" wherein I find the following remark: They breed (says...	Thomas Turner	Joseph Pitton de Tournefort	Voyage into the Levant	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read 2 books of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Pope.'	Thomas Turner	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Came home about 8.10. Read part of Homer's "Odyssey".'	Thomas Turner	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read the writings of a farm called Chillys in Mayfield, which was entailed to Mrs Virgoe's father and his...	Thomas Turner			Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'After supper read the 13th book of Homer's "Odyssey", wherein I think the soliloquy which Ulysses makes when he finds...	Thomas Turner	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "the siege of Jerusalem" from Ta...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Siege of Jerusalem, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "The Siege of Jerusalem" from Ta...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sarah Harriet Burney read Ariosto with "delight", but "Here and there he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Ariosto		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Tho. Davy came in after supper and stayed with us about 2 1/2 hours. He and I looked over Gordon's "Geographical Gram...	Thomas Turner	Patrick Gordon	Geography anatomized: or a compleat geographical grammar	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read several numbers of the "Freeholder" which I think is a proper book for anyone to look into at this c...	Thomas Turner		The Monitor; or the British Freeholder	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'At home all day... In reading Homer's "Odyssey", I think the character which Menelaus gives Telemachus of Ulysses, wh...	Thomas Turner	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Saw in the Lewes newspaper of this day that on Saturday last there was several explosions heard in the bowels of the ...	Thomas Turner		Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes Journal	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Read some of "The History of England".'	Thomas Turner		The History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read part of Hervey's "Theron and Aspasio".'	Thomas Turner	James Hervey	Theron and Aspasio: or, a series of dialogues and letters upon the most important and interesting subjects	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This afternoon very bad with tooth-ache. Read the newspaper wherein I find the nation is all in a ferment upon the ac...	Thomas Turner		[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'In the evening read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read one of Tillotson's sermons and which I think a very good one.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public on behalf of Admiral Byng wherein he is clearly proved to be no...	Thomas Turner	[Byng]	An appeal to the people: containing the genuine and entire letter of Admiral Byng to the Secr[etary] of the Ad[miralt]y
	1700-1799	'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public in behalf of Admiral Byng ...I also read Bally's poem on the wi...	Thomas Turner	George Bally	The Wisdom of the Supreme Being	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read part of Locke's "Essay on Human Understanding", which I find to be a very abstruse book.'	Thomas Turner	John Locke	An essay concerning human understanding	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read 4 of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even Tho. Davy sat with us about 3 hours and to whom and in the day I read 7 of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even in reading the "Lewes Journal" I found the following remarkable character, which I admire not for the dic...	Thomas Turner		Lewes Journal	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'In the even read a sermon preached at this church on the 1st of August 1716 by the Rev. Mr Richard Haworth on the won...	Thomas Turner	Richard Haworth	[Sermon]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Read in the day part of Burkitt's "Poor Man's Help or Young Man's Guide", which I think the best book I ever read of ...	Thomas Turner	William Burkitt	The poor man's help and the young man's guide	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In perusing an abridgment of the "Life of Madame de Maintenon" in "The Universal Magazine" for March, I find the foll...	Thomas Turner		The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'This day read in the "Gazette" of the 20th instant that the King of Prussia had on the 6th instant gained a complete ...	Thomas Turner		The London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Today in reading "The London Magazine" for May, I find the following description of a comet that is shortly expected ...	Thomas Turner		The London Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Read part of "The Universal Magazine" for June wherein I find the following receipt recommended (in an extract from D...	Thomas Turner		The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In reading Josephus's "Jewish Antiques" I find his opinion was (or at least it was a prevailing notion in his time) t...	Thomas Turner	Flavius Josephus	The antiques of the Jews	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the evening read one of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even Tho. Davy to our house, to whom I read a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr James Hervey, A.M., rector of Wes...	Thomas Turner	James Hervey	The time of danger, and the means of safety; to which is added, the way of holiness. Being the substance of three sermons preached on the late public fast days	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of the 5th volume of "Medical Essays and Observations", published at Edinburgh by a society of ...	Thomas Turner	anon	Medical Essays and Observations, revised and published by a society in Edinburgh	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is referen...	Magdalene Sharpe Erskine	Alexander Macaulay	A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Tho. Davy at our house in the even, to whom, and in the day, I read 6 of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read the play of "Tamerlane", wrote by Rowe, which I think a very good play; the character of Tamerlane i...	Thomas Turner	Nicholas Rowe	Tamerlane	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'About 5.40 I set out to the house from which John Carter was this day buried in order to read the will of the decease...	Thomas Turner	John Carter	[will]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1700-1799	'In reading "The Gazette" for the 22nd instant I find the King of Prussia, with about 20,000, has beat the combined fo...	Thomas Turner		The London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'In the day read part of several new almanacs which came down today, and I doubt but few will be sold by reason of the...	Thomas Turner		[almanacs]	Print: Broadsheet, almanac
	1700-1799	'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading o...	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading o...	Thomas Turner	William Sherlock	A practical discourse concerning death	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'...in the even read part of Sherlock upon death.'	Thomas Turner	William Sherlock	A practical discourse concerning death	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: ms note at foot of p.8 of Appendix: 'J. Claver ...[ J. Clavering is the first signatory of the letter on...	N.S. Cornith	Joseph Price	Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; on the latter part of the late report of the Select Committee on the state of justice in Bengal. With some curious particulars and original anecdotes concerning the forgery committed by Maha Rajah Nundcomar Bahadar[...]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	"When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar posi...	Isaac Newton	John Flamsteed	astronomical calculations (lunar positions)	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	" ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed corresp...	Charles Babbage	Abraham Sharp	shorthand writings	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'This day completed the reading of Sherlock on death and which I esteem a very plain, good book, proper for every Chri...	Thomas Turner	William Sherlock	A practical discourse concerning death	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the day read part of some "Monitors" lent me by Mr Calverley, but which paper the author endeavours to point out t...	Thomas Turner		The Monitor; or the British Freeholder	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Tho. Davy to our house in the evening to whom I read two nights of "The Complaint", one of which was the Christian tr...	Thomas Turner	Edward Young	The Complaint: or night thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock...	Thomas Turner	Edward Young	The Complaint: or night thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock...	Thomas Turner	William Sherlock	A practical discourse concerning death	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even finished reading of Horneck's "Great Law of Consideration", which I think a very good subject, and I am t...	Thomas Turner	Anthony Horneck	The great law of consideration; or, a discourse, wherein the nature, usefulness and absolute necessity of consideration, in order to a truly serious and religious life is laid open	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive...	Thomas Turner	Daniel Dobel	Primitive Christianity propounded; or an essay to revive the ancient mode or manner of preaching the gospel
	1700-1799	'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive...	Thomas Turner		The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'We dined on the remains of Wednesday and yesterday's dinners with the addition of a cheap kind of soup, the receipt f...	Thomas Turner		The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man".'	Thomas Turner	Richard Allestree	The new whole duty of man, containing the faith as well as the practice of a Christain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the day read part of Burn's "Justice".'	Thomas Turner	Richard Burn	The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Leadbetter's "General Gauger".'	Thomas Turner	Charles Leadbetter	The royal gauger; or gauging made perfectly easy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sh...	Thomas Turner	Richard Allestree	The whole new duty of man, containing the faith as well as the practice of a Christain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sh...	Thomas Turner	William Sherlock	A practical discourse concerning death	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read part of "The London Magazine" for February.'	Thomas Turner		The London Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Collins's "Peerage of England".'	Thomas Turner	Arthur Collins	The peerage of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the day read part of the 1st volume of "The Peerage of England".'	Thomas Turner	Arthur Collins	The peerage of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read part of "The Peerage of England".'	Thomas Turner	Arthur Collins	The peerage of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even finished reading Wake's "Catechism", which I think is a very good book and proper for all families, there...	Thomas Turner	William Wake	The principles of the Christain religion explained in a brief commentary upon the church catechism	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read the 6th book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".'	Thomas Turner	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read the 12th and last book of Milton's "Paradise Lost", which I have now read twice through and in my op...	Thomas Turner	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This day I saw in the "Lewes Journal", which was an extract from "The Gazette", that our troops under the command of ...	Thomas Turner		Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes Journal	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I completed the reading of Gay's "Fables", which I think contains a very good lesson of morality; and I think the lan...	Thomas Turner	John Gay	Fables	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read part of Salmon "On Marriage".'	Thomas Turner	Thomas Salmon	A critical essay concerning marriage	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even finished reading Salmon "On Marriage", which I think to be a very indifferent thing, for the author appea...	Thomas Turner	Thomas Salmon	A critical essay concerning marriage	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "history of Florence"...	Sarah Scott	Francis Lord Bacon	essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence a...	Sarah Scott	Sarah Fielding	David Simple	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"...	Sarah Scott	Michel de Montaigne	Essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"...	Sarah Scott	Niccolo Machiavelli	History of Florence	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"...	Sarah Scott		an account of the government in Venice	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"...	Sarah Scott	Thomas Randolph	his answer to Christianity not founded on argument	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I ha...	Samuel Richardson	Samuel Richardson	Pamela	Manuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel
	1700-1799	'Methinks, Sir, Mr Pope might employ his Time, and his admirable Genius better than in exposing Insects of a Day: For...	Samuel Richardson	Alexander Pope	Dunciad	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'what a charming instance have you given me, good sir, of the Restoration of [your health], if I may be permitted to i...	Samuel Richardson	Aaron Hill	Fanciad	Manuscript: Unknown, Richardson is about to print the manuscript
	1700-1799	'[I am] pleased with Mr Whitehead's Essay on Ridicule, a Piece which shews the Goodness of the Author's Heart, so much...	Samuel Richardson	William Whitehead	Essay on Ridicule	Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I have bought Mr Pope over so often, and his "Dunciad" before his last new-vampt one, that I am tired of the Extrava...	Samuel Richardson	Alexander Pope	Dunciad	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot...	Mrs Heylin	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version
	1700-1799	'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot...	Miss Cheyne	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version
	1700-1799	'While I read [your letter], I have you before me in person: I converse with you and your dear Anna, as arm in arm you...	Samuel Richardson	Sophia Westcomb	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter, Unknown
	1700-1799	'There was no need to bespeak my Patience, nor anything but my Gratitude, on reading such a Letter as you have favoure...	Samuel Richardson	Lady Bradshaigh	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done...	Samuel Richardson	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done...	Samuel Richardson	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find t...	Samuel Richardson	Pliny the Elder	[observations and transcriptions from work]	Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore
	1700-1799	'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi...	Samuel Richardson	Abraham Cowley		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi...	Susanna Highmore	Abraham Cowley		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha...	Susanna Highmore	Edmund Spenser		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha...	Samuel Richardson	Edmund Spenser		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Josephus's "Jewish Antiques".'	Thomas Turner	Flavius Josephus	The genuine works of Flavius Josephus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the evening read part of the "Jewish Antiques".'	Thomas Turner	Flavius Josephus	The genuine works of Flavius Josephus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After I came home, I read part of "The London Magazine" for October, as also a poor empty piece of tautology called "...	Thomas Turner		The London Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'After I came home, I read part of "The London Magazine" for October, as also a poor empty piece of tautology called "...	Thomas Turner	anon	A Serious Address to the Public, concerning the most probable means of avoiding the dangers of innoculation
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Wiseman's "Chyrurgery".'	Thomas Turner	Richard Wiseman	Several Chirurgical Treatises	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Addison's "Evidences of the Christian Religion".'	Thomas Turner	Joseph Addison	The evidences of the Christian Religion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even and the day read two of Tillotson's sermons and part of the 2nd volume of Hervey's "Meditations".	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even and the day read two of Tillotson's sermons and part of the 2nd volume of Hervey's "Meditations".	Thomas Turner	James Hervey	Meditations among the tombs: in a letter to a lady	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read the extraordinary "Gazette" for Wednesday, which gives an account of our army in America, under the ...	Thomas Turner		The London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Derham's "Physico-Theology".'	Thomas Turner	William Derham	Physico-Theology	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even and the day read 6 of Bishop Sherlock's sermons, which I think extremely good, there being sound reasonin...	Thomas Turner	Thomas Sherlock	Sermons on various subjects, moral and theological, now first published	Print: 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 Bracken	The traveller's pocket-farrier: or a treatise upon the distempers and common incidents happening to horses upon a journey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read Gibson on lukewarmness in religion, and a sermon of his entitled "Trust in God, the best remedy agai...	Thomas Turner	Edmund Gibson	The evil and danger of lukewarmness in religion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read Gibson on lukewarmness in religion, and a sermon of his entitled "Trust in God, the best remedy agai...	Thomas Turner	Edmund Gibson	Trust in God the best remedy against fears of all kinds	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read one of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even Tho. Davy at our house, to whom I read three of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Young's "Night Thoughts".'	Thomas Turner	Edward Young	The complaint or night thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'...read part of Drelincourt on death and in the even one of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'...read part of Drelincourt on death and in the even one of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	Charles Drelincourt	The Christian's defence against the fears of death	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the morning read part of a book entitled "A Defence of Plurality of Church Benefices", but I cannot be persuaded b...	Thomas Turner	Henry Wharton	A defence of pluralities, or, holding two benefices with cure of souls	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even Mr Tipper read to me part of a -I know not what to call it but "Tristram Shandy".'	Thomas Tipper	Laurence Sterne	Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read part of Young's "Estimate of Human Life".'	Thomas Turner	Edward Young	A vindication of providence; or, a true estimate of human life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me ...	Samuel Richardson	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me ...	Samuel Richardson	Joseph Addison	The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Have you seen two volumes called "Deism Revealed"? 'Tis a well written piece, and much approved here. I think it is n...	Samuel Richardson	Philip Skelton	Ophiomaches: or, Deism Revealed	Manuscript: Unknown, MS of work Richardson printed
	1700-1799	'I wish you would cannonade this N[ewto]n. I cannot bear, that another of Apollo's genuine Offspring should pass down ...	Samuel Richardson	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'You guess that I have not read "Amelia". Indeed I have read but the first volume. I had intended to go through with i...	Samuel Richardson	Henry Fielding	Amelia (1st vol.)	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I have read through Lord Orrery's History of Swift. I greatly like it.'	Samuel Richardson	Lord Orrery	Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Swift	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent...	Frances Anne Kemble	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sam. Jenner drank tea with me, and to whom in the evening I read two of Tillotson's sermons.'	Thomas Turner	John Tillotson	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I ...	Thomas Turner	William Shakespeare	As you like it	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the evening wrote my London letters and read Shakespeare's "As you Like It" and "Taming a Shrew", both of which I ...	Thomas Turner	William Shakespeare	The taming of the shrew	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After the fatigue of the day was over, I read part of Shakespeare's "Works".'	Thomas Turner	William Shakespeare	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Shakespeare's "Works", which I think extreme good in their kind.'	Thomas Turner	William Shakespeare	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Beveridge's "Thoughts".'	Thomas Turner	William Beveridge	Private thoughts upon religion digested into twelve articles, with practical resolutions form'd thereupon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read several political papers called "The North Briton", which are wrote by John Wilkes Esq., member for ...	Thomas Turner	John Wilkes	The North Briton	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ...	Samuel Richardson	Marcus Tullius Cicero		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ...	Samuel Richardson	Conyers Middleton	History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ...	Samuel Richardson	Colley Cibber	The Character and Conduct of Cicero Considered	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I remember once to have seen a little collection of letters and poetical scraps of Swift's, which passed between him ...	Samuel Richardson	Jonathan Swift	[letters and poetical scraps]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do ...	Samuel Richardson	Charlotte Lennox	The Female Quixote	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do ...	Samuel Richardson	Charlotte Lennox	The Life of Harriet Stuart, Written by Herself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ...	Charles Manby Smith	Tom Paine	Age of Reason	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ...	Charles Manby Smith	Bishop Watson	Apology for the bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my moth...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...	Charles Manby Smith	William Cobbett	[French Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...	Charles Manby Smith	[unknown]	[French pocket dictionary]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	Telemaque	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French ...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	[newspaper advertisements]	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	Moniteur	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	"'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a...	Charles Manby Smith	Dr D of Prospect Villa	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'One morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a...	Mrs Smith	Dr D of Prospect Villa	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with m...	Charles Manby Smith	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'By the middle of March 1831, I ...	Charles Manby Smith	Dr D	[manuscript of his book]	Manuscript: manuscript of book
	1800-1849	'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and le...	Charles Manby Smith	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'My excellent mother had a fair education - at all events she could read and write fairly well - and she was often ask...	Sarah Tinsley		[letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live ...	Thomas Burt	Benjamin Franklin	The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live ...	Thomas Burt	Frederick Douglass	Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'That would be in the year 1852, when I was fifteen. About the same time I read "The White Slave" and the autobiograph...	Thomas Burt	Richard Hildreth	The white slave, or memoirs of a fugitive	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to...	Thomas Carlyle	Horace Benedict Saussure	Voyage dans les Alpes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Baptiste Biot	Traite de Physique	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next le...	Thomas Carlyle	Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein	'Considerations on the French Revolution'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have ofte...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Jameson	Unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much consci...	Thomas Carlyle	Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein	Considerations Sur La Revolution Francaise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much consci...	Thomas Carlyle	Horace Benedict Saussure	Voyages dans les Alpes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grie...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Sylvain Bailly	Memoires D'un Temoin De La Revolution	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I am very charmed, my dear Mr Edwards, with your sweet Story of a Second Pamela. Had I drawn mine from the very Life,...	Samuel Richardson	Thomas Edwards	[letter relating story of a real life 'Pamela']	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'Did you never, madam, wish for Angelica's Invisible Ring, in Ariosto's "Orlando"? - I remember when I first read of i...	Samuel Richardson	Ludovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder...	Samuel Richardson	Lady Bradshaigh	'Determinta'	Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing
	1700-1799	'I have nothing to say in favour or disfavour of the Shakespeare illustrated. Some pieces are not calculated for more ...	Samuel Richardson	William Shakespeare	[illustrated, edited version]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet...	Samuel Richardson	Lady Bradshaigh	[comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'You did not tell me before, that you had read "the Hermit" and "Alfrida". There are charming Things in both. I read ...	Samuel Richardson	David Mallett	Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them...	Samuel Richardson	William Mason	Elfrida	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A bookseller made me a present of 2 vols of a piece intituled, A Journey thro' Life. My wife and girls, and Miss Co...	Miss Collier	Sarah Scott (attrib)	A Journey Thro' Every Stage of Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give...	Samuel Richardson	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de Sevigne	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give...	Samuel Richardson		The History of Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give...	Samuel Richardson	Ninon de Lenclos	Letters of Ninon de Lenclos to the Marquis of Sevigne	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Does your Ladiship see The Adventurer? I buy it; but have not had time to read but here and there one; But purpose fr...	Samuel Richardson	John Hawkesworth	Adventurer, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen...	Thomas Turner	Christopher Smart	On the omniscence of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen...	Thomas Turner	Christopher Smart	On the power of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One of my aunts, living some two miles away, I discovered had a copy of Bunyan's immortal dream. The Bible and the pi...	Thomas Burt	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ...	Thomas Burt	John Milton	Aeropagitica	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence...	Thomas Burt	William Cowper	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence...	Thomas Burt	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence...	Thomas Burt	John Milton	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence...	Thomas Burt	Alexander Pope	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence...	Thomas Burt	William Wordsworth	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B...	Thomas Burt	[n/a]	British Controversionalist	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B...	Thomas Burt	[n/a	Popular Educator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B...	Thomas Burt	[n/a]	Educational Course	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B...	Thomas Burt		Historical educator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila...	Samuel Bailey	Archibald Alison	History of Europe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila...	Samuel Bailey	Alexander van Humboldt	Cosmos	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?[William Ritson] was a lover of books ? specially fond of poetry. He lent me about this time a paper-backed copy of B...	Thomas Burt	Phillip James Bailey	Festus: A poem	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...	Thomas Burt	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...	Thomas Burt	William Shakespeare	Measure for measure	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...	Thomas Burt	William Shakespeare	Love's Labour's Lost	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...	Thomas Burt	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...	Thomas Burt	William Shakespeare	Othello	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...	Thomas Burt	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I...	Thomas Burt	[n/a]	The Cornhill Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of Englan...	Thomas Burt	Thomas Babbington Macaulay	History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had...	Thomas Burt	William Wordsworth	Lucy Gray	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had...	Thomas Burt	William Wordsworth	We are seven	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav...	Thomas Burt	William Wordsworth	The Daffodils	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From b...	Thomas Burt	[n/a]	Newcastle Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar ...	Thomas Turner	John Nicholl	The execrable practice of buying and selling livings commonly called Simony: in a sermon	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar ...	Thomas Turner	James Walder	The ax laid to the root; or, a preservative against the erroneous doctrines of the Methodists; candidly offered to the consideration of all Christians	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even, read some "Universal Magazines".'	Thomas Turner		Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In the afternoon and even read part of Burnet's "History of the Reformation" which I esteem a very impartial history,...	Thomas Turner	Gilbert Burnet	The history of the reformation of the Church of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of the "London Magazine" for July, in which I find a great many excellent pieces, more than I e...	Thomas Turner		The London magazine; or, gentleman's monthly intelligencer	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In the even read part of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Alexander Pope, which I like very well, the language being ...	Thomas Turner	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry James, November-early December 1887: "I must break out with the news that I can't bear...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry James	Portrait of a Lady	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life by Mr Mallet" perhaps you...	Samuel Richardson	William Mason	[items in Dodsley's Miscellanies]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life" by Mr Mallet perhaps you...	Samuel Richardson	David Mallett	[Life of Bacon]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro'...	Samuel Richardson	David Hartley	[passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The princi...	Samuel Richardson	John Hawkesworth	[items in Cave's Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I am employing myself at present, in looking over & sorting, & classing my Correspondencies and other Papers. This, w...	Samuel Richardson	various authors	correspondence and other papers	Manuscript: Letter, letters and papers
	1700-1799	'With us, the "Centaur not fabulous" has met with a pretty good Reception; tho' some good People wish that it had less...	Samuel Richardson	Edward Young	The Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Friend on The Life in Vogue	Manuscript: Unknown, printed by Richardson so presumably read in MS
	1700-1799	'I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not ap...	Samuel Richardson	Joseph Warton	An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not app...	Samuel Richardson	Thomas Browne	Christian Morals	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not app...	Samuel Richardson	Fulke Greville	Maxims, Characters and Reflections	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them...	Samuel Richardson	Sarah Fielding	Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David Simple	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Who is this Yorick? you are pleased to ask me. You cannot, I imagine have looked into his books: execrable I cannot b...	Samuel Richardson	Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic...	Rosamond Lehmann	Hans Andersen	[fairy tales]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic...	Rosamond Lehmann	Edith Nesbit		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic...	Rosamond Lehmann	Comtesse de Segur	Les Petites Filles Mod?les	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic...	Rosamond Lehmann		[adult novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do"...	Rosamond Lehmann	Thomas Hardy	[poem in the London Mercury]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do"...	Rosamond Lehmann	Rupert Brooke	[poem(s) in the London Mercury]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...	Rosamond Lehmann	Aldous Huxley		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...	Rosamond Lehmann	David Herbert Lawrence		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...	Rosamond Lehmann	William Alexander Gerhardi(e)		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...	Leslie Runcimann	William Alexander Gerhardi(e)		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...	Leslie Runcimann	Aldous Huxley		Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley...	Leslie Runcimann	David Herbert Lawrence		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Steeped in the fiction of the last century ("I was singularly ill read in fiction published in the twentieth century"...	Rosamond Lehmann		[nineteenth century fiction by women]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Lehmann's novel "Dusty Answer" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of...	Rosamond Lehmann	May Sinclair	Life and Death of Harriet Frean	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ...	Rosamond Lehmann	Virginia Woolf	Roger Fry: A Biography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ...	Rosamond Lehmann	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Through her old friendship with Stephen Tennant, Rosamond became devoted to his lover, Siegfried Sassoon, whose work ...	Rosamond Lehmann	Siegfried Sassoon		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Thomas Stearns Eliot		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Roy Fuller		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Wystan Hugh Auden		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Cecil Day Lewis		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	William Faulkner		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Ford Madox Ford		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Ivy Compton Burnett		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Sylvia Townsend Warner		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Elizabeth Bowen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business...	Rosamond Lehmann	Jean Rhys	Voyage in the Dark	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[Rosamond Lehmann wrote in her memoir, "Swan at Evening"] "I took down and re-read "The Four Quartets", the sublime, u...	Rosamond Lehmann	Thomas Stearns Eliot	The Four Quartets	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s...	Thomas Burt	Adam Smith	Wealth of Nations	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s...	Thomas Burt	John Stuart Mill	Political Economy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t...	Thomas Burt	George Eliot	Adam Bede	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t...	Thomas Burt	John Ruskin	Crown of Wild Olive: Three lectures on work, traffic and war	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t...	Thomas Burt	John Ruskin	Sesame and Lilies	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among t...	Thomas Burt	John Ruskin	Modern Painters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Another great book which I bought in those days was Gibbon?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Bohn?s edition i...	Thomas Burt	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma...	Thomas Burt	Todd	Student's Manual	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma...	Thomas Burt	Channing	[volume of essays eg. on Milton, Napoleon and Fenelon]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the "London Journal", a highly spiced periodic...	Thomas Burt	[n/a]	London Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was fini...	Thomas Catling	[n/a]	Psalms	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t...	Thomas Catling	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?The first book which attracted my particular notice was "The Pilgrim?s Progress", with rude woodcuts; it excited my c...	Samuel Bamford	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1700-1799	??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the R...	Samuel Bamford	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mrs Robinson... has read your novel, and was very much pleased with the main story; but did not like the conclusion. ...	Mrs Robinson	Mary Hays	Memoirs of Emma Courtney	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	Henry James to Henry James Sr., 29 May 1878: " ... Sir Charles Dilke ... appears to have found time ... to read and be...	Sir Charles Dilke	Henry James	"French essays"	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Gruppe read us a translation of one of the Homeric Hymns - Aphrodite - which is really beautiful. It is a sort of Geg...	[Professor] Gruppe	Homer	[hymn to Aphrodite]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...	Sir Walter Raleigh	Silvio Pellico	Prisons	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...	Sir Walter Raleigh	George Eliot	Adam Bede	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...	Sir Walter Raleigh	[unknown]	[French novel]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I re...	Sir Walter Raleigh	[unknown]	[dramatists' works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin...	Sir Walter Raleigh	[unknown]	[Roman History]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed...	Sir Walter Raleigh	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor...	Thomas Carlyle	Baron Jacob Berzelius	Examination of some compounds which depend upon very weak affinities	Manuscript: Sheet
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Histories of Jack the Giant Killer	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Saint George and the Dragon	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Tom Hickathrift	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Jack and the Bean Stalk	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	History of the Seven Champions	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Fair Rosamond	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	History of Friar Bacon	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Account of the Lancashire witches	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	The witches of the woodlands	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Robin Hood's Songs	Print: Book, Broadsheet
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spaciou...	Samuel Bamford	anon	The Ballad of Chevy Chase	Print: Book, Broadsheet
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?At length, "Robinson Crusoe" ? that ever-exciting day dream of boys ? fell in our way. I read it to him, as I had don...	Samuel Bamford	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fi...	Samuel Bamford	John Wesley	Journals	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...	Samuel Bamford	[n/a]	The Armenian Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...	Samuel Bamford	anon	An account of the Inquisition in Spain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...	Samuel Bamford	anon	The Drummer of Tedworth	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...	Samuel Bamford	anon	Some account of the disturbances at Glenluce	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...	Samuel Bamford	anon	An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...	Samuel Bamford	[unknown]	The History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown...	Samuel Bamford	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown...	Samuel Bamford	John Milton	[miscellaneous poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complet...	Samuel Bamford	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complet...	Samuel Bamford	William Shakespeare	[works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did...	Samuel Bamford	John Milton	[miscellaneous works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did...	Samuel Bamford	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printe...	Thomas Carlyle	Baron Jacob Berzelius	Examination of some compounds which depend upon very weak affinities	Print: Proof-sheet
	1800-1849	'At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great f...	Thomas Carlyle	August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue	Unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. How...	Thomas Carlyle		Book of Job	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect;...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean le Rond D'Alembert	Unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider...	Samuel Bamford	William Robertson	History of Scotland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider...	Samuel Bamford	Oliver Goldsmith	History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider...	Samuel Bamford	Charles Rollin	Ancient history	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider...	Samuel Bamford	David Hume	Decline and fall of the Roman empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider...	Samuel Bamford	Anachaises	Travels in Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen...	Samuel Bamford	Samuel Johnson	Lives of the poets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen...	Samuel Bamford	James Macpherson	Ossian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen...	Samuel Bamford	Lindley Murray	Murray's Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", an...	Samuel Bamford	William Cobbett	Cobbett's Weekly Register	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listen...	Samuel Bamford	William Cobbett	Weekly Register	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listen...	Samuel Bamford	William Hone	[political pamphlets]
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex....	Francis Wemyss	Mostyn John Armstrong	Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, ... also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, ...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, wher...	James Watson	William Cobbett	Political Register	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, wher...	James Watson	Thomas Jonathan Wooler	Black Dwarf	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where sh...	James Watson	Richard Carlile	Republican	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where sh...	Mrs Watson	William Cobbett	Political Register	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I cannot remember learning the Alphabet but when I was four years of age or there about my Godmother presented me wit...	Joseph Mayett	anon	Reading made easy in a variety of useful lessons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?My Godmother sone [sic] provided me a testament but my mother not being able to Read the first Chapter of St Matthews...	Joseph Mayett	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor...	Joseph Mayett	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor...	Joseph Mayett	Dr Watts	Hymns	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read h...	Joseph Mayett	[unknown]	[religious books]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progre...	Joseph Mayett	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I la...	Joseph Mayett	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a ...	Joseph Mayett	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	?I Remembered when I was about 8 or 9 years of age my mother had been Correcting me for something I had done wrong and...	Joseph Mayett	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. ...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were...	Thomas Carter	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were...	Thomas Carter	James Hervey	Meditations among the tombs; in a letter to a lady	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'About this time I also gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeals, and fruit, and was moreover ...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	[stories]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following...	Thomas Carter	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's "Divine and Mor...	Thomas Carter	Isaac Watts	Divine and Moral Songs	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Among these books was a brief abstract of that amusing story "Robinson Crusoe", which I read with much eagerness and ...	Thomas Carter	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Another book which thus came in my way was Mrs Barbauld's "Hymns for Children" which I soon perceived to be exactly s...	Thomas Carter	Anna Letitia Barbauld	Hymns in Prose for Children	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious ...	Thomas Carter	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A little before this time I had been reading that entertaining little volume, Miss Taylor's "Original Poems for Child...	Thomas Carter	Anne Taylor	Original Poems for Infant Minds	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	The Assembly's Catechism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were c...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Arminian Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were c...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Of grammar neither myself nor my schoolfellows were taught aything, except to repeat by rote the brief grammatical ex...	Thomas Carter	Daniel Fenning	The Universal Spelling Book	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i...	Thomas Carter	William Enfield	The Speaker	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall i...	Thomas Carter	Sir Richard Phillips	Geography	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall i...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i...	Thomas Carter	James Thomson	The Seasons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i...	Thomas Carter	Oliver Goldsmith	Citizen of the World, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i...	Thomas Carter	Oliver Goldsmith	Vicar of Wakefield, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wante...	Thomas Carter	James Thomson	Seasons, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I must now mention some other books which about this time fell in my way. Among these an odd volume of the "Spectator...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Spectator, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's ...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Lloyd's Evening Post	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Rel...	Thomas Carter	David Simpson	A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were ...	Thomas Carter	Rev. Thomas Scott	[various essays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register"...	Thomas Carter	n/a	Courier	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Wat...	Thomas Carter	Isaac Watts	Horae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	The Wreath	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inne...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	The Rambler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	[volumes by the British Essayists]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	John Milton	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a...	Thomas Carter	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ...	Thomas Carter	James Cook	[narratives of voyages]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ...	Thomas Carter	Jean Fran?ois de Galaup La P?rouse	[narratives of voyages]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ...	Thomas Carter	Louis Antoine de Bougainville	[narratives of voyages]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ...	Thomas Carter	James Bruce	[narratives of travels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ...	Thomas Carter	Fran?ois Le Vaillant	[narratives of travels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of ...	Thomas Carter	Isaac Weld	[narratives of travels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'While walking to Hampstead, I strayed into a copse not far from my road, where I seated myself upon the trunk of a tr...	Thomas Carter	Christoph Christian Sturm	Reflections on the Works of God and of His Providence	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading "Hunger and Thirst" and expressed great value for it.'	Erasmus Wilson	unknown	Hunger and Thirst	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on s...	Agnes Halkerston	James Duncan	Scotch itinerary, containing the roads through Scotland on an new plan, with copious observations for the entertainment of travellers, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register"...	Thomas Carter	n/a	The Independent Whig	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register"...	Thomas Carter	William Cobbett	Weekly Political Register	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - w...	Thomas Carlyle	Joseph Planta	History of the Helvetic Confederacy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jard...	Thomas Carlyle	Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock	Messiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jard...	Thomas Carlyle	John Bristed	America and her Resources	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meanin...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Confessions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and...	Thomas Carlyle	Lady Sidney Owenson Morgan	France	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and...	Thomas Carlyle	Barthelemy Faujais de Saint-Frond	Voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrides...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and...	Thomas Carlyle	Lady Sidney Morgan	Roderick, the Last of the Goths	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe...	[Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in m...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu...	Thomas Carter	David Ramsay	History of the American Revolution, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu...	Thomas Carter	John Smith	Travels in Canada and the United States	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu...	Thomas Carter	Edward Parkinson	Travels in North America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, t...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	[morning newspaper]	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my bi...	Thomas Carter	Robert Bloomfield	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my bi...	Thomas Carter	James Montgomery	Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I found a good deal of amusement in looking over the engravings in a Spanish volume, called, I think, "The Visions of...	Thomas Carter	Francisco de Quevedo	The Visions of Don Quevedo	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My friend had a good deal to do in order to be prepared for his approaching voyage. While he was attending to these m...	Thomas Carter	Torquato Tasso	Jerusalem Delivered	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At the request of our landlady, I looked over a volume of Sermons by the eminent Unitarian minister, Dr. Price. I did...	Thomas Carter	Richard Price	[volume of sermons]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	British Press	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	The Statesman	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi...	Thomas Carter	William Cobbett	Political Register	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston For...	Johnston Forbes-Robertson	Henry James	"Covering End"	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr. Park's...	Thomas Carter	Mungo Park	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace...	Thomas Carter	Quintus Horace	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace...	Thomas Carter	Henry Kirk White	Remains	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Monthly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	European Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Examiner	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Black Dwarf	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ...	Thomas Carter	Thomas Campbell	The Pleasures of Hope	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ...	Thomas Carter	William Cowper	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ...	Thomas Carter	James Thomson	Liberty, a Poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[On hot summer afternoons Carter took shelter in the shaded parts of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens] 'In the latter I...	Thomas Carter	James Beattie	The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the ...	Thomas Carter	William Giles	Guide to Domestic Happiness, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the ...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	Letters on the Marriage State	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"...	Thomas Carter	Alexander Pope	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"...	Thomas Carter	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"...	Thomas Carter	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"...	Thomas Carter	James Hervey	Theron and Aspasia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and swee...	Thomas Carter	Samuel Rogers	Human Life, a Poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and swee...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	[History of the recent wars]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was unable to work for a fortnight through lameness... While laid by from work, I read Mr. MacKenzie's "Man of Feel...	Thomas Carter	Henry Mackenzie	Man of Feeling and other tales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful...	Thomas Carter	Washington Irving	Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful...	Thomas Carter	Mark Akenside	Pleasures of the Imagination, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	London Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly ...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	New Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Anti-Jacobin Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a...	Thomas Carter	Barry Edward O'Meara	Napoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St Helena	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a...	Thomas Carter	Ebenezer Henderson	Iceland, or the Journal of a Residence in that Island during the years 1814 and 1815	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a...	Thomas Carter	William Edward Parry	Journal of a Voyage to discover a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It must have been during this year [1823] that I began to read a work which gave me much and unalloyed pleasure: this...	Thomas Carter	Josiah Conder	The Modern Traveller, a Description of the Various Countries of the Globe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaini...	Thomas Carter	Gray	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaini...	Thomas Carter	J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi	Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of D...	Thomas Carter	Dugald Stewart	Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of D...	Thomas Carter	Thomas Reid	Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of D...	Thomas Carter	Dante Alighieri	The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of D...	Thomas Carter	William Jowett	Christian Researches in the Mediterranean, from MDCCCXV to MDCCCXX	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays...	Thomas Carter	Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays...	Thomas Carter	James Beattie	[Essays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays...	Thomas Carter	James Beattie	Essay on truth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through ...	Thomas Carter	James Arminius	[works on theology and account of his life]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through ...	Thomas Carter	James Montgomery	Lectures on poetry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Of him [lodger ? a Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was...	Thomas Carter	John Wesley	Journal	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?Of him [lodger ? Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was n...	Thomas Carter	John Wesley	[works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ...	Thomas Carter	William Shakespeare	[plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ...	Thomas Carter	Sharon Turner	Sacred history of the creation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ...	Thomas Carter	Samuel Drew	Memoirs of Mr Samuel Drew	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ...	Thomas Carter	Jung Stilling	Theory of pneumatology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1600-1699	[Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be...	Johannes [ie John] Chrystie	John Middleton	The laws and acts of the first Parliament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]: an additional printed page, printed by the Buchan Portable Press, titled "Letter from Princess Mary to L...	David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan	David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan	Anonymous and fugitive essays of the Earl of Buchan	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakesp...	Thomas Burt	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of Englan...	Thomas Burt	Thomas Babbington Macaulay	[essays]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It w...	Thomas Carlyle	Abbe Raynal	Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It w...	Thomas Carlyle	Eliza Draper	Inscription to Raynal's 'History of the E. and W. Indies'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucub...	Thomas Carlyle	Various	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing ...	Thomas Carlyle	John Millar	Historical View of the English Government, An	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Millar on the English government &c-'	Thomas Carlyle	John Millar	Historical View of the English Government, An	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t...	Thomas Catling	[unknown]	The lives of the Stoics	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t...	Thomas Catling	[unknown]	[unknown various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider...	Samuel Bamford	[unknown]	[works on travel and antiquities]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr Park's ...	Thomas Carter	Patrick Colquhon	Treatise on the Police of the metropolis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washingto...	Thomas Carter	Charles Lamb	[works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washingto...	Thomas Carter	Thomas Holcroft	The life of Thomas Holcroft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washingto...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	Life of General Washington	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's...	Thomas Carter	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's...	Thomas Carter	William Hutton	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's...	Thomas Carter	Jung Stilling	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's...	Thomas Carter	Walter Scott	[works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's...	Thomas Carter	Robert Southey	[works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's...	Thomas Carter	Harriet Martineau	[works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack'...	Thomas Carlyle	Alexander Carlyle	Letter (date unknown)	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ...	Thomas Burt	John Milton	[various]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila...	Samuel Bailey	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila...	Thomas Burt	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav...	Thomas Burt	William Wordsworth	The Highland Girl	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must hav...	Thomas Burt	William Wordsworth	The Solitary Reaper	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma...	Thomas Burt	[unknown]	[theological magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally w...	Thomas Wright	[n/a]	[playbill]	Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
	1800-1849	'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties....	Francis William Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether. Liked the character of Fanny. Admired the Portsmouth Scene...	Edward Austen Knight	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Clewes's objections [to Mansfield Park] much the same as Fanny's [Fanny Knight]'.	[Miss] Clewes	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.'	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny. - Delighted much in Mr Rus...	Cassandra Elizabeth Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My Eldest Brother - a warm admirer of it in general. - Delighted with the Portsmouth scene.'	James Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Edward - Much like his Father. - Objected to Mrs Rushworth's Elopement as unnatural'.	James Edward Austen-Leigh	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Burdett - Did not like it so well as P. & P.'	[Miss] Burdett	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it [Mansfield Park] better than P. & P.'	[Mrs James] Tilson	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke...	[Mrs] Cooke	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Burrel - admired it very much - particularly Mrs Norris & Dr Grant.'	[Miss] Burrel	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Bramstone - much pleased with it; particularly with the character of Fanny, as being so very natural. Thought La...	[Mrs] Bramstone	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. bet...	Augusta Bramstone	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Egerton the Publisher - praised it for it's [sic] Morality, & for being so equal a Composition. - No weak parts.'	Thomas Egerton	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Sharpe - "I think it is excellent - & of it's [sic] good sense & moral Tendency there can be no doubt. - Your Ch...	[Miss] Sharpe	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Carrick. - "All who think deeply and feel much will give the Preference to Mansfield Park."'	[Mrs] Carrick	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike ...	Sir James Langham	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles - did not like it near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'	Charles Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M.P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.'	[Mrs] Dickson	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Lefroy - liked it, but thought it a mere Novel.'	[Mrs] Lefroy	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Portal - admired it very much - objected cheifly [sic] to Edmund's not being brought more forward'.	[Mrs] Portal	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Pole wrote, "There is a particular satisfaction in reading all Miss A-s works - they are so evidently written by ...	[Mrs] Pole	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S. and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'	[Mrs] Creed	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the "Weekly Examiner", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous ...	Thomas Wright	[n/a]	[Weekly Screamer]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...	Samuel Bamford	anon	[superstitious doctoring book]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...	Samuel Bamford	Edward Cocker	Cocker's Arithmetic, being a Plain and Easy Method of 1678	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use.....	Charles Manby Smith	[unknown]	[various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we...	Charles Manby Smith	[unknown]	[various]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'. . . let me recommend to You, to borrow or get from the Circulating Library, "An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley C...	Samuel Crisp	Colley Cibber	Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, Comedian	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I had, indeed been extremely anxious to hear of poor Pacchierotti, for the account of his Illness in the newspapers h...	Frances Burney		[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did...	Samuel Bamford	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", an...	Samuel Bamford	William Cobbett	[writings]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.'	[Mrs Francis] Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs J. Bridges - preferred it to all the others.'	[Mrs J.] Bridges	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Sharp - better than M.P. - but not so well as P. & P. - pleased with the Heroine for her Originality, delighted ...	[Miss] Sharp	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.'	Cassandra Elizabeth Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easil...	James Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easil...	[Mrs James] Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Edward - preferred it to M.P. - only. - Mr. K liked by every body.'	James Edward Austen-Leigh	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Bigg - not equal to either P & P. - or M.P. - objected to the sameness of the subject (Match-making) all through...	[Miss] Bigg	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to ...	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.'	[Mrs] Craven	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.'	[Miss] Craven	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Bigg - on reading it a second time, liked Miss Bates much better than at first, & expressed herself as liking al...	Miss Bigg	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The family at Upton Gray - all very amused with it. - Miss Bates a great favourite with Mrs Beaufoy.'	[Mrs] Beaufoy	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spo...	[Mrs] Leigh-Perrot	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Countess Craven - admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she ranked as the very first of ...	[Countess] Craven	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Guiton - thought it too natural to be interesting.'	[Mrs] Guiton	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Digweed - did not like it so well as the others, in fact if she had not known the Author, could hardly have got t...	[Mrs] Digweed	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Terry - admired it very much, particularly Mrs Elton.'	[Miss] Terry	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Isabella Herries - did not like it - objected to my exposing the sex in the character of the Heroine - convinced...	Isabella Herries	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Countess Morley - delighted with it.'	[Countess] Morley	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Dickson - did not much like it - thought it [italics] very [end italics] inferior to P & P. - Liked it the less, ...	[Mrs] Dickson	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'	[Mrs] Brandreth	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it to M.P. - but like[?]d M.P. the least of all.'	[Mrs] Lefroy	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it very much, better than MP - & thought I had "brought it all about very cleverly in the ...	[Mrs] Lutley Sclater	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs C. Cage wrote thus to Fanny - "A great many thanks for the loan of "Emma," which I am delighted with. I like it b...	[Mrs C.] Cage	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P & P. - Thought the Authoress wrong, in such times as these, to draw such...	[Mrs] Wroughton	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sir J. Langham - thought it much inferior to the others.'	Sir J. Langham	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.'	Francis Jeffrey	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Murden - certainly inferior to all the others.'	[Miss] Murden	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Capt C. Austen wrote - "Emma arrived in time to a moment. I am delighted with her, more so I think than even with my...	Charles Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs D. Dundas - thought it very clever, but did not like it so well as either of the others.'	[Mrs D] Dundas	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them - nature in or...	Sir Walter Scott	Jane Austen	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". Th...	Sir Walter Scott	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to a...	Sir Walter Scott	Maria Edgeworth	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to a...	Sir Walter Scott	Susan Ferrier	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There is no book which that word ["vulgaire"] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel ...	Sir James Mackintosh	Jane Austen	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my ...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jane Austen	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-pl...	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Jane Austen	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-pl...	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Laplace	Mecanique Celeste	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing ...	William Charles Macready	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on o...	William Charles Macready	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the p...	William Charles Macready	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, ...	William Charles Macready	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of...	Frances Burney	unknown	[sermons]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. S...	Frances Burney	John Moore	View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Ja...	Samuel Langhorne Clemens	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrim...	Joseph Mayett	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this b...	Joseph Mayett	John Bunyan	Two covenants	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he le...	Joseph Mayett	[unknown]	[religious books]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had ...	Joseph Mayett	[n/a]	Book of Isaiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort fro...	Joseph Mayett	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat...	Joseph Mayett	Hannah More	Shepherd of Salisbury Plain	Print: Book, chapbooks
	1800-1849	'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat...	Joseph Mayett	Hannah More	Farmer's fireside	Print: Book, chapbook
	1800-1849	'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat...	Joseph Mayett	Hannah More	Discontented pendulum	Print: Book, chapbook
	1800-1849	'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical prin...	Joseph Mayett	William Cobbett	[various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical prin...	Joseph Mayett	Thomas Wooler	[various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical prin...	Joseph Mayett	Richard Carlisle	[various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us ...	Joseph Mayett	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...'	Francis William Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K.	Edward Austen Knight	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.'	Cassandra Elizabeth Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Burdett - Did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'	[Miss] Burdett	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P. & P.'	[Mrs James] Tilson	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'	[Mrs] Augusta Bramstone	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'	[Mrs] Augusta Bramstone	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Sharpe - "I think it "Mansfield Park"] excellent... but since you beg me to be perfectly honest, I must confess ...	[Miss] Sharpe	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles - did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'	Charles Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.'	[Mrs] Dickson	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'	[Mrs] Creed	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabe...	[Mrs] Leigh Perrot	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Countess Craven - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very...	[Countess] Craven	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'	[Mrs] Digweed	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'	[Mrs] Digweed	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'	[Mrs] Digweed	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'	[Mrs] Brandreth	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'	[Mrs] Brandreth	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'	[Mrs] Brandreth	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it ["Emma"] to M.P - but like[d] M.P. least of all.'	[Mrs] Lefroy	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it ["Emma"] very much, better than M.P.'	[Mrs] Lutley Sclater	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.'	[Mrs] Wroughton	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Te...	Christopher Thomson	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o...	Christopher Thomson	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o...	Christopher Thomson	Peter Longueville	The hermit Philip Quarll	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I now became anxious to read all that came in any way, and like most juveniles, felt a deep interest in the reading o...	Christopher Thomson	Robert Boyle	Boyle's Travels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib...	Christopher Thomson	[unknown]	[religious tracts]	Print: Book, Broadsheet, tracts
	1800-1849	'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib...	Christopher Thomson	[unknown]	[religious magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed ...	Christopher Thomson	Thomas Skinner	Splendid misery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ...	Christopher Thomson	Matthew Lewis	The Monk	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ...	Christopher Thomson	John Milton	[various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ...	Christopher Thomson	William Shakespeare	[various titles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ...	Christopher Thomson	[Samuel?] Johnson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ...	Christopher Thomson	Laurence Sterne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett...	Christopher Thomson	William Cobbett	Cobbett's political register	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett...	Christopher Thomson	Thomas Jonathan Wooler	Black Dwarf	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The "Penny Magazine" was published - I borrowed the first volume, and determined to make an effort to possess myself ...	Christopher Thomson	Charles Knight	Penny Magazine	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after so...	Isaac	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Maga...	James Glass Bertram	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag...	James Glass Bertram	[unknown]	[various English periodicals]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag...	James Glass Bertram	[n/a]	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...	James Glass Bertram	William Cobbett	Advice to young men	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...	James Glass Bertram	George L. Craik	Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...	James Glass Bertram	William Tait	Tait's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...	James Glass Bertram	Walter Scott	Guy Mannering	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...	James Glass Bertram	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...	James Glass Bertram	Walter Scott	The Bride of Lammermoor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...	James Glass Bertram	Walter Scott	St Ronan's Well	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...	James Glass Bertram	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin...	James Glass Bertram	John Galt	Lives of the players	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin...	James Glass Bertram	John Galt	Sir Andrew Wyllie	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin...	James Glass Bertram	John Galt	Annals of the Parish	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tas...	James Glass Bertram	Samuel Smiles	[biographies of men]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and i...	James Glass Bertram	James Lackington	[autobiography]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Journals of Mary Shelley "We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction"	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	Mary, a fiction	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Journals of Mary Shelley "We read part of l'Abbe Barruels histoire de Jacobinism"	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Augustin Barruel	Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Journals of Mary Shelley "We read Abbe Barruel"	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Augustin Barruel	Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Journals of Mary Shelley "M. & S. walk to the shore of the lake & read the description of the seige of Jerusalem in T...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Histories Book V	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Stephen Duck's habits in reading whilst working, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Ste...	Stephen Duck		The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Thomas Carter on childhood reading: '"I gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeats and fruit, an...	Thomas Carter		storybooks	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Thomas Carter on reading enabled at the dame-school run by his mother: '"I [...] gained some profit as well as pleasur...	Thomas Carter		books	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own...	Thomas Carter		The Arminian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Thomas Carter on reading enabled at his Protestant Dissenting day school, where one master gave him the run of his own...	Thomas Carter		The Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	While living in London, the tailor Thomas Carter 'made a habit of taking his breakfast at one of the coffee shops [......	Thomas Carter		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson		Philip Quarll	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson	Boyle	Travels	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson		religious tracts	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson	John Milton		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson		Cobbett's Political Register	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson		The Black Dwarf	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson		mechanics' magazines	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson	Walter Scott	novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...	Christopher Thomson	George Gordon, Lord Byron	poetry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...	Charles Shaw	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...	Charles Shaw	Rollin	Ancient History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...	Charles Shaw		"boys' books"	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...	Charles Shaw	Dick	Christian Philosopher	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...	Charles Shaw	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...	Charles Shaw	Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock	The Messiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...	Charles Shaw	Pollock	The Course of Time	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...	Charles Shaw	George Gifillan	The Bards of the Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Thomas Wood, an apprentice mechanic, described the problems he faced [reading] in [...] dark evenings: "I had to read...	Thomas Wood			Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Samuel Bamford, warehouseman to a cloth printer in Manchester at the beginning of the [nineteenth] century, was able ...	Samuel Bamford			Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the gramma...	Thomas Cooper		books on history	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the gramma...	Thomas Cooper		foreign language grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the gramma...	Thomas Cooper			Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the gramma...	Thomas Cooper			Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the gramma...	Thomas Cooper			Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the gramma...	Thomas Cooper			Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The nineteenth-century cobbler Thomas Cooper's account of his reading routines: '"Historical reading, or the gramma...	Thomas Cooper			Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ...	James Glass Bertram	James Hogg	Shepherd's Calendar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I had made a few visits to him, Mr De Quincey was so kind as to take some particular notice of me; and afterward...	Thomas de Quincey	Thomas de Quincey	George and Sarah Green	Print: Serial / periodical, proofs
	1800-1849	'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi...	James Glass Bertram	[n/a]	Bentley's Miscellany	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavo...	James Glass Bertram	Robert Chambers	Chambers's Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi...	James Glass Bertram	William Harrison Ainsworth	Jack Sheppard	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened...	James Glass Bertram	Mrs Johnstone	The Schoolmaster	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of ...	James Dawson Burn	Chevalier Ramsay	Life of Cyrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actua...	Thomas Carter	Henry Kirke White	The Remains of Henry Kirke White	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Pa...	Joseph Gutteridge	Voltaire	Dictionary of Philosophy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Pa...	Joseph Gutteridge	Thomas Paine	The Age of Reason	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	David Vincent notes the former agricultural labourer (and later trades union leader and M.P.) Joseph Arch's recollecti...	Joseph Arch			Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Samuel Bamford never forgot the sensation of reading a volume of [...] [Robert Burns's] life and writings whilst wor...	Samuel Bamford	Robert Burns	volume containing life and writings of Burns	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of...	Thomas Carter		The Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of...	Thomas Carter	James Thomson	The Seasons	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten ...	Catherine Dawson Scott	Charlotte Mew	"The Farmer's Bride"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'In the July of 1918 a copy of "The Farmer's Bride" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff litt...	Sydney Cockerell	Charlotte Mew	The Farmer's Bride	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred...	Wilfred Scawen Blunt	Charlotte Mew	The Farmer's Bride	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred...	Siegfried Sassoon	Charlotte Mew	The Farmer's Bride	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of ...	Thomas Hardy	Thomas Hardy	poems	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rat...	Charles Greville	Cicero	Second Philippic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...This morning I learnt (by reading it in the Globe) the sudden death of Lord Holland after a few hours' illness, an...	Charles Greville		Globe	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'...and this morning the Morning Chronicle puts forth an article having every appearance of being written by Palmersto...	Charles Greville		Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la...	James Glass Bertram	Samuel Warren	Diary of a late physician	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la...	James Glass Bertram	Samuel Warren	Ten thousand a year	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?I read in the newspaper the day before yesterday an account of a lad brought up for not supporting his child. The f...	Charles Greville		[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	?I could no longer stand the torrent of nonsense, violence and folly which the newspapers day after day poured forth, ...	Charles Greville		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo...	Siegfried Sassoon	Charlotte Mew	"Sea Love"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo...	Sydney Cockerell	Charlotte Mew	"Sea Love"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo...	Thomas Hardy	Charlotte Mew	"Sea Love"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoo...	Siegfried Sassoon	Charlotte Mew	"Madeleine in Church"	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Then we write a part of the romance and read some Shakespears [sic]'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Plays including Richard III and King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads aloud the letters from Norway'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley finishes Mary a fiction'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	Mary, a fiction	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We read Shakespeare'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Talk and read the newspapers'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Wordsworth	The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, a poem	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Hookham calls here & Shelley reads his romance to him.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[romance]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Shelley] 'Reads the ancient mariner to us'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [Shelley] reads part of "Caleb Williams" to us.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Things as they are: or, the adventures of Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1850-1899	This evening Charley has read to us the 12th No. of "Orley Farm", which is interesting so far as it pursues the main p...	Charles Lewes	Anthony Trollope	Orley Farm	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentleme...	Caroline Frances Anne Mew	Anita Loos	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Er kehrt zum Vater wenn er die Erbs?nde verneint [...] Der Raum enth?lt in Nebeneinader was nur in zeitlicher Nachei...	James Joyce	Otto Weinginer	?ber die letzten Dinge	Print: Book
	1900-1945	After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which...	Thomas Hardy	Charlotte Mew	"Fin de Fete"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ...	James Lackington	Plato	On the immortality of the soul	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ...	James Lackington	Plutarch	Morals	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made ...	James Lackington	Confucius	various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'My master said to me one day, he was surprized that I did not learn to write my own letters, and added, that he was s...	James Lackington	anon	various scraps of writing	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my fri...	James Lackington	Thomas Amory	The life of John Buncle	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'As to the little knowledge of literature I possess, I acquired that by dint of application. In the beginning I attach...	James Lackington	anon	various on divinity and moral philosophy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Hesbert	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Tindall	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Chubb	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Morgan	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Collins	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Woolston	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Annet	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Mandeville	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Sheftesbury	[?] Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Bolingbroke	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Williams	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,...	James Lackington	Voltaire	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; ...	James Lackington	unknown	[English poets]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; ...	James Lackington	unknown	Various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I have also read most of our best plays.?	James Lackington	unknown	various English plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...	James Lackington	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote (probably)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...	James Lackington	Henry Fielding	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...	James Lackington	Tobias Smollet	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...	James Lackington	Samuel Richardson	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...	James Lackington	Frances Burney	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...	James Lackington	Voltaire	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...	James Lackington	Lawrence Sterne	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...	James Lackington	Le Sage	Gil Blas (probably)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant...	James Lackington	Goldsmith	Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Well,? at the Lower Rooms we saw this Woman, ? whose Face carries an affirmation of all this account, ? it is bold, h...	Frances Burney	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I come here we play at battlecock and shuttledore and mama reads Shakespear in the evening[.] When she goes with...	Henrietta Frances Ponsonby	Shakespeare	unknown	Unknown
	1700-1799	'. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put t...	Frances Burney		Learned Lass, or the Poor Scholar's Garland! A Song. Tune, Black Joke.	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'But these extraordinary accounts and discourses, together with the controversies between the mother and sons, made me...	James Lackington	unknown	various	Unknown
	1700-1799	?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answe...	James Lackington		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answe...	James Lackington	Wesley	Hymns	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the Evening we had Mrs. Lambert, who brought us a Tale, called Edwy & Edilda by the sentimental Clergyman Mr. Whal...	Frances Burney	Whalley	Edwy and Edilda: A Tale in Five Parts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?? for a long time I read ten chapters in the Bible every day, I also read and learned many hymns, and as soon as I co...	James Lackington	Wesley	Tracts and Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?I had such good eyes, that I often read by the light of the moon, as my master would never permit me to take a candle...	James Lackington	unknown	various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer w...	James Lackington	Epictetus	Morals	Print: Book
	1700-1799	?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer w...	James Lackington	Homer	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This morning we had from the Library the Maid of Arragon, a Tale by Mrs. Cowley, ? & Mrs. Thrale began reading it alo...	Hester Thrale	Hannah Cowley	The Maid of Arragon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We all worked very hard, particularly Mr John Jones and me, in order to get money to purchase books; But what we want...	James Lackington	unknown	various	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'You may lately have seen her pretty often alluded to in the Morning Post, ?but pray who is the [ital] Dr. B [ital] in...	Frances Burney		Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscr...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Felicia Browne [later Hemans]	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.	Augusta Leigh	Lady Caroline Lamb	[letters and verses]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'He [Percy Bysshe Shelley] reads the curse of Kehama to us in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Southey	The Curse of Kehama	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'In the evening Shelley reads Thaliba aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Southey	Thalaba the Destroyer	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'When I left my home for the first time, I suddenly passed out of the excitements of my Windsor life into the school-b...	Charles Knight		The Globe	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Mary Berry to Bertie Greathead, 2 August 1798, on having got to know Mrs Siddons the previous winter: 'She read "Hamle...	Sarah Siddons	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	[Greek]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Matthew Gregory Lewis	The Monk: a romance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'.	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Anacreon	[odes]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'PBS reads Diogenes Laertius.'	Perct Bysshe Shelley	Diogenes Laertius	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads the Ancient Mariner aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley is very unwell - he reads one canto of Queen Mab to me.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Queen Mab: a philosophical poem with notes	Manuscript: Unknown, owned by author
	1800-1849	'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Edward du Bois	St. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Count Reginald St. Leon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, translated from the oiginl Latin MS. under the immediate inspection of the prince by John Brown, Esq.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read part of Alexy. I repeated one of my own poems.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Percy Bysshe Shelley	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the wrongs of woman.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening Shelley reads Abbe Barruel to us.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Abbe Barruel	History of the Illuminati	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Posthumous works.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Mary Wollstonecraft	Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the rights of woman	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Zastrozzi'.	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Zastrozzi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads the History of the Illuminati out of Baruel to us.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Abbe Barruel	Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Begin Julius Florus and finish the little vol of Cicero.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Marcus Tullius Cicero		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish St Leon.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Wiiliam Godwin	St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Caleb Williams.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Wiiliam Godwin	Things as they are; or the Adventures of Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads a part of Comus aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Comus (A mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I faintly remember going through Aesop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be...	John Stuart Mill	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discours...	John Stuart Mill	anon	The Annual Register	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'He ['my father'] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circum...	John Stuart Mill	Philip Beaver	African memoranda relative to an attempt to establish a British settlement on the island of Bulama, on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1792. With a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facil	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Gilbert Burnet	History of my Own Time	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circum...	John Stuart Mill	Collins	[account of the first settlement of New South Wales]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'At that time [?my eighth year?] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I ...	John Stuart Mill	Diogenes Laertius	Lives of the Philosophers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Robert Watson	History of the Reign of Philip II	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Robert Watson	History of Philip III	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discours...	John Stuart Mill	William Robertson	Histories	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	David Hume	The History of England (presumably)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Nathaniel Hooke	Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Charles Rollin	Ancient History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours...	John Stuart Mill	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Herodotus	Histories	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Isocrates	Ad Nicoclem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Isocrates	Ad Demonicum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Lucian		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Xenophon	Cyropaedia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re...	John Stuart Mill	Xenophon	Memorials of Socrates	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be...	John Stuart Mill	Xenophon	The Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet...	John Stuart Mill	Plato	Euthyphro	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet...	John Stuart Mill	Plato	Theaetetus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet...	John Stuart Mill	Plato	dialogues	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	John Millar	Historical View of the English Government	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	John Rutty	History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	William Sewell	The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	Johann Lorenz von Mosheim	An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s...	John Stuart Mill	Thomas McCrie	Life of John Knox	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi...	Christopher Grieve	Ralph Waldo Emerson	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi...	Christopher Grieve	Nathaniel Hawthorne	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi...	Christopher Grieve	Ambrose Bierce	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi...	Christopher Grieve	Sidney Lanier	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi...	Christopher Grieve	Mark Twain	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	The Grave	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection...	Thomas Carter	[unknown]	The Minstrel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection...	Thomas Carter	Dr Porteus	Death	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	Joseph Addison	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	Oliver Goldsmith	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	Thomas Gray	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	[John] Collins	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	William Falconer	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	John Pomfret	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	Mark Akenside	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	Elizabeth Rowe	[poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	John Gay	Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	John Gay	[burlesque 'pastorals']	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "...	Thomas Carter	John Gay	The Village Curate	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...	Thomas Carter	[n/a]	[daily newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly ...	Thomas Carter	Thomas Campbell	Letters from Algiers	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 3 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt read to us one of Massinger's plays ("The Duke of M...	John B. S. Morritt	Philip Massinger	The Duke of Milan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 5 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt continued reading the "Duke of Milan." He reads ve...	John B. S. Morritt	Philip Massinger	The Duke of Milan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 6 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt began reading another of Massinger's plays [having ...	John B. S. Morritt	Philip Massinger	The Fatal Dowry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he...	The Rev. Sydney Smith	Mary Berry	Preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he...	The Rev. Sydney Smith	Mary Berry	Life of Madame du Deffand	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 25 August 1810, on visit of the Princess of Wales to Strawberry Hill: 'The Princess was very live...	Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales	unknown	[books of engravings]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane.	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	William Godwin	Things as the are, or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Voltaire	Memoirs of the life of Voltaire written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Zadig.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Voltaire	Zadigi ou la destinee	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the life of Alfieri.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Victor Alfieri	Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the life of Alfieri'.	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Victor Alfieri	Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Louvets memoires'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray	Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read aloud to Jane.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read all evening.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read I don't know what.'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays...	Thomas Carter	David Hume	[Essays]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with ...	Frances Burney	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In a 1735 letter to Lady Hertford, [Elizabeth Singer] Rowe observes that the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" "Seems to be w...	Elizabeth Singer Rowe	Alexander Pope	Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There ...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Tobias Smollett	Complete History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Thomas Campbell	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Ossian (pseud.)	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Vittorio Alfieri	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	William Wordsworth	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Robert Southey	Madoc	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Maria Edgeworth	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	William Beckford	Vathek	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read a great deal, among her books being one called "Pride and Prejudice", "Which is at present the fashionable n...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	J.C. de Sismondi	history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lara	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'she was reading Dryden's "Don Sebastian", which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron a question. He said angri...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	John Dryden	Don Sebastian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'she was reading Leigh Hunt's "Rimini", and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni - evidently ...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Leigh Hunt	Rimini	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in July appeared the first part of "Don Juan". "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected", wrote An...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Gordon, Lord Byron	The Giaour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Fare Thee Well	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[a Satire - on Annabella?]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chi...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	Harriet Martineau	Five Years of Youth: or, Sense and Sentiment	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years ea...	Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron	George Macdonald	Within and Without	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On...	William Somerset Maugham	[anon.]	Thousand Nights and One Night, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On...	William Somerset Maugham	Lewis Carroll (pseud.)	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On...	William Somerset Maugham	Lewis Carroll (pseud.)	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On...	William Somerset Maugham	Walter Scott	[Waverley novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On...	William Somerset Maugham	Frederick Marryat	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On...	William Somerset Maugham	William Harrison Ainsworth	[works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 28 May 1812: 'In the evening the Princess [?of Wales] read to us "Amelie de Mansfeldt."'	Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales	Madame de Cottin	Amelie de Mansfeldt	Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1812: '[Princess Charlotte] left between nine and ten o'clock [pm]. The Princess [?of Wal...	Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales	Madame de Cottin	Amelie de Mansfeldt	Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay...	Thomas Campbell	Thomas Campbell	First discourse upon Poetry	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Read all evening'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the greek grammar'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[Greek Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read and work in the evening'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the morning and work'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the Greek grammar'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[Greek Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little in the Greek grammar'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[Greek Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a part of St Leon'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	William Godwin	St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Work and read in the evening'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Petronius	Satyricon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening read Louvet's memoirs'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray	Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Louvet's memoirs all day'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray	Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Louvet's memoirs'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray	Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Write and read'	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's "Lives"'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Adolphus	Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Edgar Huntley to us'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Charles Brockden Brown	Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walker	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Francois de La Rochefoucauld	Maximes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	anon.	La Princesse de Cleves	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Jean anon.	[tragedies]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Voltaire (pseud.)	[novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Stendhal (pseud.)	Le Rouge et le Noir	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Stendhal (pseud.)	La Chartreuse de Parme	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Honore de Balzac	Pere Goriot	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Anatole France (pseud.)	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Pierre Loti (pseud.)	[exotic tales]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...	Somerset Maugham	Guy de Maupassant	[tales: short stories]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'.	Somerset Maugham	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'	Somerset Maugham	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own dau...	Thomas Campbell	Thomas Campbell	discourse on English poetry and poets	Unknown
	1800-1849	'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. list...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Cicero	Cato Maior de Senectute	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. list...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Cicero	Paradoxa Stoicorum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. list...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Julius (Or Lucus Annaeus) Florus	[possibly] Epitome bellorum omnium annorum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usua...	Sir Uvedale Price	Germaine de Stael	L'Allemagne (vol.3)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usua...	Sir Uvedale Price	Germaine de Stael	L'Allemagne (vols 1-3)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 20 August 1814: 'Lord Rosslyn read to us "Lara," Lord Byron's new tale. It strongly marks his ma...	James Alexander, second Earl of Rosslyn	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lara	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and comment...	Sir James Mackintosh	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Hon. James Abercrombie to Mary Berry, 5 January 1820: 'I am reading Coxe's "Life of Marlborough;" the subject, in ...	The Hon. James Abercrombie	Coxe	Life of Marlborough	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Mary Berry, Journal, 2 January 1822, during stay at Guy's Cliff: 'Mrs Siddons read "Othello," the two parts of Iago an...	Sarah Siddons	William Shakespeare	Othello	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Professor W. Smythe to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'Your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and En...	Professor W. Smythe	Mary Berry	The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 1)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Charles Poulett Thomson to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'I return you your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life...	Charles Poulett Thomson	Mary Berry	The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 1)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's lives'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Adolphus	Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley writes his critique & then reads Edgar Huntley to us all all day and all the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Charles Brockden-Brown	Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walker	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Rev. Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1840]: 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand.'	Rev. Sydney Smith	Madame du Deffand	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the St...	Lord Francis Jeffrey	unknown	Catalogue of Strawberry Hill collections	Print: Book, catalogue
	1800-1849	Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 22 April 1842 ('Friday Evening'): 'I have just been reading over your admirable le...	Lord Francis Jeffrey	Mary Berry	Letter to Lord Francis Jeffrey	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j...	Lord Francis Jeffrey		The Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j...	Lord Francis Jeffrey	Thomas Babington Macaulay	article on Frederick of Prussia	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1843]: 'I saw a piece of news the other day, in which a gentleman made his good fortune k...	The Rev. Sydney Smith		Church appointment notice	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads aloud out of the "Female Revolutionary Plutarch"'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Stewarton	Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read "P. Proteus" in the even'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Christopher Wieland	Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she reads the Italian'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Paine	Rights of Man; being an answer to Burke's attack on the French Revolution	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads the Fairy Queen aloud'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	Fairie Queene, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Prud'homme aloud to us'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Louis-Marie Prudhomme	[unknown, possibly one of his French revolutionary works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Moore	A Journal during a residence in France from August to December 1792	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Mungo Parks travels loud'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mungo Park	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Walk out with Shelley. he reads Suetonius all day'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Suetonius	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I [Harriet Martineau] was spending a couple of days at Mrs. Marsh's, when she asked me whether I would let her read t...	Mrs Marsh	Mrs Marsh	The Admiral's Daughter	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'[S. T. Coleridge] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he (the last person whom I should have suspected) read my tales as...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Harriet Martineau	Tales	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) t...	Princess Victoria	Harriet Martineau	Stories including "Ella of Garveloch"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end...	Maria Weston Chapman	Harriet Martineau	Mary and her Grandmother	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau to her mother, 17 June 1833: '[Coleridge] read me (most exquisitely) some scraps of antique English'.	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		"scraps of antique English"	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Sir Arthur Helps to the publisher Macmillan, 'I have lately re-read "Deerbrook" with exceeding delight.'	Sir Arthur Helps	Harriet Martineau	Deerbrook	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p...	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	The Derbyshire Patriot	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Went with E. Allen to the Swan to see a London paper, saw one and learnt from it that Col. Evans was return'd to West...	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	Bells Weekly Messenger	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Work'd all day. In the evening was visited by Wm Camm and Geo Seston to the latter of whom I lent Watts "Improvement ...	Joseph Jenkinson	Ebeneezer Elliot	Corn Law Rhymes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Still unwell ... had in the course of the day read a good deal of "Colton's Work" with which I was very well satisfie...	Joseph Jenkinson	Calvin Colton	Manual for Emigrants to America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliame...	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	The Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliame...	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	The Parliamentary Review	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Saw an advertisement that Mr Berry was to preach at South Street on the following Sunday and at once determined (heal...	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	[advertisement / poster for next week's preacher]	Print: Advertisement, Poster
	1800-1849	'Sent for a pot of porter. J.I. and myself drank it, I smoked a pipe read a little in an old "Sheffield Iris"- then wr...	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	The Sheffield Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Trade awfully bad the money market depressed and deplorable accounts from the manufacturing districts ... says the "M...	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	The Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Had three pints of beer at the Harrow then came home, I afterwards read my opportioned [sic] quantity of "Watts Logic...	Joseph Jenkinson	Isaac Watts	Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read until near dinner [goes to chapel] came home, had a glass of gin and water read my quantum of "Watts Logic" smok...	Joseph Jenkinson	Isaac Watts	Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tokk a little supper and afterwards read 28 pages of "Watts Logic". Now feel weary and am on the point of retiring wi...	Joseph Jenkinson	Isaac Watts	Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Now going to bed having completed my daily reading 12 o'clock -news today of Don Carlos quitting Spain and taking ref...	Joseph Jenkinson	Isaac Watts	Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Came home about half past 10 p.m. Read my stinted quantity of "Watts".'	Joseph Jenkinson	Isaac Watts	Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read my usual quantity, and retired quite fatigued.'	Joseph Jenkinson	Isaac Watts	Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did not read much tonight -but if all be well I intend to bring up the arears to morrow. (Sat 21 did not read my stat...	Joseph Jenkinson	Isaac Watts	Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Commenced reading at 7 p.m. and continued till half past 9. Made up for the last nights neglect and am now going to b...	Joseph Jenkinson	Isaac Watts	Logick or the right use of reason in the enquiry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Morning Chronicle" of this day announced the death of Henry Lord Brougham... The editor very kindly and very jus...	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	The Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'The account of the money market rather more favourable.'	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	[The Morning Chronicle?]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Rose at 7 am wash'd looked over the paper etc.'	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	[The Morning Chronicle?]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read the paper and smoked a pipe.'	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	[The Morning Chronicle?]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Trade very dull - weather very wet and rather windy as predicted by Murphy'.	Joseph Jenkinson	Patrick Murphy	The Weather Almanack, 1838-39	Print: Book, almanac
	1800-1849	'My Grandmother and Miss Haynes dined at our house. Read Reynolds' "Comedy of Notoriety"; I think it is fully equal to...	Joseph Hunter	Frederick Reynolds	Notoriety: A Comedy [Five Acts in Prose]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the "Ency. Bri." article Porto-Bello the same account is given. They sat it was given by Columbus.'	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Encyclopedia Britanica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the [D.S?] library having only read a few of the letters which did not ple...	Joseph Hunter	Samuel Jackson Pratt	Gleanings in England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Brought back [from the subscription? library] the Gents Mag for Feby 4 March. They have not yet done with the controv...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In this weeks paper Dr M. advertises that he proposes to deliver 12 lectures on metal and metalurgy ...the subscripti...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	[The Sheffield Iris]	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'In the "Iris" of this day Dr M advertises the subjects of the two next lectures ...Montgomery [the editor] is very ca...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Sheffield Iris	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	[account of attending the lectures on metals advertised in the "Iris"] ...all this I had read before ... in the "Sup. ...	Joseph Hunter	George Gregory	The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I took [books] to the library and brought Aikin's "Description of the Country between 30 and 40 miles around Manchest...	Joseph Hunter	John Aikin	A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin ...	Joseph Hunter	John Aikin	A Description of the country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin ...	Joseph Hunter	John Aikin	Evenings at home; or the Juvenile Budget Opened	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We got the "Monthly Magazine" from Miss Haynes who takes it in. Mr E. says it is the best published. I drew a copy o...	Joseph Hunter	John Aikin	A Description of the Country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Written on end papers of manuscript book of Dawson's diary] 'this book was Read with much Interest by me May 1864, th...	Francis Cain	John Dawson	John Dawson's Diary, Volume One, 1722-30, 1731-40.	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699 1700-1799	'When Mrs Hinde (the Old Lady) would sometimes talk to her about Books, she?d cry out, "Prithee don?t talk to me about...	Sarah Churchill	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of "The Hour and the Man...	Francis Jeffrey	Harriet Martineau	The Hour and the Man (vol. I)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans	Bring flowers	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And fl...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anonymous	The season of death	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'During his holidays he found on his mother's dressing-table an old torn copy of Gerard's "Herbal", having the names a...	Joseph Banks	John Gerard	The Herball or General Historie of Plants	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who ha...	Joseph Banks	Georg Eberhard Rumphius	Herbarium Amboinensis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We took Beroe incrassata, Medusa limpidissima, plicata and obliquata, Alcyonium anguillare (probably the thing that S...	Joseph Banks	George Shelvocke	A Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South Sea	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making...	Joseph Banks	Charles De Brosses	Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contr?es d?couvertes jusqu'? ce jour	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our pala...	Joseph Banks	[uknown-ship's cook?]	[recipe]	Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe.
	1700-1799	'About a fortnight ago my gums swelled, and some small pimples rose on the inside of my mouth, which threatened to bec...	Joseph Banks	Hulme	[book with medical directions]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and ...	Joseph Banks	Patrick Browne	The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and ...	Joseph Banks	Georg Eberhard Rumphius	Herbarium Amboinensis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) ...	Joseph Banks	Charles de Brosse	Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, ...	Joseph Banks	Rene Augustin Constantin de Renneville	A collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade & navigation ...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He was covered with a fine cloth of a manufacture totally new to us; it was tied on exactly as represented in Mr. Dal...	Joseph Banks	Alexander Dalrymple	An Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean, previous to 1764	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the clot...	Joseph Banks	Abel Jansen Tasman	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We had also that fish described by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of "elefant, pejegallo"...	Joseph Banks	Amedee Francois Frezier	Relation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux c?tes du Chili, et du Peron, fair pendent les annees, 1712, 1713, et 1714	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Hemans	The voice of spring	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffer...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	George Gordon, Lord Byron	When coldness wraps this suffering clay	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heav...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Epitaph on an Idiot	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know wh...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Thomas] [Moore]	[The Blue Stocking]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour,...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[George Gordon, Lord] [Byron]	[Don Juan - Canto the Third]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart w...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[James?] Beresford	[On vaccination]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[James?] Montgomery	Night	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Saw the "Sheffield Iris" paper- and in it the report of a division in the House of Commons on a motion of Sir W. Ingi...	Joseph Jenkinson	[n/a]	The Sheffield Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Mor...	Charles Darwin	William Paley	A View of the Evidences of Christianity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Mor...	Charles Darwin	William Paley	Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe wa...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace des...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[Translation of an Arabic Ode]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's f...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[The Ton]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the trouble...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Robert] [Burns]	[Lady Mary Anne]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh f...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/Th...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Ode to the closing year	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Dear Lord Byron? I must thank you for yr. Poem you have sent me I [this word is illegible] not say how good I think ...	Lady Sarah Jersey	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[poem]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'It is a bitterly cold evening, towards the end of February. The fire is very low, and at the moment is rather smother...	Miss V	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflicti...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans]	The grave of a poetess	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisan...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]?	[Adieu]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Dr Clark	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His sold...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Letitia Elizabeth Landon	The record	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Maria Tighe	The lily	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	George Croly	Evening's daughter	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a pi...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Letitia Elizabeth Landon	The Troubadour [extract]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation a...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[On Friendship]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shade...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	H. Smith	Country and Town	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine	[L'Homme]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Lines on Home	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He trea...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Henry Neele	The comet	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ a...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Thomas Moore	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festi...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans	The illuminated city	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring fort...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans	The forest sanctuary	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[unknown]	Poesie di Ossian	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Mary] [Tighe]	The old Maid's prayer to Diana	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Robert] [Pollock]	The Course of Time [extract]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	The Dead and the Living [extract]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	William Wordsworth	[The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different so...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Thomas Moore	My Birthday	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Thomas Moore	To my mother	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ O...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Resignation	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Joseph Addison	[Spare Time]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our exp...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	Journal of an Annuyee	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light an...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anon	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'In examining a fig which we had found at our last going ashore, we found in the fruit a "Cynips", very like, if not e...	Joseph Banks	Fredrik Hasselquist	Iter Palestinum	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The gum-trees were like those in the last bay, both in leaf and in producing a very small proportion of gum; on the b...	Joseph Banks	Sir Hans Sloane	History of Jamaica	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female,...	Joseph Banks	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female,...	Joseph Banks	Peter Simon Pallas	Miscellanea Zoologia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having now, I believe, fairly passed through between New Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the westwa...	Joseph Banks	William Dampier	"Voyage Round the World" or "Voyage to New Holland"	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "San...	Joseph Banks	William Dampier	"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland"	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "San...	Joseph Banks	Abel Janszoon Tasman	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The third was of the opossum kind, and much resembled that called by De Buffon "Phalanger". Of these two last I took...	Joseph Banks	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When first we found the tree, we of course gathered the branches, and were surprised to find our hands instantly cove...	Joseph Banks	Georg Eberhard Rumphius	Herbarium Aboinense	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of ...	Joseph Banks	Georg Eberhard Rumphius	Herbarium Aboinense	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profu...	Joseph Banks	William Dampier	"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland"	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the evening a small bird of the noddy (Sterna) kind hovered about the ship, and at night settled on the rigging, w...	Joseph Banks	William Dampier	"Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland"	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have been told that this very method was proposed in the "Gentleman's Magazine" many years ago, but have not the bo...	Joseph Banks	Amedee Francois Frezier	Relation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili et du Perou	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'All I can say is that when seen from the top of a building, from whence the eye takes it in at one view, it does not ...	Joseph Banks	Francois Valentijn	Oudt en Nieuw Oost-Indie	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable ...	Joseph Banks	Georg Eberhard Rumphius	Herbrium Aboinensis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that...	Joseph Banks	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'In 1823 I read in Scott?s novel of ?Quentin Durward? the prophetic words of Martivalle, ?Can I look forward without w...	Charles Knight	Sir Walter Scott	Quentin Durward	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Robert] Southey	[The curse of Kehama, canto X]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come i...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Walter] [Scott]	[The monastery]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy belo...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans]	[Kindred hearts]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee a...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	John Malcolm	[untitled]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ t...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	Matilde a novel	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	[untitled]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans	[untitled]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels th...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	G.I. C.....	The Eve of the Battle	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	A Highland Salute to the Queen	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gla...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	The Star of Missions	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre ...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text]...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Innes[?]	Lines on Mountghaine [?]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lock...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Luis Baylon	Farewell to the Year	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of s...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Maria] Abdy	Worsted work	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	M. Vicary	Lines	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Anon]	The dead friend	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to Go...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	John Mackintosh	Adieu	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	[Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles]	To one at rest	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the st...	Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine	Anonymous	[untitled]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrim...	Joseph Mayett	[n/a]	Book of Job	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ...	James Glass Bertram	James Hogg	[poems]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la...	James Glass Bertram	[n/a]	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'A review for Brewster's philosophical journal of a German book on Magnetism, I must also write or say I cannot - the ...	Thomas Carlyle	Professor Hansteen	Inquiries Concerning the Magnetism of the Earth	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [cl...	Frances Burney	Jerningham	'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical Pieces' or poems separately published.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E...	Thomas Carlyle	Jeffrey	Article IX	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E...	Thomas Carlyle	Jeffrey	Article X	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Southey	Article ix	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "E...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Southey	Article iv	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'No work of fiction could be read unless approved by their mother* ... [footnote] * An exception was made in the case ...	Princess Elizabeth	Fanny Burney	Camilla	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains...	Frances Burney	Henry Harrington	Nugae Antiquae	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Alphonse Daudet	Tartarin sur les Alpes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Pearl Mary Theresa Craigie	Letters from a Silent Study	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	William Makepeace Thackeray	The History of Henry Esmond	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Joseph Butler	Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Thomas Jonathan Jackson	[Military History]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I would like you to read a little book called "The Forerunner", by Merejkowski, published by Constable. It is about ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Dimitri Merejkowski	The Forerunner, the romance of Leonardo da Vinci	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As regards books, such a lot depends on what sort of life you are leading. I always relish Ingram's terse epigrammat...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Brooke Foss Westcott	Introduction to the Study of the Gospels	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Sir William Francis Patrick Napier	History of the War in the Peninsular	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	James Boswell	The Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Curiously enough I arrived at this result by the aid of an R. C. book, called "The Spiritual Combat". The motto of ...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Dom Lorenzo Scupoli	The Spiritual Combat	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In future I hope that instead of saying as the fat boy in "Pickwick" does "I wants to make yer flesh creep," when I h...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...	Donald William Alers Hankey	[unknown]	[unknown - on Higher criticism]	Print: Unknown, cuttings
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Dr Robert William Dale	The Doctrine of Atonement	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Charles Gore	Prayer and the Lord's Prayer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...	Donald William Alers Hankey	Brooke Foss Westcott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio...	Donald William Alers Hankey	[unknown]	[essay on rifling]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and transla...	Thomas Carlyle	Friedrich Mohs	Crystalography	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of lit...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Du Contrat Social	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of lit...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sen...	Thomas Carlyle	Leigh Hunt	The Examiner	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Luc...	James Austen	Dr Edward Jenner	pamphlet on the cow pox
	1800-1849	'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Luc...	Augusta Bramston	Dr Edward Jenner	pamphlet on the cow pox
	1850-1899	'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi	unknown history	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement f...	James anon	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Ought I to be very much pleased with Marmion? - As yet I am not. James reads it aloud in the Eveng - the short Eveng...	James Austen	Walter Scott	Marmion, or A Tale of Flodden Field	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On the 28th September I was reading "Blackwood", when the magazines of our metropolis were just getting on their oute...	Charles Knight		Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'When Wordsworth was then spoken of as a great poet, the ordinary question was, "Why is he not more popular?" The proc...	Charles Knight	Thomas Moore	Lalla Rookh	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jonathan Swift	The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles James Blomfield	A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of his Diocese	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Blanco White	Practical and Internal Evidence against Catholics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Blanco White	Letters from Spain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Blanco White	A letter to Charles Butler, Esq	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Payne Knight	An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Hookham Frere	Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Blanco White	The Poor Man's Preservative against Popery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Francis Beaumont	The Dramatic Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	August Heinrich Matthiae	A Copious Greek Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	The Doctor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Philip Skelton	The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Philip Skelton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Henry George Grey	Corrected Report of the Speech of Viscount Howick	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Nicholson	A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	David Lyndsay [pseud]	Dramas of the Ancient World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Herder	Kalligone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Georg August Goldfuss	Handbuch der Zoologie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Lorenz Oken	Erste Ideen zur Theorie des Lichts, der Finsternis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Das System der Sittenlehre nach den Principien	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Grundiss des Eigenthumlichen der Wissenschaftslehr	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre als Han	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Camden	Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Moses Mendelssohn	Morgenstunden oder Vorlesungun uber das Daseyn Got	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ernst Platner	Ernst Platners Philosophische Aphorismen nebst ein	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Steffens	Ueber die Idee der Universitaten	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	Prodomus Philosophiae	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Spee	Trutz Nachtigal ein geistlich poetisches Lustwaldl	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus	Das Leben Jesu	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Aristophanes	The Birds	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Nehemiah Grew	Cosmologica Sacra OR A Discourse of the Universe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gebbard Ehrenreich Maass	Versuch uber die Einbildungskraft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Hermann Boerhaave	A New Method of Chemistry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Petrarch	Il Petrarca di nuova ristampato, & c diligentement	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	Einleitung in das Neue Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Benjamin Wheeler	The Theological Lectures of the Late Rev. Benjamin Wheeler	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Robinson	Miscellaneous Works of Robert Robinson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Hugh James Rose	Prolusio in Curia Cantabrigiensi recitata	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Ritson	A Select Collection of English Songs	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Charles Wells	Two essays: one upon single vision with two eyes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ferdinand Friedrich Runge	Neveste phytochemische Entdeckingen zur Begrundung	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Webster	The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Ritson	Ancient songs, from the time of King Henry the Third	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	Book of Common Prayer [unknown edition]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Hayley	The Life of Milton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Daniel	The Poetical Works of Mr Samuel Daniel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Alighieri Dante	The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Alighieri Dante	The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Wissenschaft der Logik	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Alexander Charles Louis D'Arblay	The Vanity of All Earthly Greatness	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Herder	Briefe das studium der Theologie betreffend	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Hearne	A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort, in Hudson's Bay	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Spottiswoode	The History of the Church of Scotland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	James Foster	The Usefulness, Truth, and Excellency of the Christian Revelation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Galt	Sir Andrew Wylie, of that Ilk	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon	A Select Collection of Hymns	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Harwood	Annotations, Ecclesiastical and Devotional	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Mariana Starke	Travels on the continent	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Dugald Stewart	Dissertation First	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Emanuel Swedenborg	The Nature of the Intercourse between the Soul and the body	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Thomson	A System of Chemistry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Isaac Taylor	Elements of Thought	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Moses Mendelssohn	Philosophische Schriften	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Nicola Francesco Haym	Notizia de' libri rari viella lingua italiana	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Anderson [Editor]	The Works of the British Poets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Francis Bond Head	Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau, by an old man	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Christian Heinroth	Lehrbuch der Anthropologie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Bull	Defensio Fidei Nicaenae	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Abbti	Vermischte Werke	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Royal Society	The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Nelson Coleridge	"Life and Writings of Hesiod" Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	The Conduct of the British Government towards the Church of England in the West India Colonies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville Illon	Les ages de la nature et histoire de l'espece human	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Scott	The Christian Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Jefferson	Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Mary Lamb	Mrs Leicester's School: or, the history of several young ladies, related by themselves	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Fitzwilliam Owen	Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Eikon Basilike	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jeremy Taylor	A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Year	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jeremy Taylor	A Course of Sermons for all the Sundays in the Year	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jeremy Taylor	A collection of polemical discourses	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	Encyclopaedia Londinensis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Encyclopaedia Londinensis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edward Williams	Poems, Lyric and Pastoral	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	Philosophische Schrifte[n]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	Philosophische Schrifte[n]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	James Sedgwick	Hints to the Public and the Legislature on the nature and effect of evangelical preaching	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Walter Wilson	Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Christoph Wolf	Curae philologicae et criticae, ...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Sedgwick	Justice upon the Armie Remonstrance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Selden	Table-Talk	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Selden	Table-Talk	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Karl Christian Wolfart	Jahrbucher Fur den Lebens-Magnetismus oder Neues	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Sermons or Homilies of the United Church of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Shakespeare	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Shakespeare	Stockdale's Edition of Shakespeare	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christopher Wordsworth	Six Letters to Granville Sharp, Esq	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Shakespeare	Dramatic Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christopher Wordsworth	"Who Wrote Eikon Basilike?" considered and answered	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Shakespeare	Dramatic Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Wordsworth	The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse,	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	System des transcendentalen Idealismus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	System des transcendentalen Idealismus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling	Ueber die Gottheiten von Samothrace	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Francis Wrangham	The Life of Dr. Richard Bentley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christian Wolff	Logic, or rational thoughts on the powers of the human understanding	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	August Wilhelm Schlegel	Gedichte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	August Wilhelm Schlegel	Ueber dramatische Kunst und Litteratur	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Francis Wrangham	Scraps	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher	A Critical Essay on the Gospel of St Luke	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher	Ueber den sogenannten ersten Brief des Paulos	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Davison	Discourses on Prophecy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	James Abraham Hillhouse	Hadad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Daniel Defoe	The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Hobbes	Leviathan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Hooker	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	anonymous	A Dialogue on Parliamentary Reform	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Hugh of Saint Victor	De Sacramentis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Darley	Sylvia or the May Queen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Rene Descartes	Opera Philosophica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Antoine Desmoulins	Histoire naturelle des races humaines	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Homer	Whole Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Homeri Hymni et epigrammata	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Homeri Hymni et epigrammata	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette	Theodor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Howie	Biographia Scoticana	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Hughes	The Believer's Prospect and Preparation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Donne	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jean Antoine Dubois	Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India, and of their Institutions, religious and civil	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John and Michael Banim	Tales by the O'Hara Family	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Francesco Baldovini	Lamento di cecco da Varlungo	Unknown
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Peter Augustine Baines	Faith, Hope, and Charity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Karl Friedrich Bahrdt	Glaubens-Bekanntniss	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia] mainly 1804-1811; a few notes added up to 1818-1819, one note is as late as 1826 or later	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Asgill	A Collection of Tracts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Asgill	A Collection of Tracts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	M Lodovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens	Kabbalistische Briefe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Anster	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Annual Anthology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Analysis of the Report of a Committee	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	The Age. A Poem. In eight books.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Aeschylus	Prometheus Vinctus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Aeschylus	Agamemnon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Christoph Adelung	Deutsche Sprachlehre fur Schulen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Acta Seminarii Regii et Societatis Philologicae Li	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Adam	Private Thoughts on Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Patrick Colquhoun	A Treatise on Indigence	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Collins	Poetical Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Nelson Coleridge	Six Months in the West Indies in 1825	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	Athenaeum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Nelson Coleridge	Notes on the Reform Bill	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Ellery Channing	A Discourse	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir George Colebrooke	Six Letters on Intolerance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gabriello Chiabrera	Delle Opere	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Chambre	Some Animadversions upon the Declaration	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Hartley Coleridge	The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Alexander Chalmers	The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Alexander Chalmers	The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Alexander Chalmers	The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Cave	Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Claudius Claudianus	Quae exstant opera	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Conrad Barchusen	Elementa Chemiae	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Carmina Illustrium Poetarum Italorum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Byfield	The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Butler	The Anatomy of Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles Butler	Vindication of "The Book of the Roman Catholic Church"	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles Butler	The Book of the Roman Catholic Church	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Burnet	De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium Liber	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gilbert Burnet	The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gilbert Burnet	The Life of William Bedell	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gottfried August Burger	Gedichte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Thomas Browne	Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Thomas Browne	Religio Medici	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Thomas Browne	Religio Medici	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Brooke	The Fool of Quality OR The History of Henry Earl of Moreland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edward Brerewood	A Second Treatise of the Sabbath	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Hendrik Brenkmann	Historia Pandectarum	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Lisle Bowles	Sonnets, and other poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Book of Common Prayer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Claude Alexandre, Comte de Bonneval	Memoirs of the Bashaw Count Bonneval	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gottfried Christian Bohn	Wohlerfahrner Kaufmann	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jakob Bohme	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Blake	The Ladies Charity School-House Roll of Highgate	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	A Harmonie upon the Three Evangelists	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Holy Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Holy Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Holy Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Holy Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Francis Beaumont	Fifty Comedies and Tragedies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Baxter	Reliquiae Baxterianae & c	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Baxter	Reliquiae Baxterianae & c	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Baxter	Reliquiae Baxterianae & c	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Baxter	Catholick Theologie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Bartram	Travels Through North & South Carolina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Barclay	Argenis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Barclay	Argenis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Lavington	The Moravians compared and detected	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	St Francis of Sales	Il Teotima osia il trattato dell'amor di Dio	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Laud	The Second Volume of the Remains of the Most Reverend father in God, and blessed martyr, William Laud	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Duncan Forbes	The Whole Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Laud	The History of the Troubles and Tryal of The Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Carl Friedrich Flogel	Geschichte der Komischen Litteratur	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Claude Fleury	Ecclesiastical History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Fitzgibbon	The speech of the Right Honourable John Lord Baron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Fielding	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Fielding	The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Carl Alexander Ferdinand Kluge	Versuch einer Darstellung des animalischen Magneti	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Carl Alexander Ferdinand Kluge	Versuch einer Darstellung des animalischen Magneti	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Kenyon	Rhymed Plea for Tolerance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry Fielding	The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Field	Of the Church	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Field	Of the Church	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Field	Of the Church	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Marsilio Ficino	Platonica theologia de imortalitate animorum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Sammlung einiger bisher unbekannt gebliebener klei	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Ver	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Veber den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Metaphysische Anfangsgrunde der Naturwissenschaft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Die Metaphysik der Sitten	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Critik der reinen Vernunft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Critik der reinen Vernunft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Immanuel Kants Logik ein Handbuch zu Vorlesungen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Critik der Urtheilskraft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Die Bestimmung des Menschen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Anthropologie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Die Anweisung zum seeligen leben	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Peter Heylyn	Cyprianus Anglicus; or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	"Junius"	The Letters of Junius	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann	Fantasiestucke in Calloti Manier	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Pierre Jurieu	The History of the Council of Trent	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Heinrich Hoffbauer	Der Mensch in allen Zonen der Erde	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Hyman Hurwitz	The Elements of the Hebrew Language	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edwin Atherstone	The Last Days of Herculaneum; and Abradates and Panthea	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Philippe de la Clyle, sire de Commines	The History of Philip de Commines	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Johnson	The Works of the Late Reverend Mr Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joannes Scotus Erigena	De divisione naturae libri quinque	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joannes Scotus Erigena	De divisione naturae libri quinque	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	Einleitung in die apokryphischen Schriften	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	Einleitung in die apokryphischen Schriften	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	Einleitung ins Alte Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi	Veber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi	Veber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr Moses Mendelssohn	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi	Veber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herr Moses Mendelssohn	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Eichhorn	Allgemeine Bibliothek der biblischen Litteratur	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas W Dymock	England's Dust and Ashes Raked up	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	James Hutton	An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Friedrich Blumenbach	Uber die naturlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Friedrich Blumenbach	Uber die naturlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Law	A serious call to a devout and holy life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Immanuel Kant	Vermischte Schriften	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	David Friedlander	Sendschreiben an seine Hochwurden Herrn Oberconsistorialrath und Probst Teller zu Berlin	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Andrew Fuller	The Calvinistic and Socinian Systems Examined and Compared as to their Moral Tendency	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz	Theodicee, das ist, Versuch von der Gute Gottes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Leighton	The Expository Works and Other Remains of Archbishop Leighton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Fuller	The Church-History of Britain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Fuller	The Church-History of Britain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Fuller	The Holy State and Profane State	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Fuller	Life Out of Death	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Fuller	A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, With The History of the Old and New Testament acted thereon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Leben, nebst seinem noch ubrigen litterarischen Nachlasse	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	Gotthold Ephraim Lessings samm Hiche Schriften	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Fuller	A Triple Reconciler	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Moses Mendelssohn	Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und Judenthum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Lightfoot	The Works of the Reverend and Learned John Lightfoot	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Benedetto Menzini	Poesie di Benedetto Menzini Fiorentino divise in due tomi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Fulke Greville	Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Milton	Poems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Milton	A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Hacket	Scrinia Reserata: A Memorial Offer'd to the Great Deservings of John Williams, DD	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry More	The Theological Works of the most pious and learned Henry More, DD Sometime Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Hacket	A Century of Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry More	Philosophical Poems, etc	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry More	Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica, and Anima Magica abscondita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Hall	An Humble Motion to the Parliament of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Nemesius of Emesa	Nemesii Philosophi Clarissimi de Natura Hominis Liber Utilissimus	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	David Hartley	Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Nicolson	The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Martin Luther	Colloquia mensalia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Joseph Nicolson	The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Lyttelton	The History of the Life of King Henry the Second	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Cotton Mather	Magnalia Christi Americana	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Bernard de Mandeville	The Fable of the Bees: or, private vices, publick benefits	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Von Matthisson	Gedichte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Von Matthisson	Gedichte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edward Stillingfleet	Origines Sacrae, or a rational account of the grounds of natural and revealed religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Steele	Mr Recorder's Speech to the Lord Protector	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Stanley	The History of Philosophy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	Joan of Arc, an epic poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Smith	Select Discourses	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Sherlock	A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Algernon Sidney	The Works of Algernon Sidney	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Philip Sidney	Arcadia der Graffin von Pembrock	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Henry More	The Second Lash of Alazonomastix	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Fuller	The Appeal of Inivred Innocence	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Hugo de Groot	De jure belli et pacis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann	De emendenda ratione graecae grammaticae pars prim	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Heinrich Jung	Theorie der Geister-Kunde	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling	Jahrbucher der Medicin als Wissenschaft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Jahn	Appendix hermeneuticae seu exercitationes exegetic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi	Werke (Vol I-III [of 6])	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Anton Mesmer	Mesmerismus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Cesare Mussolini	Italian Exercises	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Friedrich Ludwig Von Hardenberg	Novalis Schriften (Vol I of 2)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Napoleon Bonaparte	Codice di Napoleone il Grande pel Regno d'Italia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Notice des tableaux exposes au Musee d'Anvers	Unknown
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Law Magazine OR Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Leighton	The Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop of Glasgow	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Leighton	The Genuine Works of R Leighton, D.D. Archbishop of Glasgow	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Fuller	The History of the Worthies of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne	Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Benjamin Pitts Capper	A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Robert Malthus	An Essay on the Principle of Population	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Macdiarmid	Lives of British Statesmen, & c	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Noble	An Appeal in behalf of the views of the Eternal World And State And The Doctrines Of Faith And Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Nathan Hale	The American System OR The effects of high duties	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Miller	Sermons Intended to Show a Sober Application Of Scriptural Principles To The Realities Of Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Gray	The Works of Thomas Gray	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Godwin	Thoughts Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Parr's Spital Sermon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	M Loewe	A Treatise on the Phenomena of Animal Magnetism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles Lloyd	Nugae Canorae	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Galt	The Provost OR Memoirs of His Own Times	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Leighton	The Whole Works of Robert Leighton, D.D.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Robert Malthus	The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the importation of foreign corn	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Charles Smith	Seven Letters on National Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Philip Massinger	The Plays of Philip Massinger... with notes critic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	History of Brazil	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	History of Brazil	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	History of Brazil	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	Lives of the British Admirals	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	Omniana, or horae otiosiores	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	S. Maxwell [potential pseudonym]	The Battle of the Bridge; or Pisa Defended	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Benedictus de Spinoza	Benedicti de Spinoza opera quae supersunt omnia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel O'Sullivan	The Agency of Divine Providence Manifested in the	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Parnell	An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John James Park	The Dogmas of the Constitution	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir William Stewart	Outlines of a Plan for the General Reform of the British Land Forces	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Sterling	Arthur Coningsby	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Friedrich Meckel	System des vergleichenden Anatomie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger	Philosophische Gesprache	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John James Park	Conservative Reform	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	John Oxlee	The Christian Doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Der Geschlossne Handelsstaat	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Steffens	Grundzuge der philosophischen Naturwissenschaft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Steffens	Grundzuge der philosophischen Naturwissenschaft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Steffens	Anthropologie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Lorenz Oken	Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Steffens	Caricaturen des Heiligsten	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Steffens	Caricaturen des Heiligsten	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Lorenz Oken	Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Steffens	Die gegenwartige zeit und wie sie geworden mit besonderer R?cksicht auf Deutschland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Heinrich Steffens	Beytrage zur innern Naturgeschichte der Erde	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Malcolm Laing	The History of Scotland, from the Union of the Crowns on the accession of James VI to the throne of England to the Union of the Kingdoms in the reign of Queen Anne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Manuel Lacunza Y Diaz	The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	William Falconer	The Shipwreck	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Stanley Faber	A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or the Great Gods of Phoenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy and Crete	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	George Stanley Faber	A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or the Great Gods of Phoenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy and Crete	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	A member of the Church of England	Eternal Punishment Proved to Be Not Suffering, But Privation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Adolph Carl August Eschenmayer	Psychologie in drei Theilen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Ben Jonson	The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Thomas Swinburne	A Letter to the Right Honourable Robert Peel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Johann Jahn	The History of the Hebrew Commonwealth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edward Irving	Sermons, Lectures and Occasional Discourses	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Edward Irving	For Missionaries after the Apostolical School	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[n/a]	The Eclectic Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which Fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more th...	Sarah H. Burney	Hannah More	Practical Piety	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough- pardon the expression) whether I have read "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"- Alas only twice...	Sarah H. Burney	Walter Scott	The Lay of the Last Minstrel	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We got the Iris this morning I copied out of it the petition of the G [?] dispersed thro Germany and Hartman's Solilo...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Sheffield Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Mr Fisher who came up to alter Mr E a gown &c against our journay bought in a "Cambridge Inteligencer" to look at; it...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	Cambridge Inteligencer	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'[Brought from the library] "Varieties of English Literature" vol 1st which being unintelligible stuff for the most pa...	Joseph Hunter	[William] [Tooke]	Varieties of Literature From Foreign Literary Jour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the 9th mo. [1800] died Thos Rutter, of Bristol ... His amiable character is so ably pourtrayed [sic] in 142 & c o...	James Jenkins	John Tomkins	Piety Promoted in Brief Memorials ... Society of F	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I took "Varieties & c" to the Library. I brought the 2nd Volume of the "Minstrel or Anecdotes of Distinguished Person...	Joseph Hunter	Anon	The Minstrel; or Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons in ye fifteenth century	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I went to see my Grandmother, she lent me 2 romances "Richard Couer de Lion" by Mr White author of "Earl Strongbow" &...	Joseph Hunter	James White	The Adventures of King Richard Couer de Lion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I went to Mr Gales to order two book which I saw at Birmingham [...] I brought the "Life of Lackington" from the Libr...	Joseph Hunter	James Lackington	Memoirs of the First Forty Five Years of the Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I brought from the Library "Pennant's [Views?] of London", out of which I drew a view of the Savoy Hospital'	Joseph Hunter	Thomas Pennant	Account of London	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I drew out of Pennant a View of the Ruins of Clerkenwell Church'	Joseph Hunter	Thomas Pennant	Account of London	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'bought Dodsley's "Trifles", a very entertaining book [in margin] Price 1s which Mr E. gave me to buy it with & has li...	Joseph Hunter	Robert Dodsley	Trifles	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I took the 2nd Vol. & brought the 3d of Lyons &c. They are very entertaining books.'	Joseph Hunter	Daniel Lyons	The Environs of London, Being an Historical Account	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We got "The Iris" this morning; it contained an Advertisement from Mr [Sorby?], saying that he intended to resign the...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Sheffield Iris	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1700-1799	'We got the new catalogue from Library, The number of subscribers 118, there are near 2400 Books. [In Margin] Printed ...	Joseph Hunter	[unknown]	[Catalogue of the Sheffield Subscription Library]
	1700-1799	'We learn from the "Iris" of this morning that the "Wisperer" is just published by J.M.Gomery [James Montgomery].'	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Sheffield Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I finished Prideaux's "Connection of the Old and New Testament" history.'	Joseph Hunter	Humphrey Prideaux	The Old and New Testament Connected	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Within these few days I could not have a book from the library because Mr E. had lent the "Castle of Otranto" to Miss...	Joseph Hunter	Horace Walpole	The Castle of Otranto	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Fetched the "Castle of Mowbray" from Lindley's Library; a very silly Love tale. Took the "Castle of Otranto" to the L...	Joseph Hunter	Mrs Harley	The Castle of Mowbray	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Brought from the library for Miss Haynes the 4 [th] vol. of Mrs Godwin's Posthumous Works. It contains Letters, one o...	Joseph Hunter	Mary Wollstonecraft	Posthumos Works, Vol IV: Letters and Miscellaneous	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Brought [...] the European Magazine for April 1798; it contains an essay on provincial Half-pennies by Joseph M[orer]...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	European Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I took Radcliffe's "Tour" to the Library; I was not so much entertained with it, as I expected tho her descriptions a...	Joseph Hunter	Ann Radcliffe	A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Returned from S. Read as I came along a considerable part of "Cotoni Posthuma" which Mr M[anley] lent me.'	Joseph Hunter	Robert Cotton	Cotoni Postuma: Divers Choice Pieces of the Renown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began to copy out of Lodge's "Illustrations", the lives of the 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th Earls of Shrewsbury; the book con...	Joseph Hunter	Edmund Lodge	Illustrations of British History	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the account of the Earls of Shrewsbury.'	Joseph Hunter	Edmund Lodge	Illustrations of British History	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began to draw out of Lodge, the monument of George 4th Earl of Shrewsbury.'	Joseph Hunter	Edmund Lodge	Illustrations of British History	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr E. brought "Fragments in the Manner of Sterne" 1797 from the library. The "Monthly Review" says it is the best imi...	Joseph Hunter	Anon	Fragments in the Manner of Sterne	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Wrote out of "Fragments" the piece upon war.'	Joseph Hunter	Anon	Fragments in the Manner of Sterne	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Brought from the Library Gifford's "Address to the loyal Association". [In margin:"A Pamphlet"] he says that he has ...	Joseph Hunter	John Gifford	A Short Address to the Members of the Loyal Association
	1700-1799	'Took "Letters from Norway & c" back to the Vestry Library. I did not read them, but Mr E. said they were very enterta...	Joseph Evans	Mary Wollstonecraft	Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Wollstoncraft's "View of the French Revolution" Vol I. It appears to rather a panegyric upon the actions of ...	Joseph Hunter	Mary Wollstonecraft	An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I begun to write in my Common-place book, the account of the King of Patterdale [from the 'Gentleman's Magazine', bor...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Took the "Gent. Mag." to the Library, & brought Frederick Morton Eden's "State of the Poor"; he gives an account of t...	Joseph Hunter	Sir Frederick Morton Eden	The State of the Poor; or an History of the Labour	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took Percy's "Reliques" to the Library [no evidence of reading this text], & brought Ireland's "Picturesque Views on ...	Joseph Hunter	Samuel Ireland	Picturesque Views of the River Thames	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We got the "Iris"; it contains an exceedingly humourous account of the first campaign of our Loyal Independant Sheffi...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Bought Mr Smith's "Sermon to the Odd Fellows", Professor Robinson's "Proof of a Conspiracy" seems to have made a deep...	Joseph Hunter	George Smith	A Sermon Delivered in the Parish Church of Sheffield
	1700-1799	'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Brought Donald Campbell's "Journey Over Land to India" [from the Library]. We had a very high character given of it &...	Joseph Hunter	Donald Campbell	A Journey Over Land to India	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I finished D. Campbell's "Journey over land to India". It is divided into three parts ... the story of Mr [Alli?] who...	Joseph Hunter	Donald Campbell	A Journey Over Land to India	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"; [borrowed from Mr Manley on visit to Stammington, July 7 1798] It has of late be...	Joseph Hunter	Lawrence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy [in 2 vols]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Whisperer or Tales & Speculations" by Gabriel Silvertongue. It was written by J. Montgomery and part o...	Joseph Hunter	James Montgomery	The Whisperer; or Tales & Speculations	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. From 7 to 8 drew part of a landscape, wrote my diary. 8 ...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	Encyclopaedia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. [...9-12 at the warehouse] 12 to 1 came to my dinner, re...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Brought Mrs Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho"; I wish I had not read it before, for upon a second reading it loses h...	Joseph Hunter	Ann Radcliffe	The Mysteries of Udolpho	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took Pennant's "View of Hindoostan" to Library; I have not read it but, Mr E. says it is very entertaining. There are...	Joseph Evans	Thomas Pennant	Outlines of the Globe: the View of Hindoostan	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Wrote out of the "Monthly Mag." an example of English hexameter. [Borrowed 'the first 12 no.s' from Miss Haynes on 1...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'"The Iris" this week contains an advertisement from the Cutler's Company [annual ball] White Bear Inn. Price 10s 6d.'	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Iris	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Wrote out of Zimmerman on "Solitude" the introduction to it. [Notes that it is a 1797 edn when borrowed on 26 Aug. 1...	Joseph Hunter	Johann Georg Zimmermann	Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took Zimmermann to the library [In margin: 'vestry']. It consists for the most part of declamation, tho' it is very i...	Joseph Hunter	Johann Georg Zimmermann	Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Saw at Book John's [In margin: A person who stands in the Market Place & sells books & of whom I have sometimes bough...	Joseph Hunter	De La Roche	New Memoirs of Literature	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have read part of Townson but I think I shall read no more as it consists of nothing [else?] but mineralogical & bo...	Joseph Hunter	Robert Townson	Travels in Hungary with a Short Account of Vienna	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took the 1st vol of Staunton to the library [borrowed on 7 Sept], & brought Townson's "Travels" ... The 1st part of S...	Joseph Hunter	Sir George Leonard Staunton	An Authentic Account from the King of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began to read Thomson's "Seasons".'	Joseph Hunter	James Thomson	The Seasons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took [the] "Answer to Wilberforce" to the Chapel Library & brought "The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797, Being...	Joseph Hunter	[unknown]	The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Wrote out of the "Spirit of the Public Journals" "Washing Day", a poem in blank verse; originally printed in the "Mon...	Joseph Hunter	[unknown]	The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I brought the "Spirit of the Journals", I did not think that it would have contributed anything towards the acco...	Joseph Hunter	[unknown]	The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Wrote also out of the "Spirit of the Journals" "a hymn for the fast day" by Captain Norrice on Foxe's Birthday.'	Joseph Hunter	[unknown]	The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took the "Spirit of the Journals" to the Chapel Library [...] there are no less than 101 Epigrams on Messrs Pitt & Du...	Joseph Hunter	[unknown]	The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took Staunton's "Embassy to China" to the Library & brought "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution...". ...	Joseph Hunter	[Anon]	Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution". I have found that considerably more of it has appe...	Joseph Hunter	[Anon]	Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The "Monthly Magazine" contains an account of the publication of that long expected work by Mr Conder of Ipswich, "an...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Wrote out of the "Analytical Review" an account of the Abbey of Glastonbury which they have extracted from Gilpin's O...	Joseph Hunter	William Gilpin	The Analytical Review; or History of Literature	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'"The Iris" in mentioning the Sessions at Sheffield says ...'	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Read a beautiful story in Pratt [borrowed on 11 Oct] concerning a decayed merchant & his daughter who had retired int...	Joseph Hunter	Samuel Jackson Pratt	Gleanings Through Wales, Holland and Westphalia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Procured a paper in form of an advertisement called "Long Faces" published Feb. 28th 1794 on the fast which was held ...	Joseph Hunter	Anon	Long Faces; Amusement for Starving Mechanics	Print: Advertisement
	1700-1799	'brought also the "Gent Mag" for Sepr 1798. [It] speaks very severly of Mr Smith's Sermon to the Odd-fellows; they say...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Thought the following remarks in Miss Williams was exceeding applicable to the manufacturers of Sheffield: "There is ...	Joseph Hunter	Helen Maria Williams	A Tour in Switzerland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Brought Wolstonecraft's "View of the French Revolution", from the Chapel Library, for Miss Haynes to read. Read in Mi...	Joseph Hunter	Hannah More	Sacred Dramas: Chiefly intended for Young Persons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Saw ... in the possession of one of our men the "Spy", a periodical printed by Crome in the year 1795, in which were ...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Spy	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Brought from the Library as a pamphlet Bunbury's "Academy for Grown Horsemen"; in some parts he is exceedingly humuro...	Joseph Hunter	Henry William Bunbury	An Academy for Grown Horsemen
	1700-1799	'It has been stated in some of the London papers that when the news [of Nelson's victory] arrived there was no appeara...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Brought the 2d number of the "Anti-Jacobin Review & Magazine", which is got into the Surry Street library instead of ...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	Anti-Jacobin Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Borrowed the "Spy" of one of our men; it is peculiarly calculated for the lower class of people. Mr Harrison a school...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Spy	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Miss Williams "Tour" is very entertaining; besides describing the scenery (which she does in a masterly manner) she g...	Joseph Hunter	Helen Maria Williams	A Tour in Switzerland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was ...	Joseph Hunter	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was ...	Joseph Evans	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-du...	Charlotte Sussannah Fry	Samuel Rogers	'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school abotch, brick dust or even saw-dus...	Charlotte Sussannah Fry	Thomas Gray	Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began to read as my Sunday Reading Benson's "Life of Christ".'	Joseph Hunter	George Benson	The History of the Life of Jesus Christ	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Brought Mrs Wolstonecraft's "Letters from Norway" [etc.] Mr Godwin in his "Life of Mrs W." speaks very highly of it.'	Joseph Hunter	William Godwin	Memoirs of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Women	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Brought the "Gents Mag" for May. It contains an advertisement for a new edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" with...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Mr Scholfield gave me a medal struck to commemorate the presentation of the colours to the Birmingham association of ...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	'Printed Description' accompanying a comemorative medal	Print: Handbill
	1700-1799	'Learnt to play those Games which are wrote down in the abbreviations in the "History of Chess".'	Joseph Hunter	Lambe Robert	The History of Chess	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took the "Curiosities of Literature" to the Library. It contains many curious things; a great part of it consists of ...	Joseph Hunter	Isaac D'Israeli	Curiosities of Literature	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Wrote out of the Register's "Mary Queen of Scotts a Monody; Written near the Ruins of Sheffield Manor". It is one of ...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	[The Annual] Register	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the 3rd Vol of Dodderidge's "Family Expositor".'	Joseph Hunter	Philip Doddridge	The Family Expositor; or a Paraphrase and Version	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took Beckman's "History of Inventions" to the Library; I have been very much entertained with it. Brought the "Gent. ...	Joseph Hunter	Johann Beckmann	A History of Inventions and Discoveries	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took the 1st vol of Lodges' "Illustrations of British History" to the Library; I brought the 2nd volume; the 5th volu...	Joseph Hunter		The European Magazine and London Review	Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'On 25.7.1799, I have seen a month or two ago, in the "Mon Mag" an account of the publication of the first part of the...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Brought the "Monthly Review" from Miss Haynes; this month they review Conder's "Arrangement of Provincial Coins", but...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Monthly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I have had it before, but have brought it now for the sake of copying a story or two out of it, of which there are ve...	Joseph Hunter	Leman Thomas Rede	Anecdotes and Biography, including many modern characters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Brought vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library [...] The author ...	Joseph Hunter	David Rivers	Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"The Memoirs of Living Authors" appears to be quite a catch-penny job. The author gives a list of their works & somet...	Joseph Hunter	David Rivers	Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Memoirs of Living Authors".'	Joseph Hunter	David Rivers	Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have not yet finished "Joan of Arc". Near 500 lines at the beginning of the 2d book were supplied by S.T. Coleridge...	Joseph Hunter	Robert Southey	Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[...] Gaze on - then heart-sick [...] It is in the first edition of this poem, that I am reading, which Southey compo...	Joseph Hunter	Robert Southey	Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'took "Joan of Arc" to the library. I think the 4 first books, are much superior to any which follow, if we except the...	Joseph Hunter	Robert Southey	Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Brought "A Fortnights Ramble to the Lakes" from the Chapel Library; also the "Analytical Review" for July 1798, to re...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	Analytical Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Brought Vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library. It is a book on ...	Joseph Hunter	David Rivers	Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Brought the "Mon Mag" from Miss Haynes. It contains an account of the death of Dr Towers.'	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Monthly Magazine	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'For the sake of improving myself in the French language, began to translate Vertot's "Revolutions of Portugal".'	Joseph Hunter	Rene Vertot	Histoire des Revolutions de Portugal	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Epistle to a Friend". I do not so much admire it as I did the "Pleasures of Memory".'	Joseph Hunter	Samuel Rogers	An Epistle to a Friend, with Other Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The anecdotes of Bowyer is to me a very entertaining book, I intend to read it through. I was much pleased with the f...	Joseph Hunter	John Nichols	Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of W Bowyer	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The following story is taken from p 248 of the anecdotes of Bowyer. Among the innumerable stories that are told of hi...	Joseph Hunter	John Nichols	Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of W Bowyer	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Gentleman's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we...	Joseph Hunter	Robert Dodsley (editor)	A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took Gibbon to the library. I have not had time to read more than one chapter being engaged with Bowyers. I can procu...	Joseph Hunter	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Took Pindar's "Tales of Hoy" to the library; I think it much inferior to most of his other publications which I have ...	Joseph Hunter	Peter Pindar	Tales of the Hoy, interspersed with song	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Went to the library. Saw in Volume 4th of Nichol's "Select Collections of Poems" a poetical account of the monuments ...	Joseph Hunter	John Nichols	A Select Collection of Poems; with notes (Vol IV)	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he ...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Iris	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he ...	Joseph Evans	Patrick Colquhoun	Treatise of the police of the metrpolis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Dr Marwick advertises again.'	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Iris	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read Home's "tragedy of Douglas", I was much pleased with it. I have seen it remarked, I believe in the "Memoirs of L...	Joseph Hunter	John Home	Douglas: A Tragedy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the SS Library having only read a few of the letters which did not please ...	Joseph Hunter	Samuel Jackson Pratt	Gleanings in England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Foote's "Farce of the Minor"; I do not admire it near as much as I do the Mayor of Garratt.'	Joseph Hunter	Samuel Foote	The Minor, A Comedy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think Mrs Montague [sic] has fully vindicated Shakespeare from the objections of Voltaire [...] Her three dialogues...	Joseph Hunter	Elizabeth Robinson Montagu	An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read in the vol of plays lent me by my father, the farce of "Catherine and Petruchio"; abridged from Shakespeare's pl...	Joseph Hunter	David Garrick	Catharine and Petruchio. A Comedy Altered from Shakespeare	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Brought...a translation of the Greek, Latin, French and Italian quotations in the "Pursuits of Literature" which I ha...	Joseph Hunter	Thomas Mathias	A Translation of the Passages from Greek, Latin, French and Italian in the Pursuits of Literature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It being the Saturday previous to the annual meeting at the SS Library I was oblig[e]d to return, rather unwillingly,...	Joseph Hunter	James Thomas Kirkman	Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin Esq	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Iris" contains an advertisement of a book being published intitled "A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More's Stri...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Iris	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'She [Mrs Montagu] is characterised in this manner in the first part of the "Pursuits of Literature"; comparing the co...	Joseph Hunter	Thomas James Mathias	The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the first 3 parts of the "Pursuits of Literature", of these the first I admire the most. There are people who wi...	Joseph Hunter	Thomas James Mathias	The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the last play in the Series on the passions. The subject of it is Hatred. It is a tragedy & the title is De Mont...	Joseph Hunter	Joanna Baillie	A Series of Plays In Which It is Attempted to Deli	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Dryden's comedy of the Spanish Fryar, was not much pleased with it.'	Joseph Hunter	John Dryden	The Spanish Fryar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There is an advertisement prefixed to this number of the "Copper Plate Magazine", in which is given a list of the pla...	Joseph Hunter	John Walker	Copper-Plate Magazine	Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Finished the last vol of Beckmann's "History of Inventions"; I do not know the book that contains a greater variety o...	Joseph Hunter	Johann Beckmann	A History of Inventions and Discoveries	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Letter to Barbara Leigh Smith from Bessie Raynor Parkes, 19 March 1856: 'What shall I say about Goethe? When I have do...	Bessie Raynor Parkes	George Henry Lewes	Life of Goethe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chattin...	Mrs Robinson	[n/a]	Athenaum	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Transcript of essay, under the heading 'Today'] 'Today. New Monthly Magazine for January 1823'	Charles Holte Bracebridge	[n/a]	New Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	[3 July 1797] 'brought the 2nd vol of the "Antiquarian Repertory"; I had read it before but there was a picture in it ...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	The Antiquarian Repertory [Vol II of 4 vols]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Wish' 'Oh! Had we some bright little isle of our own,... S.W. 1821'	'S.W.'	Thomas Moore	Oh had we some bright little isle	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I do not care for a First Folio ofShakespeare. I rather prefer the common editions of Rowe and Tonson, without notes,...	Charles Lamb	William Shakespeare	The Works of Mr William Shakespeare; in six volumes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite re...	Charles Lamb	John Milton	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"'	John Fortescue Aland	Nathaniel Marshall	A defence of our constitution in church and state	Unknown
	1800-1849	'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [.....	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Livy (Titus Livius)	History of Rome Book XIII	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'S----was reading in "Evenings at Home" the story of "A Friend in need is a Friend Indeed" ...[when he commented on th...		John Aikin	Evenings at Home	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter from Maria Edgeworth to A.L.Barbauld, dated 26/2/1806, tells about this younger brother, who has just left the ...	C.S. Edgeworth	John Aikin	Evenings at Home	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The logic of this book [Paley's Evidences] and as I may add of his Natural Theology gave me as much delight as did Eu...	Charles Darwin	William Paley	Natural Theology	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Joseph Addison	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Oliver Goldsmith	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Francis Bacon	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Richard Steele	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Thomas De Quincey	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he...	Sir John Hammerton	Charles Lamb	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when rea...	Victoria of Prussia	[unknown]	The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest relig	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children's books as ther are now...Now, among those very stupid...	Charles Kingsley	John Aikin	Evenings at home	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariost...	Thomas Carlyle	Ludovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariost...	Thomas Carlyle	Eaton Stannard Barrett	Six Weeks at Long's	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope.	Frances Hamilton	R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester)	The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscellanies with historical notes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the deat...	Frances Hamilton	[unknown]	Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Two very long quotations: 1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescr...	Frances Hamilton	M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu	Spirit of Laws	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it.	Frances Hamilton	John Mead	[Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitants of Nottingham]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension wil...	Frances Hamilton	[unknown]	The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time	Print: Book
	1700-1799	content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader h...	Frances Hamilton	[unknown]	A Letter to Earl Stanhope
	1700-1799	'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes. 'Vol 2 Agamemnon. N.B. A ...	Frances Hamilton	Aeschylus	The Tragedies of Aeschylus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	24 Oct 1788: 'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to ...	Frances Hamilton	Rev William Smith	Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime	Print: Book
	1700-1799	13 Dec 1788 Another long quotation from Smith's translation: 'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from th...	Frances Hamilton	Rev William Smith	Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby. 'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for...	Frances Hamilton	Rev J Granger	Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, with a preface. Vol 1 and 2	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France: 'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too ...	Frances Hamilton	[unknown]	Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-so...	Thomas Carlyle	Friedrich Schiller	Geschichte des dreissigj?hrigen Kriegs	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at time...	Thomas Carlyle	John Scott	'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The London Magazine'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo...	[unknown student] anon	Walter Scott	Kenilworth	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo...	[unknown student] anon		Blackwood's magazine	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l...	Joseph Stamper	Edward L. Wheeler	Deadwood Dick	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	Bronco Bill	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	Jack Wright	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w...	Joseph Stamper	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Hiawatha	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w...	Joseph Stamper	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Evangeline	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w...	Joseph Stamper	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w...	Joseph Stamper	John Keats	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w...	Joseph Stamper	Homer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w...	Joseph Stamper	Pliny the Younger	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w...	Joseph Stamper	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'When, a year later, a senior apprentice -a Clarion Scout -gave me a copy of the penny edition of Blatchford's "Merrie...	Thomas A. Jackson	Robert Blatchford	Merrie England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...	Thomas A. Jackson	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...	Thomas A. Jackson	Walter Scott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...	Thomas A. Jackson	William Makepeace Thackeray	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...	Thomas A. Jackson	Joseph Addison	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...	Thomas A. Jackson	Daniel Defoe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...	Thomas A. Jackson	Henry Fielding	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...	Thomas A. Jackson	Tobias Smollett	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...	Thomas A. Jackson	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...	Thomas A. Jackson	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We had, at home, a huge Family Bible -one of the brass-bound sort -with fine fat type and hundreds of illustrations. ...	Thomas A. Jackson	[n/a]	The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Next to the Bible in time, and soon superseding it in practice were four volumes of Cassell's Illustrated History of ...	Thomas A. Jackson	[n/a]	Cassells Illustrated History of England	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some old volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other...	Thomas A. Jackson	Charles Dickens	[novels]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Joseph Addison	Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Homer	Illiad	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Walter Scott	Waverley Novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	William Shakespeare	[plays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Henry Fielding	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Tobias Smollett	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Fennimore Cooper	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Captain Marryatt	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...	Thomas A. Jackson	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into volumes
	1850-1899	'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops a...	Thomas A. Jackson	Thomas Babington Macaulay	History of England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops a...	Thomas A. Jackson	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Warren Hastings	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in...	Thomas A. Jackson	George Grote	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in...	Thomas A. Jackson	John Keble	The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holy Days throughout the Year	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in...	Thomas A. Jackson	Jeremy Taylor	Holy Living	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I took Lubbock's List as a guide in my book hunting and persevered until I had acquired and read every single book in...	Thomas A. Jackson	Jeremy Taylor	Holy Dying	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'This preoccupation with the sensuous form I experienced most obviously and acutely when I read with mounting exciteme...	Thomas A. Jackson	Edmund Spenser	Faery Queene	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'But by a lucky chance I happened upon a book included in Lubbock's "hundred" -George Henry Lewes's "Biographical Hist...	Thomas A. Jackson	George Henry Lewes	Biographical History of Philosophy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	Samuel Daniel	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	[probably] Isaac Hawkins Browne	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	Giles Fletcher	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	Phineas Fletcher	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	Ben Jonson	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	William Drummond	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	John Donne	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	Abraham Cowley	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	John Milton	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...	Thomas A. Jackson	Samuel Butler	[poems complete works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There is a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first ed...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Aubuisson	Traite de geognoise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I...	Thomas Carlyle	Friedrich Schiller	Wallenstein	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant ...	Thomas Carlyle	Joanna Baillie	Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and t...	Thomas Carlyle	Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein	De l'Allemagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is ...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Carlyle	Life of Pascal	Manuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text
	1800-1849	'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading...	Cassandra Leigh Austen	John Carr	Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles, in the year 1809	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ...	Mrs Digweed	James and Horatio Smith	Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Holy Scriptures	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	Penny Dreadfuls	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a...	Joseph Stamper	Richard Church	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'When I was a youth I envied others having this capacity to make close friends. I even bought a book, "How To Make Fri...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	How to make friends and influence people	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ...	Joseph Stamper	Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood	East Lynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual l...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	[notice]	Manuscript: Graffito
	1850-1899	'There is a book you may have come across, and that was read a lot when I was young, called the Bible. I used to read ...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I coul...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	[notice]	Print: Advertisement, Poster
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'None of the periodicals shown there are alive today. There was "Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday", my favourite comic. When...	Joseph Stamper	Charles Henry Ross	Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the pol...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Police News	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the pol...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Police Budget	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Sketchy Bits	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Photo Bits	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh...	Joseph Stamper	Edward L. Wheeler	Deadwood Dick	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Heartsease Library	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r...	Joseph Stamper	Mrs Henry [Ellen] Wood	The Channings	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r...	Joseph Stamper	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	Lady Audley's Secret	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to...	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & F...	Cassandra Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'...went along to the reference room of the public library to look up data on African trees. I searched the shelves an...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came t...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	Young People's First Book of Trees	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Strand Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Windsor	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	Pearson's	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si...	Joseph Stamper	Thomas More	Utopia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si...	Joseph Stamper	William Morris	[prose works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si...	Joseph Stamper	William Morris	The Story of the Unknown Church	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si...	Joseph Stamper	Edward Bellamy	Looking Backwards	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with...	Joseph Hunter	[n/a]	Monthly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand...	Joseph Stamper	[anon]	Guy's Expositor	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a po...	Joseph Stamper	[n/a]	[Penny Poets]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...'	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" ...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	Quain's Anatomy	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One ...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	[Astronomy and spectrum analysis]	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks w...	Joseph Stamper	[unknown]	[Astronomy and spectrum analysis]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I rose early this morning, and looked over and corrected my brother John's speech which he is to make the next Apposi...	Samuel Pepys	John Pepys	[speech]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, thoug...	Samuel Pepys	John Pepys	[speech]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, thoug...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writin...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of ...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	The humble address and hearty desires of the gentlemen, ministers and free-holders of the county of Northampton, presented to his Excellency the Lord General Monck, at his arrival at Northampton January, 24, 1659	Print: Broadsheet
	1600-1699	'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger p...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Book of Tobit	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de Roma	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'...and back to Pauls churchyard, where I stayed reading in Fullers history of the Church of England an hour or two...'	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The church-history of Britain	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and ...	Samuel Pepys	Roger L'Estrange [? probably]	A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established in this nation, before the late war. In a humble address to his Excellency, General Monck
	1600-1699	'My Lord and the ship's company down to Sermon. I stayed above to write and look over my new song-book, which came las...	Samuel Pepys	[Playford]	Select ayres and dialogues	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I r...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I r...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Common Prayer Book	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up to my chamber to read a little, and write my Diary for three or four days past.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	'In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speeds geography for a while.'	Samuel Pepys	John Speed	A prospect of the most famous parts of the world	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And before supper I read part of the Maryan persecution in Mr Fuller.'	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The church-history of Britain	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And so home, where I fell to read "The fruitlesse precaution" (a book formerly recommended by Dr Clerke at sea to me)...	Samuel Pepys	Paul Scarron	The Fruitlesse Precaution	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'but went home again by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night...	Samuel Pepys	Paul Scarron	The Fruitlesse Precaution	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'To Westminster-hall and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queene. Which I read at home to my wife; bu...	Samuel Pepys	John Dauncey	The history of the thrice illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen of England	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s....	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	Masse Book	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which ...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[law book?]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfac...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicides	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicides	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so a...	Samuel Pepys	[John] [Phillips?]	Montelion, the prophetical almanac for the year 1661	Print: almanac
	1600-1699	'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this yeardoth not prove so good as the last was; and so af...	Samuel Pepys	John Tatham	The Rump, or The mirror of the late times	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'To church in the afternoon. And after sermon took Tom. Fuller's "Church History" and read over Henry the 8ths life - ...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The church-history of Britain	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After he was gone, I fell a-reading "Cornelianum Dolium" till 11 a-clock at night, with great pleasure; and after tha...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Randolph	Cornelianum Dolium	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The church-history of Britain	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After that home and to bed - reading myself asleep while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	'All evening at my book; and so to supper and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The church-history of Britain	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and I, before and after supper, to my Lute and Fullers "History", at which I stayed all alone in my Chamber till 12 a...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The church-history of Britain	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At home I fell a-reading of Fullers "Church History" till it was late, and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The church-history of Britain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me...	James Austen	Eaton Stannard Barrett	The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'	Samuel Pepys	Francis Osborne	[works]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'	Samuel Pepys	Emanuel Tesauro	Patriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, per mundi aetates traducta	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[French Romances]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and rea...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[Good books]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[book]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Then home - I to read.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[book]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Then to reading and at night to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[book]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'earley up in the morning to read the "Seamans grammar and dictionary" I lately have got, which doth please me exceedi...	Samuel Pepys	John Smith	The sea-man's grammar	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This day I find in the news-Booke that Rogr. Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place that we hear...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	The Kingdomes Intelligencer	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'And then I up to my chamber to read.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him read...	Sir William Coventry	Thomas Cross	Sternhold and Hopkins Psalms	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And in the garden reading "Faber fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Francis Bacon	Faber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitae	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended m...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Middleton	The Spanish Gypsy	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present ti...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Pepys	The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles ...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Pepys	The Will of Robert Pepys of Brampton	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely b...	Samuel Pepys	Richard Hooker	Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'...which makes me remember my father Osborne's rule for a gentleman, to spare in all things rather than in that.'	Samuel Pepys	Francis Osborne	Advice to a son	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and all the day, as I was at leisure, I did read in Fuller's "Holy Warr" (which I have of late bought) and did try to...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The historie of the holy warr	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[chancery Bill drawn against Trice]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a ve...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Hobbes	Of libertie and necessitie	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a ve...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown- little but shrewd piece]	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	'and so I left them with him and went with Mr Moore to Grayes Inne to his chamber, and there he showed me his old Camb...	Samuel Pepys	William Camden	Britannia	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'at the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'	Samuel Pepys	John Selden	Mare Clausum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'we returned and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum" till bedtime'	Samuel Pepys	John Selden	Mare Clausum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trices answer to my bill in Chancery from Mr Smallwood, which I am gla...	Samuel Pepys	T Trice	[answer to Pepys's bill]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogethe...	Samuel Pepys	John Selden	Mare Clausum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogethe...	Samuel Pepys	Hugo Grotius	Mare Liberum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home and to supper and to Selden "Mare Clausum" and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Selden	Mare Clausum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And so I home, and sat late up, reading of Mr Selden. And so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Selden	Mare Clausum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So after my business was done and read something in Mr Selden, I went to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Selden	Mare Clausum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so left the table and went up to read in Mr Selden till church time;'	Samuel Pepys	John Selden	Mare Clausum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So we parted; and I home and to Mr Selden and then to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Selden	Mare Clausum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We have called upon Miss Dusautoy and Miss Papillon & been very pretty. - Miss D. has a great idea of being Fanny Pri...	[Miss] Dusautoy	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclinati...	James Stanier Clarke	Jane Austen	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You were very good to send me Emma - which I have in no respect deserved. It is gone to the Prince Regent. I have re...	James Stanier Clarke	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec...	Countess of Morley	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec...	Countess of Morley	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec...	Countess of Morley	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec...	Countess of Morley	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Seldon	Mare Clausum
	1600-1699	'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	Additional evidences... relating to the reigns of K. James and K. Charles	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up ...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Then to Pauls churchyard, and there I met with Dr: Fullers "Englands worthys" - the first time that I ever saw it; an...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	History of the worthies of England	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'My cold being increased, I stayed home all day, pleasing myself with my dining-room, now graced with pictures, and re...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	History of the worthies of England	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	The Kingdomes Intelligencer	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'went to Westminster-hall and there bought Mr Grant's book of observations upon the weekly bills of Mortality - which ...	Samuel Pepys	John Graunt	Natural and political observations... made upon the bills of mortality	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had...	Samuel Pepys	Fields	[petition]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had...	Sir William Penn	Fields	[petition]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in "The Wallflower" w...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Bayly	Herba Parietis or The wall-flower, as it grew out of the stone chamber belonging to Newgate, being a history which is partly true, partly romantick, morally devine, whereby a marriage between reality and fancy is solemnized by divinity	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up earely; and after reading a little in Cicero, I made me ready and to my office - where all the morning busy.'	Samuel Pepys	Cicero	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At my office all the morning, reading Mr Holland's discourse of the Navy, lent me by Mr Turner; and am much pleased w...	Samuel Pepys	John Holland	[discourse on Naval administration]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	'Then we fell to reading of a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwichs, entended for the late King, finely ...	Samuel Pepys	Tobias Gentleman	Englands way to win wealth... with a true relation of the inestimable wealth that is yearely taken out of His Majesties seas by the Hollanders	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of...	Samuel Pepys	Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas	Divine weekes and workes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home and to supper. And after reading part of "Bussy D'Ambois", a good play I bought today - to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	George Chapman	Bussy D'Ambois	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time ...	Samuel Pepys	Playford	Dancing Master OR English Dancing Master	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then to the office and there examining my Copy of Mr Hollands book till 10 at night; and so home to supper and bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Holland	[discourse on Naval administration]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to the office again and made an end of examining the other of Mr Hollands books about the Navy, with which I a...	Samuel Pepys	John Holland	[second discourse on Naval administration]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a pl...	Samuel Pepys	John Fletcher	A wife for a month	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there read...	Samuel Pepys	[anon]	A treatise of taxes and contributions	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote a...	Samuel Pepys	John Heydon	Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle...	Samuel Pepys	Ovid	Metamorphoses	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining part of my Sea=manuscript with great ple...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[Sea Manuscript]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'This day I bought the second part of Dr Bates's "Elenchus", which reaches to the fall of Richard and no further, for ...	Samuel Pepys	George Bate	Elenchi motuum nuperorum in Anglia pars secunda	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This day I read the King's speech to the parliament yesterday; which is very short and not very obliging, but only te...	Samuel Pepys	King Charles II	His Majesties gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, February the 18th, 1662
	1600-1699	'Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Co...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[Writ]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[playbill]	Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
	1600-1699	'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Print: BookUnknown
	1600-1699	'Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morni...	Samuel Pepys	John Brown	The use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or glasiers) rule... for the measuring of timber, either round or square	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[Spanish books]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up and spent the morning till the Barber came in reading in my chamber part of Osborne's "Advice to his Son" (which I...	Samuel Pepys	Francis Osborne	Advice to his son	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Print: BookUnknown
	1600-1699	'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	Navy precedents	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comission...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[Report of the proceedings of the commission of 1618]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with my new Sliding rule, brought...	Samuel Pepys	John Brown	Description and use of the carpenter's rule	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up betimes and to my office, where I first ruled with red Inke my English "Mare clausum"; which, with the new Orthodo...	Samuel Pepys	John Selden	Mare Clausum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'Thence to the Temple and sat there till one a-clock, reading at Playford's in Dr Ushers "Body of Divinity" his discou...	Samuel Pepys	James Ussher	A body of divinitie	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Kingdom Intelligence	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	A vindication of the degree of gentry in opposition to titular honours, and the humour of riches being the measure of honours. Done by a person of quality	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home and read to my wife a Fable or two in Ogleby's "Aesop"; and so to supper and then to prayers and to bed'	Samuel Pepys	Aesop	Aesop's Fables	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence by water to Chelsy, all the way reading a little book I bought of Improvement of trade, a pretty book and many...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Fortrey	Englands interest and improvement consisting in the increase of...trade [or] Short notes and observations drawn from the present decaying condition of this kingdom in point of trade	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At the Coffee-house in Exchange=alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders", written by Sir Balth. Gerbier; ...	Samuel Pepys	Sir Balth. Gerbier	Counsel and advise to all builders; for the choice of their surveyours... Together with several epistles to eminent persons, who may be concerned in building	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five houres adventures"; which though I have seen it twice,...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Tuck	The Adventures of five houres	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Begun again to rise betimes, by 4 a-clock. And made an end of "The Adventures of five houres", and it is a most excel...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Tuck	The Adventures of five houres	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[Statute book]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up and to read a little;'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best...	Samuel Pepys	[Samuel] [Newman]	A concordance to the Holy Scriptures	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up betimes and fell to reading my Latin grammer, which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my ...	Samuel Pepys	William Lily	A short introduction of grammar... of the Latine tongue	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Print: BookUnknown
	1600-1699	'At noon my physic having done working, I went down to dinner. And then he [Mr Creede] and I up again and spent the mo...	Samuel Pepys	Cicero	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lat...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[books on timber measuring and tides]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a...	Samuel Pepys	[Thomas] [Southland]	Love a la mode	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up and to my office; and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's "faber Fortune", which the oftener I read the more ...	Samuel Pepys	Francis Bacon	Faber Fortune	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So down to Deptford, reading Ben Johnsons "Devil is an Asse".'	Samuel Pepys	Ben Johnson	Devil is an Asse	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'walked to see Sir W. Penn at Deptford, reading by the way a most ridiculous play, a new one call[ed] "The Politician ...	Samuel Pepys	Alexander Green	The Politician cheated	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an h...	Samuel Pepys	Sir John Birkenhead	Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private design	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night f...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'So home and at my office reading my vowes;'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's lo...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence home and examined a piece of Latin of Will's with my brother, and so to prayers and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Will Hewer	[piece of Latin, practice translation probably]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she wa...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown - recipes]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home ...	Samuel Pepys	[Robert] [Wild]	Iter boreale	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's w...	Samuel Pepys	[Robert] [L'Estrange]	The Intelligencer	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'This day I read a proclamacion for calling in and commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristoll.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[proclamation]	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
	1600-1699	'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there sea...	Samuel Pepys	John Day	[Will]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'And then met my uncle Thomas by appointment, and he and I to the Prearogative Office in Paternoster Row and there sea...	Samuel Pepys	Beatrice Day	[Will]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a p...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys]	Print: Handbill
	1600-1699	'At night fell to reading in the "Church History" of Fullers, and perticularly Cranmers letter to Queen Elizabeth, whi...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	Church-History	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a foo...	Sir John Mennes [or Minnes]	[unknown]	[anatomy of the body]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'So home and my wife and I together all the evening, discoursing; and then after reading my vowes to myself... we hast...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	Church History	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence home and I spent most of the evening upon Fullers "Church History" and Barcklys "Argenis"; and so after supper...	Samuel Pepys	John Barclay	Argenis	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", w...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Butler	Hudibras	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After a little discourse with him, I took coach and home, calling upon my booksellers for two books, Rushworths and S...	Samuel Pepys	John Rushworth	Historical Collections	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[Arithmetic books]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I to my office and spent an hour or two reading Rushworth; and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed'	Samuel Pepys	John Rushworth	Historical Collections	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Rushworth	Historical Collections	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to my office and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Rushworth	Historical Collections	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'In the evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which...	Samuel Pepys	John Rushworth	Historical Collections	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'He being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in ...	Samuel Pepys	John Rushworth	Historical Collections	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscov...	Samuel Pepys	Adam Olearius	The voyages and travels of the ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And so home with great ease and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought yesterday;...	Samuel Pepys	Angelo Corraro	Rome exactly described... in two curious discourses	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At night made an end of the discourse I read this morning, and so home to supper and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Angelo Corraro	Rome exactly described... in two curious discourses	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by ...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	[bill advertising cockfight]	Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
	1600-1699	'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[on the globes]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'In the evening to the office, where I stayed late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the begi...	Samuel Pepys	John Rushworth	Historical Collection	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a...	Samuel Pepys	John Rusthworth	Historical Collection	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very pretti...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books an...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[Spanish books]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home, reading all the way a good book;'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[lecture on the globes]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among other...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	Love a Cheate	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent ...	Samuel Pepys	J Blaeu	Theatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipuarum mundi theatrum quintum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent ...	Samuel Pepys	Antonius Sanderus	Flandria Illustrata	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too...	Samuel Pepys	Francis Bacon	Faber Fortunae	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so up to my wife and with great mirth read Sir W Davenents two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way ...	Samuel Pepys	Sir Davenant	The first day's entertainment at Rutland House, by declamations and music, after the manner of the ancients	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'calling at St Pauls churchyard and there looked upon a pretty Burlesque poem called "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty...	Samuel Pepys	Charles Cotton	Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?I regret to see one or two errors in the first Volume, though I have the consolation of believing that none but pract...	Charles Dickens	Charles Dickens	The Black Veil	Print: Book
	1800-1849	?I forward you a Chronicle with Hogarth?s beautiful notice.?	Charles Dickens		The Morning Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	?I see honorable mention of myself, and Mr. Pickwick?s politics, in Fraser this month. They consider Mr. P a decided W...	Charles Dickens		Fraser's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one m...	Charles Dickens	unknown	submissions to Bentley's Miscellany	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	?I shall certainly have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, and will turn over the prospectus in my mind, meanwhile.?	Charles Dickens	Richard Bentley	Prospectus for Bentley?s Miscellany	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	?Dr Milligen?s paper, he must re-write the last half of it; it has cost me three hours this morning, and I can make no...	Charles Dickens	John Gideon Millingen	The Portrait Gallery	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Abraham Austin, carpenter and joiner, examined. I saw James... on Sunday morning again at my house, when he read the ...	James Hocker	[n/a]	Lloyd's Weekly London News	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and wa...	Charles Dickens	Henry Fielding	The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	?I send you herewith, the forthcoming Miscellany, with my glance at the new poor Law Bill.?	Charles Dickens		Poor Law Bill	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	?My dear Sir, I have looked over Uncle Sam, and am still of the opinion I originally formed, that we could not use ...	Charles Dickens	G.P. Payne	Uncle Sam's Peculiarities	Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
	1800-1849	?My dear Sir, I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself th...	Charles Dickens	Zschokke	Blue Wonder	Print: UnknownUnknown
	1800-1849	?My dear Sir, I inclose the Blue Wonder and the Nights at Sea. I think if you read the last, you may save yourself th...	Charles Dickens	Matthew Barker	Nights at Sea	Print: UnknownUnknown
	1800-1849	?I have read the several articles by Major Pryse Gordon, which I herewith return. Although they would possess consider...	Charles Dickens	Major Pryse Lockhart Gordon	[articles]	Print: UnknownUnknown
	1800-1849	?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the l...	Charles Dickens		The Examiner	Print: Newspaper, Unknown
	1800-1849	?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the l...	Charles Dickens	B.W. Proctor	'The Sea'	Print: Book, Unknown
	1850-1899	'I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands....	Thomas Okey	William Shakespeare	[works]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, ...	Thomas Okey	[n/a]	The Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, ...	Thomas Okey	John Foxe	Book of Martyrs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Readers of my generation owe a great debt of gratitude to the enterprise of Messrs. Dicks. My first introduction to g...	Thomas Okey	Sir Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Later I had determined to spend a Whit-Monday at the Alexandra Palace, and on my way thither bought an eighteen-penny...	Thomas Okey	Thomas Carlyle	Sartor Resartus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...	Thomas Okey	[Thomas Peckett] [Prest]	Sweeney Todd the Barber	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...	Thomas Okey	[unknown]	Dick Turpin	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...	Thomas Okey	[unknown]	Spring-heeled Jack	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...	Thomas Okey	[unknown]	Claude Duval	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...	Thomas Okey	[unknown]	Edith the Captive	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...	Thomas Okey	[unknown]	Edith Heron	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...	Thomas Okey	[n/a]	Boys of England	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...	Thomas Okey	Bracebridge Hemyng	Jack Harkaway	Print: Serial / periodical
	1600-1699	'This day Mrs Turner did lend me, as a rarity, a manuscript of one of Mr Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of ...	Samuel Pepys	John Wells	[manuscript on ship building]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'We spent the day in pleasant talk and company one with another (reading in Dr Fullers book what he says of the family...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and Deptford to look after the despatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr Spe...	Samuel Pepys	John Spencer	A discourse containing prodigies; wherein the vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted and vindicated	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[books about the Navy]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'My dear Ross, Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency ...	Charles Dickens	Charles Ross	The Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowledge	Unknown
	1600-1699	'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Pr...	Charles Dickens	William Harrison Ainsworth	Rookwood	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also return the Grimaldi MS. I have thought the matter over, and looked it over, too. It is very badly done, and is...	Charles Dickens	Wilks	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Did you ever read-of course you have though-Defoe?s history of the Devil? What a capital thing it is. I bought it for...	Charles Dickens	Daniel Defoe	The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have many things to acknowledge, but let me take them in turn. Firstly, I have to thank you for your verses. Need I...	Charles Dickens	George Cox	[MS verses]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Madam, I have read the paper you were kind enough to forward to me, and very much regret that I cannot avail myself ...	Charles Dickens	Miss Reynolds	unknown	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'My Dear Sir, As you have long since ceased to be ?a colt? in the periodical paddock, you will not be surprised at my...	Charles Dickens	Thomas Gaspey	The Grand Juror	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'There is also among the papers, one piece of absurdity by Mr. Grantley Berkely, called ?Chariot versus coach? which I...	Charles Dickens	Grantley Berkely	Chariot versus coach	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'Sir I very much regret that your note has so long remained unanswered. It was put aside among some answered letters,...	Charles Dickens	Edward Oliver	unknown	Manuscript: Sheet, UnknownUnknown
	1800-1849	'Dr. Sir. Poets tell us that love is blind ? I fear indifference is more so. It is many months since I sent you a sli...	Charles Dickens	John Forster	[works]	Print: BookManuscript: SheetUnknown
	1600-1699	'And after dinner to the Change a little and then to Whitehall, where anon the Duke of York came and a Committee we ha...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[contract]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'We read over the contract together and discoursed it well over and so parted'	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[contract]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'Thence home and to my office; wrote by the post, and then to read a little in Dr Powre's book of discovery by the Mic...	Samuel Pepys	Henry Power	Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After dinner, to my chamber and made an end of Dr Powre's book of the Microscope, very fine and to my content'	Samuel Pepys	Henry Power	Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to supper anon and then to my office again a while, collecting observations out of Dr Powres book of Microscop...	Samuel Pepys	Henry Power	Experimental philosophy...containing new experiments microscopical, mercurial, magnetical	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After dinner I down to Woolwich with a galley, and then to Deptford and so home, all the way reading Sir J Suck[l]ing...	Samuel Pepys	Sir John Sucklings	Aglaura	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home and late reading "The Siege of Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed - my head being in great pain and my palat...	Samuel Pepys	William Davenant	The Siege of Rhodes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So anon they went away and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the Country", which is a very poor one methin...	Samuel Pepys	John Fletcher	The Custome of the Country	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'but I spent all morning reading of "The Madd Lovers" - a very good play'	Samuel Pepys	John Fletcher	The mad lover	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain...	Samuel Pepys	[Captain] [Fisher?]	[papers]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [probably]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way...	Samuel Pepys	John Herne	The law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43. Eliz. chap. 4 is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statute	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to London; which I did, but spoke not to her all ...	Samuel Pepys	John Herne	The law of charitable uses, wherein the statute of 43. Eliz. chap. 4 is set forth and explained; with directions how to sue out and prosecute commissions grounded upon that statute	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to s...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's "Cateline", a very excellent piece.'	Samuel Pepys	Ben Jonson	Cateline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs C read me part of Murray's Power of religion.'	[Mrs] Cole	Lindley Murray	Power of Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.'	James Montgomery	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Doge of Venice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just been looking over the trial of Mr Corder for the murder of Maria Martin.'	Thomas Cape	unknown	[report on trial]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Read "Pot-Bouille"; "Pot-Bouille" made me laugh, there is one good character'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Emile Zola	Pot-Bouille	Print: Book
	1600-1699	Heere is the well where waters flow, To quench our heat of sinne, Heere is the tree where truth doth grow To lead o...	Susanna Beckwith		The Bible, that is, etc. [Geneva Bible]	Print: Book
		Marginalia Many pencil sidelines in the Introduction. Donne, against l.52 "cf Good Friday" Herbert, The Collar ...	Francis Robert Longworth-Dames	Herbert J C Grierson	Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the seventeenth century	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'il resolut de lire encore l'Evangile' (he resolved to read the Gospel again): is converted to Christianity and baptis...	'Le Juif baptise' (The Baptised Jew)		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	When 8 or 9, 'my Father seeing I took Pleasure in learning my Book, he bestowed a Tutor on me ...' Reads Talmud etc. -...	Moses Marcus		Bible (New Testament)	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'She spent much time in reading the Scripture, and a Book called The best friend in the worst of times ... Another Boo...	Sarah Howley		Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'a Bible lying near her, she took it up, and opened it in the presence of the Company, who observing what place it was...	Sarah Bower		Gospel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were chil...	Anne Isabella Thackeray	Sir Henry Cole	The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book	Print: Book
	1700-1799	From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of Oc...	James Herriot	[n/a]	Kelso Mail	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	?Miss Burney I am come to thank you for the vast entertainment you have given me; ? I am quite happy to see you,? I wi...	Susanna Dobson	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Then home to dinner; and after dinner to read in Rushworths "Collections" about the charge against the late Duke of B...	Samuel Pepys	John Rushworth	Historical Collections	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's "Microscopicall Observacions", the...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Hooke	Micrographia [?]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I sat down and read over the Bishop of Chichesters sermon upon the anniversary of the King's death - much cried up bu...	Samuel Pepys	Dr Henry King	A sermon preached the 30th of January...1664	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and by and by comes a letter from Mr Coventry's own hand to him; which he never opened (which was a strange thing) bu...	Samuel Pepys	Sir William Coventry	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	'This day the News-book (upon Mr Moores showing Lestrange Captain Ferrers letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right ...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	The Newes	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I met this noon with Dr Burnett, who told me, and I find in the news-book this week that he posted upon the Change, t...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	The Intelligencer	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'and so we set out for Chatham - in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding single, he...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[copy of verses]	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	'At night home and supped; and after reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed overmuch with busines...	Samuel Pepys	Abraham Cowley	[poems]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings "works", which is a noble book - to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[King] [Charles I]	The workes of Charles I	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.'	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Porter	The Villaine	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[a play]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first cons...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Bill of Mortality	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
	1600-1699	'and there sent for the Weekely Bill and find 8252 dead in all, and of them 6978 of the plague - which is a most dread...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Bill of Mortality	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
	1600-1699	'We spent most of the morning talking, and reading of "The Seige of Rhodes", which is certainly (the more I read it I ...	Samuel Pepys	Sir William Davenant	The Seige of Rhodes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So after supper Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to Cards for a while, and then to read a...	Samuel Pepys	Sir William Davenant	The Seige of Rhodes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[parliamentary bill]
	1600-1699	'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[book about painting]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh...	Samuel Pepys	John Evelyn	Hortus Hyemalis	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Bill of Mortality	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
	1600-1699	'Thence back by water to Captain Cockes, and there he and I spent a great deal of the evening, as we had done the day,...	Samuel Pepys	Edward Stillingfleete	Origines Sacrae, or A rational account of the grounds of Christian faith, as to the truth and divine authority of the scriptures	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique", upon the strife...	Samuel Pepys	Antoine Furetiere	Nouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers troubles arrivez au royaume d'eloquence	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up, and after being trimmed, I alone by water to Erith, all the way with my song-book singing of Mr Laws's long recit...	Samuel Pepys	Henry Lawes	Ayres and dialogues	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote ...	Samuel Pepys	Sir Joseph Williamson	Oxford Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'but we had breakfasted a little at Mr Gawdens, he being out of town though; and there borrowed Dr Taylors Sermons, an...	Samuel Pepys	Jeremy Taylor	A collection of polemical discourses, wherein the Church of England in its worst as well as more flourishing condition, is defended	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, we...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Oliver Goldsmith	The Vicar of Wakefield	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I read about one book per day.'	John H.S. Craig	various	various	Print: Advertisement, Book, Form, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster, Serial / periodical, Unknown
	1700-1799	'we came back in the dark and read "L'Ecole des Maris" and after we played at 21'	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Moliere [pseud.]	L'Ecole des Maris	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I got up very late and ate a large breakfast after which I prayed and read with Mama almost till dinner time'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper'	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Thomas a Kempis	The Imitation of Jesus Christ	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	[27th December]'I took my lessons and learnt part of a superb tragedy in german called "Don Carlos" with Mr Jaegle.' ...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Friedrich Schiller	Don Carlos in German	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'This evening we read a fine trajedy by Corneille where there are many noble characters Emily has such strength and su...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Pierre Corneille	Cinna	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I read a little of "Robinson Crusoe" that is how I spent my evening'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The weather was fine but so dirty I could not go out. I read the "Gazettes" this evening'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	[n/a]	Gazettes	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I remember years ago reading the life of Charles Kingsley who has been called "a very perfect gentleman". Yet in that...	Stuart Wood	Frances Kingsley	Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Stories on the Lord's Prayer	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing c...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Amy Herbert	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "Th...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Stories on the Lord's Prayer	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas f...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Thomas Hood	'We watched her breathing through the night --'	Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Elizabeth Missing Sewell on support received in the face of criticisms of her novel [italics]Margaret Percival[end i...	Samuel Rickards	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	'little history of the early Church'	Unknown
	1800-1849	'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	The Earl's Daughter	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Margaret Percival	Unknown
	1800-1849	'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Laneton Parsonage	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I took my two lessons with Mr Jaegle, we began to read "Les Voyages du Jeune Anarchasis". The little that I heard tod...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	[Abbe] Barthelemy	Les Voyages du Jeune Anacharsis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I began to read "Paul and Virginia" book that Mrs Braun brought here it is very pretty'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Bernardin de St Pierre	Paul et Virginie	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We read today in the "Veilees du Chateau" I think that book very good for the young people'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Stephanie Felicite de Genlis	Veilees du Chateua ou Cours Morale a l'usage des Enfants	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We finished today to read Russels "Modern History", which is perfectly well wrote and in a very intertaining [sic] ma...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	William Russell	History of Modern Europe	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read today an English Tragedy by Thomson that pleased me much and made me like that author's works'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	James Thomson	[a tragedy]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I staid at home and read "Charles Grandison" that we have in French a charming book'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	William Robertson	The History of America	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Hugh Blair	Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read of "Grandisson" - That Book pleases and interests me very much'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have done to read "Grandisson" that book has amused me vastly'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Ever since I have read "Rudolph of Wertenberg" I have more pleasure when I walk round this country, as it makes me re...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	[unknown]	Rudolph of Wertenberg	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have been reading today some of my journals and indeed find them so horribly stupid that it did not encourage me to...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Elizabeth Wynne	[diaries]	Manuscript: diary
	1900-1945	'This book made a deep and lasting impression upon me because, apart from its profound human interest in the widest se...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Oscar Wilde	Ballad of Reading Gaol or De Profundis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Author describes being put into cell in Reading Gaol for the first time: 'That completed the furniture in the cell. B...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	The Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly o...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read somewhere in the Koran, "The fate of every man have we bound about his neck".'	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	Koran	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'in the Army I spent most of my leisure reading in a desultory fashion anything that aroused my interest. Later on I b...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a wait of two months as a trial prisoner, during which I was able to do a considerable amount of reading, I was...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Description of first month spent in Winchester Prison after sentence: 'Nearly twenty-three hours out of every twenty-...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I endeavoured to counteract this depression by reading the Bible, the only book I had besides a Prayer Book and a Pro...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Winchester I was able to get the first volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall", but had no time to finish it. On ano...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had read about this country [China] with its forty centuries of history - more or less static, but which, at the pr...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[book on China]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had ...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[unknown- various titles]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	Who's Who	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living 'Works of reference in public libraries fur...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Burke	Peerage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living 'Works of reference in public libraries fur...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	Crockford's Clerical Dictionary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	Army List	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	Navy List	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	University Registers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	University Year Books	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read the whole of Shakespeare several times and the character with whom I have most sympathy is poor Hamlet, t...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	William Shakespeare	[works]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[sermons]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	Bampton lectures	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	Gifford lectures	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[speeches]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Charles Dickens	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Charlotte Bronte	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Emily Bronte	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Anne Bronte	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Jane Austen [?]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	William Makepeace Thackeray	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	George Eliot	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	George Meredith	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Edward Lytton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Charles Kingsley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Charles Reade	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Thomas [?] Hughes	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Anthony Trollope	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate se...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845: 'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edward...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Henry Newman	Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	Article on the Jesuits	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		The Oxford and Cambridge Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846: 'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Cecilia Tilley	Chollerton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846: 'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Harriet Martineau	Tales on the Game Laws	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846: 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Alison	accounts of Napoleon's battles	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[unknown - various titles]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[lives of the Fathers]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[biographies of Christ]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[biographies of St Paul]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[studies on the Apostles]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue;...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[unknown - various titles]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked pu...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Thomas Babbington Macaulay	[uknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked pu...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Thomas Carlyle	[uknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Thomas Carlyle	[uknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Joseph Henry Shorthouse	John Inglesant	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	George Eliot	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Heinrich Heine	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Pierre Loti	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Friedrich Nietzsche	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	[unknown]	[Greek Philosophy]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	John Locke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	David Hume	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	George Berkeley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Immanuel Kant	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Arthur Schopenhauer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Gustav Fechner	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic...	Stuart Wood [pseud?]	Rudolph Hermann Lotze	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a...	Thomas Carlyle	unknown	["black-letter poems"]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubin...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		Life of Southey	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850: 'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Ruskin	Lectures on Architecture and Painting	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	An Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Pusey	two sermons	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Thomas Carlyle	Heroes and Hero-Worship	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		pamphlets
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		magazines	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		The Times	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charles Kingsley	Hypatia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to th...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	St Paul	Epistle to the Hebrews	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Gaskell	Life of Charlotte Bronte	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]: 'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end i...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charles de Remusat	'French Essays on Literature'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868: 'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire	Conferences de Notre Dame de Paris	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach: 'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is ac...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	anon	slip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia]	Print: loose slip of paper
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire: 'I h...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Richard Rowe	Episodes in an Obscure Life	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	['books of note']	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed re...	Justina Wynne	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am occupied a geat deal just now in reading a new novel called "Family Secrets", it is a compound of unnatural occu...	Thomas Fremantle	Sarah Stickney Ellis	Family Secrets	Print: Book
	1900-1945	`My dear Watson: Who would have supposed that I should write to thank you for your considerateness in sending the Od...	Thomas Hardy	William Watson	Ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VII	Print: Unknown, Probably a pamphlet or book
	1850-1899	'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Forbes-Mitchell	Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9	Print: Book
	1850-1899	One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'L...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Lawrence L. Lynch	Shadowed by Three: A Detective Story	Print: Book
	1850-1899	One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'L...	Robert Louis Stevenson		Dashing Kate, the Female Detective	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Taking a book of Browning's poems from his pocket he showed Louis a verse which he said he could not understand...bend...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Browning		Print: Book
	1850-1899	Louis announced that he had written something he wanted us to hear. When we had taken our seats round the centre table...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr Hyde of Honolulu	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he h...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	Weir of Hermiston	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he h...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	The Witch Woman
	1700-1799	'Whenever I read in St Paul's Epistle on justification by faith alone, my good mistress would read in the Epistle of S...	James Lackington		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I often privately took the Bible to bed with me, and in the long summer mornings read for hours together in bed'.	James Lackington		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Since the publication of the first edition of these memoirs, I have read "The Memoirs of Mr. Tate Wilkinson" patentee...	James Lackington	Tate Wilkinson	The memoirs of Mr Tate Wilkinson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read a French novel, "Matilde", which interested me much and is extremely well written - by Mde Cottin'.	Elizabeth (Betsey) Fremantle	Sophie Cottin	Mathilde	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a hor...	Thomas Fremantle	[n/a]	Gibraltar Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'	Thomas Fremantle	William Shakespeare	Measure for Measure	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Sat alone all the evening and read two Shakespeare's plays, "Measure for Measure" and "Henry the 6th".'	Thomas Fremantle	William Shakespeare	Henry VI	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A study was made on Armistice Day reactions, comparable to those made in previous years. Even at the Cenotaph there w...	[a priest] anon	unknown	prayer	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'It is very likely that I may send you some Mathematical thing or other, seeing I have got Bossut's history of mathema...	Thomas Carlyle	Charles Bossut	Essai sur l'histoire generale des mathematiques	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Carlyle transcribes a poem by John Leyden he has read in Hogg's 'Spy' and sends it to Robert Mitchell] 'Well, if I am...	Thomas Carlyle	John Leyden	'Shout, Britons, for the Battle of Asaye'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Have you read Shakespear? If you have not, then I desire you, read it directly, and tell me what you think of him -wh...	Thomas Carlyle	William Shakespeare	[Works]	Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
	1800-1849	'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Murray	[critique of William Nicholson's works in 'The Courier']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc...	Thomas Carlyle	W. Scott Irving	[poem celebrating peace at end of Napoleonic wars]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc...	Thomas Carlyle	W. Scott Irving	[essays on Burns and monuments]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I was greatly diverted by your specimen of Mr. Maclaurin's prose-run-mad. He seems to have imbibed, in the full sense...	Thomas Carlyle	Maclaurin	[writings quoted in a letter from Thomas Murray to Carlyle]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spi...	Thomas Carlyle	Laurence Sterne	Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A-propos of Authors - This evening at tea, Miss Ramsay (our governess) inquired at me if I had read that affecting re...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Murray	[article entitled 'An Affecting Occurrence']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so muc...	Thomas Carlyle	Francis Jeffrey	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add...	Thomas Carlyle	Sophie Cottin	Elisabeth, ou les exiles de Siberie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add...	Thomas Carlyle	James Beattie	The Minstrel	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add...	Thomas Carlyle	Christoph Wieland	Oberon. Ein Gedicht in 14 Gesangen	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add...	Thomas Carlyle	John Hoole	Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add...	Thomas Carlyle	Richard Savage	[Poems]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add...	Thomas Carlyle	Francois Fenelon	Abrege des vies des anciens philosophes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add...	Thomas Carlyle	James Beresford	Miseries of Human Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy co...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Mitchell	[a mathematical paper]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ...	Thomas Carlyle	George Gordon Lord Byron	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ...	Thomas Carlyle	Walter Scott	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ...	Thomas Carlyle	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ...	Thomas Carlyle	Richard Glover	Leonidas, A Poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ...	Thomas Carlyle	William Wilkie	The Epigoniad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ...	Thomas Carlyle	Jane Porter	The Scottish Chiefs, A Romance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ...	Thomas Carlyle	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ...	Thomas Carlyle	Leonhard Euler	Elements of Algebra	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ...	Thomas Carlyle	Joseph Addison	The Free-holder, I-LV	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ...	Thomas Carlyle	Georges Cuvier	'Discours preliminaire' to Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles des quadrupedes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ...	Thomas Carlyle	Moliere [pseud.]	[Comedies]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I also received great benefits from reading Coventry's Philemon to Hydaspes; it consists of dialogues on false religi...	James Lackington	Henry Coventry	Philemon to Hydaspes: or the history of false religion in the earlier pagan world related in a series of coversations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Carlyle apologises for not having written sooner, saying he has been waiting until he has procured a copy of Stewart ...	Thomas Carlyle	Stewart Lewis	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerab...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?]	review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilites	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerab...	Thomas Carlyle	Pierre Simon Laplace	Essai philosophique sur les probabilites	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you w...	Thomas Carlyle	[unknown]	[unknown novel]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Great and manifold are the books I have read since I saw you. You recommended "Thaddeus of Warsaw" long ago you may r...	Thomas Carlyle	Jane Porter	Thaddeus of Warsaw	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it to...	Thomas Carlyle	Cicero	De Officiis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it to...	Thomas Carlyle	Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield	Letters to his Son	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was one day called aside, and a hand-bill was given me; and thinking it to be a quack doctor's bill for a certain d...	James Lackington	John Biggs	[conversion narrative]	Print: Handbill
	1800-1849	'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Volta...	Thomas Carlyle	Voltaire [pseud.]	La Pucelle d'Orleans	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'But the book I am most pleased with is "Cicero de Finibus" - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his man...	Thomas Carlyle	Cicero	De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in...	Thomas Carlyle	Dugald Stewart	Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in...	Thomas Carlyle	William Rowe Lyall	[review in the Quarterly Review of Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'"Guy Mannering" is reviewed in the same number [ of the Quarterly Review]. Tho' we have still more reason to question...	Thomas Carlyle	anon	[review in the Quarterly Review of Scott's Guy Mannering]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am glad you saw Lara; and am indebted for your account of it. I read the review of it in the Quarterly review?some ...	Thomas Carlyle	anon.	[review in the Quarterly Review Byron's Lara]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has pre...	Thomas Carlyle	David Hume	Essays Moral, Political and Literary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Southey	[essay in the Quarterly Review on Lewis and Clarke's Travels]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar...	Thomas Carlyle	Mark Akenside	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar...	Thomas Carlyle	Tobias Smollett	Peregrine Pickle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenio...	Thomas Carlyle	David Hume	Essays Moral, Political and Literary	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ...	Thomas Carlyle	Hugh Blair	Lectures on Rhetoric	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ...	Thomas Carlyle	[unknown]	[an Italian Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ...	Thomas Carlyle	Francesco Soave	Novelle Morali	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip...	Thomas Carlyle	Dugald Stewart	The Life and Writings of William Robertson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip...	Thomas Carlyle	Adam Smith	The Wealth of Nations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip...	Thomas Carlyle	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It...	Thomas Carlyle	Benjamin Thomson Count Rumford	Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It...	Thomas Carlyle	George Stewart Mackenzie	Travels in the Island of Iceland during the summer of 1810	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published...	James Lackington	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Thoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva, selected from his writings by an Anonymous Editor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It...	Thomas Carlyle	Friedrich von Humboldt	Essai politique sur la royaume de nouvelle espagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It...	Thomas Carlyle	George Berkeley	Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It...	Thomas Carlyle	Dugald Stewart	Philosophical Essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Simpson	A Treatise of Fluxions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ...	Thomas Carlyle	Charles Bossut	Essai sur l'histoire generale ds mathematiques	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ...	Thomas Carlyle	James Wood	The Elements of Optics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ...	Thomas Carlyle	Isaac Newton	Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history ...	Thomas Carlyle	Lucan	Pharsalia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already ...	Thomas Carlyle	Walter Scott	Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already ...	Thomas Carlyle	Walter Scott	The Field of Waterloo, A Poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Mortimer	The British Plutarch	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two...	Thomas Carlyle	Joseph Addison	The Spectator	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two...	Thomas Carlyle	Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Letters to His Son	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea...	Thomas Carlyle	Alexander Pope	The Iliad / Odyssey of Homer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea...	Thomas Carlyle	Homer	The Iliad / Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea...	Thomas Carlyle	Xenophon	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only...	Thomas Carlyle	George Crabe	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr...	Thomas Carlyle	Isaac Newton	Philosophi? Naturalis Principia Mathematica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr...	Thomas Carlyle	James Wood	The Elements of Optics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre	Abrege d'astronomie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr...	Thomas Carlyle	John Keill	Introductio ad veram physicam	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful,...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas or William Belsham	[either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essays in Philosophical Morality]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful,...	Thomas Carlyle	Dugald Stewart	[Introductory essay to Encyclopaedia Britannica]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A much greater man than Rousseau says, "The only remedy for the infectious disease of Fanaticism, is a philosophical ...	James Lackington	Voltaire	(possibly) The Philosophical Dictionary for the pocket, Written in French by a society of men of letters and translated into English	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I hav...	Thomas Carlyle	John Playfair	Dissertation Second: Exhibiting a general View of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I hav...	Thomas Carlyle	Dugald Stewart	Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were ...	Thomas Carlyle	Walter Scott	Tales of My Landlord	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were ...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas M'Crie	Vindication of the Covenanters	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspape...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	The Scotsman	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspape...	Thomas Carlyle	[unknown]	The Sale Room	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Spurzheim	[work on phrenology]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Qua...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Qua...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I was reading Pascal's "lettres provinciales". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the ...	Thomas Carlyle	Blaise Pascal	Les Provinciales, ou les lettres	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Last week I perused von Buch's "travels in Norway & Lapland". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of whic...	Thomas Carlyle	Christian Leopold, Baron von Buch	Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to w...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Sylvain Bailly	Histoire de l'astronomie moderne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmi...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Dumfries Courier	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's "histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]" His acquaintance with the science seems...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Sylvain Bailly	Histoire de l'astronomie moderne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from ...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Chalmers	A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with Modern Astronomy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Chalmers	[article on paperism in Edinburgh Review]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Southey	[article in Quarterly Review]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	The Scotsman	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons...	Thomas Carlyle	William Wallace	[article on Fluxions in Encyclopaedia Britannica]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons...	Thomas Carlyle	Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael	De l'Allemagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since ...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's "Monk". It is the most stupid & villainous novel ...	Thomas Carlyle	Matthew Lewis	The Monk	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Edinburgh Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Edinburgh observer or Town and Country Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	"The following remarks made by the compilers of the Monthy Review for 1788, page 286, are so applicable to the present...	James Lackington		Monthly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e...	Thomas Carlyle	David Hume	The History of England during the reigns of James I and Charles I	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e...	Thomas Carlyle	Tobias Smollett	History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e...	Thomas Carlyle	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e...	Thomas Carlyle	Francis Bacon	Essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the suppositi...	Thomas Carlyle	Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld	Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of "Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine" - The g...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ...	Thomas Carlyle	William Coxe	Travels in Switzerland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ...	Thomas Carlyle	William Coxe	Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ...	Thomas Carlyle	David Hume	The History of England During the Reigns of James I and Charles I	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ...	Thomas Carlyle	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life": 'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and n...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Anna Laetitia Barbauld	'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]: 'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble mo...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Fanny Kemble	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Th...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Trench	sonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident'	Unknown
	1800-1849	In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life": 'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morr...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	?Maria ?Edgeworth	'To-morrow'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Jane Taylor	The Contributions of Q.Q.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Should you, my dear friend, be desirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious w...	James Lackington	Antoine-Joseph Pernety	The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bouganville in order to form a Settlement there; and of Two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with An Account of the Patagonians.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so muc...	Sydney Smith	Basil Hall	Travels in North America 1827-8	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and u...	Sydney Smith	Basil Hall	Travels in North America 1827-8	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. ...	Sydney Smith	T.H. Lister	Epicharis	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I quite agree about Napier's book. I did not think that any man would venture to write so true, bold and honest a boo...	Sydney Smith	William Francis Patrick Napier	History of the Peninsular War	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ...	Sydney Smith	John Galt	Laurie Todd or the Settlers in the Woods	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ...	Sydney Smith	Lady Raffles	[memoir of her husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it onl...	Sydney Smith	Thomas Moore	Life of Byron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with...	Sydney Smith	James Justinian Morier	Zohrab the Hostage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph...	Sydney Smith	(ed.) Lady Dacre	Recollections of a Chaperon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'.	Sydney Smith	Thomas Hamilton	Men and Manners in America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I d...	Sydney Smith	Robert James Mackintosh	Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despot...	Sydney Smith	Antoine Beauvilliers	L'Art de Cuisiner	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleas...	Sydney Smith	Frances Milton Trollope	Tremordyn Cliff	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [i...	Sydney Smith	Washington Irving	Astoria	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and...	Sydney Smith	Thomas Babington Macaulay	[writings on Indian Courts and Education]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'.	Sydney Smith	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Ca...	Sydney Smith	Henry Harpur Spry	Modern India	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court...	Sydney Smith	William, Baron Stowell Scott	[reports of cases in the Admiralty Court]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the ...	Sydney Smith	(ed.) Mary Berry	[letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; b...	Sydney Smith	M. Guizot	'Washington: par M. Guizot'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'.	Sydney Smith	[Mrs] Crowe	Susan Hopley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...	Sydney Smith	Philip Doddridge	The Family Expositor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...	Sydney Smith	[anon]	The Scholar Armed
	1800-1849	I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...	Sydney Smith	[unknown]	The Dissenter Tripped Up
	1800-1849	'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombard...	Sydney Smith	Mountstuart Elphinstone	History of India	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plut...	Sydney Smith	Charles Napier	An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'.	Sydney Smith	unknown	A Life in the Forest	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'.	Sydney Smith	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Lays of Ancient Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a...	Sydney Smith	Honore de Balzac	Pere Goriot	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a...	Sydney Smith	Honore de Balzac	La Messe de l'Athee	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am ...	Sydney Smith	Charles Dickens	Martin Chuzzlewit	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable ...	Sydney Smith	Leonard Horner	Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called "Arabiniana, or Re...	Sydney Smith	Theobald Mathew	Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequent...	Sydney Smith	Harriet Martineau	Life in the Sick Room	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think Channing an admirable writer, so much eloquence so much sense so much command of Language; yet admirable as h...	Sydney Smith	William Ellery Channing	[sermon on War]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; ...	Sydney Smith	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.	Sydney Smith	Arthur Stanley	Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.	Sydney Smith	Horace Twiss	Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it wo...	Sydney Smith	Horace Twiss	Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details w...	Sydney Smith	(ed.) Richard Bourke	Correspondence of Burke	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in...	Sydney Smith	Alexander William Kinglake	Eothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the East	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you...	Sydney Smith	Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.]	Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and gri...	Sydney Smith	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'.	Sydney Smith	Frederick Marryat	The Settlers in Canada	Print: Book
	1850-1899	One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1850-1899	On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune,...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Margaret Oliphant	Review of The Master of Ballantrae	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully tr...	Thomas Green	Sir William Temple	Essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....'	Thomas Green	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medi...	Thomas Green	William Roscoe	The life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificant	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read, after a long interval, with much delight, the first two Books of Caesar's "Commentaries"....'	Thomas Green	Julius Caesar	Commentaries	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began, with a view of comparing notes, Macchiavel's "Historie Fiorentino"...'	Thomas Green	Niccolo Machiavelli	History of Florence	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Pursued Boswell's "life of Johnson"....'	Thomas Green	James Boswell	Life of Johnson	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Hawkesworth's "Life of Swift"....'	Thomas Green	John Hawkesworth	Life of Swift [in Works of Swift?]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Sheridan's "Life of Swift"....'	Thomas Green	Thomas Sheridan	Life of Swift	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Jortin's "Life of Erasmus"....'	Thomas Green	John Jortin	Life of Erasmus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...'	Thomas Green	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Bp. Watson's "Apology for the Bible", in reply to Paine....'	Thomas Green	Richard Watson	Apology for the Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Burke's "Letters on a Regicide Peace"...'	Thomas Green	Edmund Burke	Thoughts on the prospect of a regicide peace	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read with interest and curiosity, Hurd's "Life of Warburton"...'	Thomas Green	Richard Hurd	Life of Warburton [in Warburton, Works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked into Gibbon's "Miscellaneous Works"...'	Thomas Green	Edward Gibbon	Miscellaneous Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...'	Thomas Green	William Robertson	History of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....'	Thomas Green	William Robertson	History of Charles V.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...'	Thomas Green	Niccolo Machiavelli	Discourses on Livy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...'	Thomas Green	William Robertson	History of America	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over, by a cursory perusal, Beattie's "Essay on Truth"...'	Thomas Green	James Beattie	An essay on the nature and immutability of truth	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the "Castle of Otranto", which grievously disappointed my expectations...'	Thomas Green	Horace Walpole	The Castle of Otranto	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over Malone's "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Ireland's Shakesperian Papers"; a learned and decisive piece o...	Thomas Green	Edmond Malone	An inquiry into the authenticity of certain papers	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Italian"...'	Thomas Green	Ann Radcliffe	The Italian	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Gibbon's "Memoirs of himself"--an exquisite morceau of literature...'	Thomas Green	Edward Gibbon	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Swift's "Four last Years of Queen Anne"; a clear, connected detail of facts, exhibited with exquisite art...'	Thomas Green	Jonathan Swift	The history of the four last years of the Queen	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...'	Thomas Green	Edmund Burke	A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...'	Thomas Green	Adam Smith	Essays on philosophical subjects	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read over Beattie's "Elements of Moral Science"--a miserable work...'	Thomas Green	James Beattie	Elements of moral science	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over the first Vol. of the "Tatlers"...'	Thomas Green	Richard Steele	The Tatler	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation": a critical disquisition of considerable depth and skill...'	Thomas Green	Richard Hurd	Discourse concerning Imitation	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the "1st Epistle of Horace", Lib. 2 (the celebrated Epistle to Augustus) with the aid of Dacier's notes, and Hur...	Thomas Green	Horace	Epistola ad Augustum, annotated by Richard Hurd	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Hurd's "Commentary on Horace's Art of Poetry"...'	Thomas Green	Horace	Art of Poetry, annotated by Richard Hurd,	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...'	Thomas Green	Horace Walpole	The Mysterious Mother	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...'	Thomas Green	Thomas James Mathias	Pursuits of Literature	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Longinus on the Sublime; to which I had been led, by Gibbon's critique in his "Extraits Raisonnes"...'	Thomas Green	Longinus	On the Sublime	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the 1st Book of Quinctilian "De Institutione Oratoria"...'	Thomas Green	Quintilian	Institutes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over the "Beggar's Opera". The slang of low iniquity, is happily given in this strange drama...'	Thomas Green	John Gay	Beggar's Opera	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over Brown's "Essays on Satire", prefixed to Pope's "Moral Poems"; in which the nature and end of Satire is ha...	Thomas Green	John Brown	An essay on satire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I a...	Thomas Green	Anonymous	Arabian Nights Entertainments	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began, and read the first section of, Wollaston's "Religion of Nature"...'	Thomas Green	William Wollaston	Religion of Nature delineated	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Baviad and Maeviad"; an exquisite satire on the loathsome affectations of the Della Crusca school of po...	Thomas Green	William Gifford	The Baviad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Barrington's "Observations on the Ancient Statutes"; a well conceived and elaborate work...'	Thomas Green	Daines Barrington	Observations on the Ancient Statutes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Warton's "Life of Pope" prefixed to his edition of Pope's "Works"; and compared Wakefield's "Preface" to his...	Thomas Green	Joseph Warton	Life of Pope, in Works,	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over some of Gray's Poems. I am almost tempted to agree in Johnson's character of these compositions...'	Thomas Green	Thomas Gray	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read several of Dryden's original Poems. The sudden transition from his "Funeral Lines on Oliver Cromwell", to his "...	Thomas Green	John Dryden	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...'	Thomas Green	Alexander Pope	The Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefield	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Garth's "Dispensary"; a lively and pleasing poem, sparkling with considerable wit, but defrauded of its just fam...	Thomas Green	Samuel Garth	The Dispensary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Memoirs of Scriblerus"; an exquisite piece of satire, of which the separate parts of Swift, Pope, and A...	Thomas Green	Alexander Pope	Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Macfarlane's "History of George III.": a strange amalgama of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded i...	Thomas Green	Robert Macfarlane	History of George III	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but w...	Thomas Green	Samuel Johnson	London	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but wa...	Thomas Green	Samuel Johnson	Vanity of Human Wishes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...'	Thomas Green	William Roscoe	Life of Lorenzo de Medici	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...'	Thomas Green	George Campbell	The Philosophy of Rhetoric	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked into Young's "Night Thoughts": debased throughout with many poor and puerile conceits...'	Thomas Green	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of th...	Thomas Green	Anthony Hamilton	Memoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began Colley Cibber's "Life"; and was much delighted with his minute yet masterly account of the principal actors who...	Thomas Green	Colley Cibber	Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Hurd's "Dialogue" between Cowley and Sprat, on Retirement...'	Thomas Green	Richard Hurd	Moral and political dialogues	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over King's "Origin of Evil"...'	Thomas Green	William King	De origine mali	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the 2d. Vol. of Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...'	Thomas Green	William Russell	The History of Modern Europe	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principle...	Thomas Green	John Locke	Essay concerning Human Understanding	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, ...	Thomas Green	Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan	The History of Nourjahad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Bertrand De Moleville's "Memoirs of the Last Year of the Reign of Louis the 16th". They contain much curiou...	Thomas Green	Bertrand de Moleville	Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"; and read the two introductory sections, containing a master...	Thomas Green	Sir John Dalrymple	Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Haslam on Insanity....'	Thomas Green	John Haslam	Observations on Insanity	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over Godwin's "Memoirs of Mrs. Woolstonecraft"; which strikingly evince that love, even in a modern philosophe...	Thomas Green	William Godwin	Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Shaftesbury's "Enquiry concerning Virtue". His ideas are not very distinctly state; but he seems, to place Virt...	Thomas Green	Anthony Ashley Cooper	Inquiry concerning Virtue	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses", with an eye to a peculiar and distinguishing doctrine which runs through ...	Thomas Green	Joshua Reynolds	Seven Discourses	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'	Thomas Green	Bernard Mandeville	Fable of the Bees	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'	Thomas Green	Bernard Mandeville	Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain...	Thomas Green	Samuel Johnson	Preface to Shakespeare	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dipped into Bacon's "Essays"; so pregnant with just, original, and striking observations on every topic which is touc...	Thomas Green	Francis Bacon	Essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Brown's "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times". The 2d Vol. is merely a supplementary comment on...	Thomas Green	John Brown	An estimate of the manners and principles of the times	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over "Serious Reflections by a rational Christian", from 1788 to 1798 written by the Duke of G-...'	Thomas Green	Augustus Henry Fitzroy	The serious reflections of a rational Christian	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over Lord Chesterfield's "Characters": all of which are neatly, and some very finely, drawn...'	Thomas Green	Philip Dormer Stanhope	Characters of eminent personages of his own time	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the 1st Volume and Part of "Du Bos sur la Poesie et Peinture"...'	Thomas Green	Jean-Baptiste Dubos	Critical reflections on poetry, painting and music	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Burke's "Vindication of Natural Society". Except in parts (as in the opening and ending) I cannot think that th...	Thomas Green	Edmund Burke	Vindication of Natural Society	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical dec...	Thomas Green	Samuel Johnson	Lives of the Poets	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with...	Thomas Green	Joseph Addison	The Spectator	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Burke's Disquisition prefixed to his "Sublime and Beautiful"...'	Thomas Green	Edmund Burke	A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...'	Thomas Green	Montesquieu	De l?esprit des loix	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked into Mitford's "History of Greece". The Athenian Democracy imparts no sort of relish for that sort of governm...	Thomas Green	William Mitford	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first five chapters of Reid's "Enquiry into the Human Mind": in which he examines the senses of Smell, Tast...	Thomas Green	Thomas Reid	An inquiry into the human mind	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the Introduction to Berkeley's "Principles of Human Knowledge", in which he really seems to be serious and in ea...	Thomas Green	George Berkeley	A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Voltaire's "Siecle de Louis 14me.": a most entertaining and instructive work...'	Thomas Green	Voltaire	Essay sur l?histoire du siecle de Louis XIV	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Athenian Letters"...'	Thomas Green	Philip Yorke	Athenian Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Travels of Anacharsis". This work is ably executed, and must have cost prodigious pains; but it still ...	Thomas Green	J. J. Barth?lemy	Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measur...	Thomas Green	Horace Walpole	Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the third	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...'	Thomas Green	Horace Walpole	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and su...	Thomas Green	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...'	Thomas Green	John Milton	Samson Agonistes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Natio...	Thomas Green	Sir James Mackintosh	A discourse on the study of the law of nature, and nations	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's ...	Thomas Green	Torquato Tasso	Jerusalem Delivered	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over a Volume of "Lettres Choisies de Mesdames Sevigne et Maintenon"...'	Thomas Green	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise S?vign	Lettres choisies de Mesdames de Sevign? et de Main	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his ...	Thomas Green	Thomas Burnet	The theory of the earth	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read with much interest, in a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, an "Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind", by J....	Thomas Green	James Ussher	An introduction to the theory of the human mind	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, an...	Thomas Green	Sir James Mackintosh	Vindiciae Gallicae	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Soame Jenyns' "Origin of Evil". His grand solution of the introduction of evil is, that it could not have been ...	Thomas Green	Soame Jenyns	A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Gibbon's "Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature": an ostentatious performance...'	Thomas Green	Edward Gibbon	Essai sur l??tude de la litt?rature	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Lord Bacon's Letters, edited by Birch. It is grievous to see this great man, who appears from various passa...	Thomas Green	Francis Bacon	Letters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Francis Bacon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...'	Thomas Green	Edward Hooker	Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Hurd's "Lectures on the Prophecies"...'	Thomas Green	Richard Hurd	An introduction to the study of the prophecies	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished Bishop Shipley's Works; to the reading of which I had been powerfully recommended by M-h. A vein of good se...	Thomas Green	Jonathan Shipley	The works of the Right Reverend Jonathan Shipley	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first Vol. of Hurd's "Sermons at Lincoln's-Inn"...'	Thomas Green	Richard Hurd	Sermons preached at Lincoln?s-Inn	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...'	Thomas Green	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Read Cicero "De Senectute": a most exquisite and finished disquisition...'	Thomas Green	Cicero	De Senectute	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its ...	Thomas Green	Thomas May	The history of the Parliament of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Dryden's Dedication to his "Translations of Juvenal's Satires":--a stranger, rambling composition...'	Thomas Green	John Dryden	The satires of Juvenalis, translated into English	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Richardson's "Philosophical Analysis" of some of Shakespear's Characters. The design is happy, and, upon the wh...	Thomas Green	William Richardson	A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's characters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Cambridge's "Scribleriad". The mock heroic is well sustained throughout; but the Poem is deficient in broad hum...	Thomas Green	Richard Owen Cambridge	The scribleriad: an heroic poem in six books	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Finished the perusal of Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric". The praise of ingenuity, of a judgment in general correct, a...	Thomas Green	Hugh Blair	Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Jackson's (of Exeter) "Four Ages". He inverts the usual order; and promises halycon days, from the improvement o...	Thomas Green	William Jackson of Exeter	The four ages; together with essays on various subjects	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked through the 3d. Book of Warburton's "Divine Legation". It is impossible to pursue this eccentric Genius stead...	Thomas Green	William Warburton	The divine legation of Moses demonstrated	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Balguy's "Discourses". They are all masterly; but the first four, and the 8th, tower above the rest in excellen...	Thomas Green	Thomas Balguy	Discourses on various subjects	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the 1st Vol. of Sully's "Memoirs". They open a scene of manners, which, to modern conception, appears perfectly...	Thomas Green	Pierre Mathurin	The memoirs of the Duke of Sully	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Looked over the 1st and 2d Parts of Watts' "Logic"...'	Thomas Green	Isaac Watts	Logic, or the right use of reason	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the First of Alison's "Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste". Taste, he defines, That faculty by wh...	Thomas Green	Archibald Alison	Essays on the nature and principles of taste	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked over the Introduction to Pemberton's "View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy". He affirms (sec. 2.) that it is...	Thomas Green	Henry Pemberton	A view of Sir Isaac Newton?s philosophy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibitin...	Thomas Green	John Moore	Zeluco. Various views of human nature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Pope's five "Ethic Epistles" or "Moral Essays". There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to m...	Thomas Green	Alexander Pope	Moral Epistles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Moore's "Edward". The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...'	Thomas Green	John Moore	Edward. Various views of human nature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked into Whitehurst's "Theory of the Earth". His hypothesis is, That our globe was originally a confused mass of ...	Thomas Green	John Whitehurst	An inquiry into the original state and formation of the earth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the 1st Part of Price's "Essay on the Picturesque"...'	Thomas Green	Uvedale Price	An essay on the picturesque	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked over Gilpin's Two Essay[s]; on Picturesque Beauty, and Picturesque Travel...'	Thomas Green	William Gilpin	Three Essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetchin...	Sydney Smith	August von Kotzebue	Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she...	Sydney Smith	Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de Staal	Memoires	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written...	Sydney Smith	Archibald Constable [ed.]	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr...	Sydney Smith	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi...	Sydney Smith	William Jacob	Travels in the South of Spain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi...	Sydney Smith	Benjamin Franklin	The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just read Dugald Stewart's "Preliminary Dissertations". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his def...	Sydney Smith	Dugald Stewart	[Dissertation printed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the precedi...	Sydney Smith	[unknown]	[evidence of Elgin Marble Committee]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proo...	Sydney Smith	George Canning	[Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anonymous pamphleteer (John Cam Hobhouse, it transpired), who had attacked him]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have read Georgel and must say I have seldom read a more stupid book. The first volume in which he relates what he ...	Sydney Smith	Jean Francois Georgel	M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read the first and second volumes of the Abbe Georgel's Memoirs. You will suppose, from this advic...	Sydney Smith	Jean Francois Georgel	M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppos...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his no...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute nece...	Sydney Smith	Henry Brougham	A Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHAM, Esq. MPFRS upon the Abuse of Charities
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...	Sydney Smith	Henry Fearon	Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...	Sydney Smith	John Bradbury	Travels in the Interior of America in the years 1809, 1810 and -1811	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...	Sydney Smith	John Palmer	Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, &c. &c	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...	Sydney Smith	Francis Hall	Journal of Travels in the United States of North America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ...	Sydney Smith	Morris Birkbeck	Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ...	Sydney Smith	Morris Birkbeck	Letters from Illinois	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'	Thomas Green	Henry Fielding	The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in...	Thomas Green	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at th...	Thomas Green	Henry Fielding	The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than ...	Thomas Green	Henry Fielding	Amelia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's "Lectures in Divinity". His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first: b...	Thomas Green	John Hey	Lectures in divinity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...'	Thomas Green	Robert Bloomfield	The farmer?s boy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Pearson's "Remarks on the Theory of Morals"...'	Thomas Green	Edward Pearson	Remarks on the Theory of Morals	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished the "Aeneid". Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sub...	Thomas Green	Virgil	Aenied	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Godwin's "St. Leon". In the Preface, he explicitly abjures the doctrine of extinguishing the private affections...	Thomas Green	William Godwin	St Leon, a tale of the sixteenth century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's "Essays"...'	Thomas Green	James Gregory	Philosophical and literary essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...'	Thomas Green	Johann David Michaelis	Introduction to the New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Frend's "Animadversions" on Prettyman's Theology:--more temperate and chastised than I expected...'	Thomas Green	William Frend	Animadversions on the elements of Christian theology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Porson's "Letters to Travis", on the disputed passage in John...'	Thomas Green	Richard Porson	Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished a perusal of Warton's "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope"...'	Thomas Green	Joseph Warton	Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Marsh's "Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France"...'	Thomas Green	Herbert Marsh	The history of the politicks of Great Britain and France	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read again, and with more attention, Hurd's "Discourse on Poetical Imitation"...'	Thomas Green	Richard Hurd	Discourse concerning Imitation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Gildon's "Essay", prefixed to Shakespear's poems, in which he largely discuses Dramatic Poetry...'	Thomas Green	Charles Gildon	"An Essay" in Works of Shakespeare	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked into Cicero's "Buruts"...'	Thomas Green	Cicero	Brutus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked into Prettyman's "Theology". The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome...'	Thomas Green	George Pretyman	Elements of Christian theology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, w...	Thomas Green	Edmond Malone	Critical and Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Daines Barrington's curious "Observations on the Notes of Birds"...'	Thomas Green	Daines Barrington	The history of singing birds	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...'	Thomas Green	Thomas Campbell	The Pleasures of Hope	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Looked into Kirkman's "Life of Macklin"...'	Thomas Green	James Thomas Kirkman	Memoirs of the life of Charles Macklin	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Began Dryden's "Prose Works"...'	Thomas Green	John Dryden	Prose Works, ed. Malone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Mrs. Radcliffe's "Tour to the Lakes". Much might be expected from this Lady's well known powers of description,...	Thomas Green	Ann Radcliffe	A journey made in the summer of 1794	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished the two first Volumes of Soame Jenyns "Works", edited by Cole...'	Thomas Green	Soame Jenyns	The works of Soame Jenyns, Esq	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...'	Thomas Green	James Boswell	The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Began Herder's "Outlines of the Philosophy of the History of Man", of which I had heard high praise;--but was soon ob...	Thomas Green	Johann Goffried Herder	Outlines of a philosophy of the history of man	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Glanced over Pye's "Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics"...'	Thomas Green	Henry James Pye	A Commentary illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton", on his late Edition of Milton?...	Thomas Green	Samuel Darby	A letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton, on his late edition of Milton's Juvenile Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mathematics, I have absolutely never thought on - excepting some trifles from the Ladies' and Gentleman's diary - whic...	Thomas Carlyle	Reuben BURROW	Unknown from 'Ladies' and Gentleman's Diary'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	But the book I am most pleased with is 'cicero de Finibus' - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his mann...	Thomas Carlyle	Cicero	De Finibus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standa...	Thomas Carlyle	William Hazlitt	'Standard Novels'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standa...	Thomas Carlyle	Lewis & Clarke	Travels up the Missouri	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir Isaac Newton	Institutes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and f...	Thomas Carlyle	anon	Belfast Town & County Almanack	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at leas...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir John Leslie	Elements of Geometry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am ...	Thomas Carlyle	William Thomson	The New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vols	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main. I would study, I thought, with great ...	Thomas Carlyle	William Wallace	'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the pur...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Mitchell	'theorems'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes...	Thomas Carlyle	Tobias Smollett	History of England [probably]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of...	Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand'	n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are sai...	John Nicholas Fazackerly	Samuel Rogers	Human Life	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are som...	Sydney Smith	Samuel Rogers	Human Life	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a...	Sydney Smith	Henry Grey Bennet	Letter to Viscount Sidmouth, Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the Transportation Laws, the State of the Hulks and of the Colonies in New South Wales
	1800-1849	'Tell my Lord, if he wants to read a good savory ecclesiastical pamphlet, to read Jonas Dennis' "Concio Cleri", a book...	Sydney Smith	Jonas Dennis	Convocatio Cleri
	1800-1849	'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ...	Sydney Smith	James McIntosh	[Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Refom]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ...	Sydney Smith	Edward Copleston	[Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency and Prinsep on Money]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it ...	Sydney Smith	Arthur Hallam	History Of Europe During The Middle Ages	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'.	Sydney Smith	William Heude	A Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overland from India to England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m...	Sydney Smith	unknown	[article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m...	Sydney Smith	unknown	[article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a...	Sydney Smith	Ferdinando Galiani	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Galiani's letters, but they are so utterly insignificant, that there is nothing more to be said of them t...	Sydney Smith	Ferdinando Galiani	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him ...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Bride of Lammermoor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetit...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Bride of Lammermoor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is ...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t...	Sydney Smith	[Captain] Gollownin	Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t...	Sydney Smith	Daniel Defoe	Colonel Jack - The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I strongly recommend to you Captain Golownin's narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertai...	Sydney Smith	[Captain] Gollownin	Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marr...	Sydney Smith	Mary Berry	Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell; followed by a Series of Letters from Lady Russell to her Husband	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Monastery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Abbot	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published i...	Sydney Smith	Horace Walpole	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so tha...	Sydney Smith	Robert Southey	The Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Methodism Including Remarks On The Life And Character Of John Wesley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Pirate	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosion...	Sydney Smith	[unknown]	The Beacon	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Giovanni Perrone	Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861: 'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangel...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	Pamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica
	1850-1899	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mary Russell Mitford	Rienzi	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a frie...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	anon	[novel]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I read a pamphlet of Cockburn's; rather good'.	Sydney Smith	Cockburn	[pamphlet]
	1800-1849	'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is t...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	The Fortunes of Nigel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you ha...	Sydney Smith	John Gibson Lockhart	Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be bett...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	Peveril of the Peak	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious pie...	Sydney Smith	Joseph Blanco White	Doblado's Letters from Spain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and there...	Sydney Smith	Walter Scott	St Ronan's Well	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it w...	Sydney Smith	Basil Hall	Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'.	Sydney Smith	Jacques Peuchet	Memoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie-Antoinette	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I ment...	Sydney Smith	Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord Normanby	Matilda	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to ...	Sydney Smith	George Combe	[probably] A System of Phrenology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray read Agar Ellis's ' Iron Mask;' not so much for that question [that of old age], though it is not devoid of curi...	Sydney Smith	George Agar-Ellis, Lord Dover	The true history of the state prisoner, Commonly called the Iron Mask	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou...	Sydney Smith	William Pitt Scargill [anon.]	Elizabeth Evanshaw	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou...	Sydney Smith	[anon.]	Three Months in Ireland. By an English Protestant	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'.	Sydney Smith	Henry Gally Knight	Foreign and Domestic View of the Catholic Question
	1800-1849	'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Bu...	Sydney Smith	Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary	The Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> oblit...	Sydney Smith	Clery	Journal	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making a...	[Mrs] Beach	Clery	Journal	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making a...	Sydney Smith	Benjamin Thomson, Count von Rumford	Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dr Rennel has published two or three Sermons lately which I would advise you to buy: they are written in a style of f...	Sydney Smith	Thomas Rennel [ed.]	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort...	Sydney Smith	Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la Perouse	Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort...	Sydney Smith	George Vancouver	A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean And Round The World In Which The Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined And Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read Parr's sermon and tell me how you like it. I think it dull, with occasional passages of Eloquence. His notes are...	Sydney Smith	Samuel Parr	'Spital Sermon'
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Joshua Reynolds	Lectures	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	William Mitford	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Robert Orme	History of Hindustan	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Rene Aubert Vertot	Revolutions of Portugal, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Rene Aubert Vertot	History of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned by the change of religion, and alteration of the government in that kingdom	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Jacques Benigne Bossuet	Oraisons Funebres	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Jean Baptiste Massillon	'Petite Careme'	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Isaac Barrow	[Select Sermons]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Edmund [??] Barrow	[??] Speech on conciliation with the American colonies	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...	Sydney Smith	Archibald Alison	Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	"I attempt to read a book which attacks my most cherished sentiments as calmly as one which corroborates them. I have...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Political Justice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to r...	Sydney Smith	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be rig...	Sydney Smith	Mary Berry (ed.)	[Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and to Voltaire]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	Edmund Burke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	Homer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	Suetonius	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	Adam Smith	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw...	Sydney Smith	William Godwin	The Inquier: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just been reading Allen's account of your Administration. Very well done, for the cautious and decorous style;...	Sydney Smith	John Allen	[article in the Annual Register, 1806]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ru...	Sydney Smith	[n/a]	[The Budget]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long ...	Sydney Smith	John Locke	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It was my intention to review Ferriar's "Theory of Apparitions"; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is im...	Sydney Smith	John Ferriar	Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi...	Sydney Smith	Robert Ker Porter	Account of the Last Russian Campaign	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi...	Sydney Smith	Isaac Milner	[Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish ...	Sydney Smith	Maria Edgeworth	Eunice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	I. Casaubon (ed.)	Historia Augustana	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads a...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Bryan Edwards	The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads a...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	An Historical and Moral View of the origin and progress of the French Revolution	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Ode to France aloud and repeats the poem to tranquility'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	'France: An Ode' [from] Fears in Solitude	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Gibbon alloud to me'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Gibbon (end of I vol) S. reads Livy'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'talk with Hogg - and read Gibbon but very little (30) in the evening work & S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.)	Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Holroyd, Lord Sheffield (ed.)	Miscelaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire, with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Gibbon aloud to me (160) - Weeks calls - Hogg comes - work - S reads Gibbons memoirs aloud'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschylus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'In the evening read Livy - p.385 2nd vol. - 1/2 1200p in 17 days desultory reading.' [end italics]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'at night read Livy 385.450. - Seneca'. [end italics]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Seneca	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'The Maie 3th vol. of Gibbon 607. Virgils Georgics'. [end italics]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lara: a tale	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Boethius	De Consolatione Philosophiae	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Bacon	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. finishes the 2d vol of Livy 1657 page... S. unwell and exhausted' [end italics]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read talk and nurse - S reads the life of Chauser'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Life of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, including memoirs of John of Gaunt	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S finishes the life of Chauser'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Life of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet, including memoirs of John of Gaunt	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our o...	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'.. there is a picture in Punch and it is a man beating a great many drums ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'And I saw a Punch which I thought I would like so much....there was one queer picture in Mr Punch which I must tell y...	Robert Louis Stevenson		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I have got the book from Mrs Bell it is Martin Rattler.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	R M Ballantyne	Martin Rattler or a Boy's Adventures in the Forests of Brazil	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am getting on very well with Ovid.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Ovid	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Oh my vessel's on the say says the shan van voght And I do not know what to say says the shan van voght.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Traditional Ballad	Shan Van Voght	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Have you ever read Alroy by Disraeli?' [includes quotations from Alroy].	Robert Louis Stevenson	Benjamin Disraeil	Alroy: a Romance	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have read Bragelonne'.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Alexandre Dumas	Le Vicomte de Bragelonne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At present I am going for Macaulay's History and no novels at all.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Babington Macaulay	History of England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'There is a nice little bit of poetry about that in an old number of Good Words.'	Robert Louis Stevenson		Good Words	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	.'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Harrison Ainsworth	Jack Sheppard	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Have you seen anything of the Broadway: I rather like it.'	Robert Louis Stevenson		Broadway	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I spent most of yesterday in the Advocates' Library and got about half way through the catalogue.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	?Robert ?Wodrow	[MSS in the Advocates' Library]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Do you know Henry Kingsley. Read Mademoiselle Mathilde by him, now coming out in the Gentleman's Magazine ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry Kingsley	Mademoiselle Mathilde	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I suppose Poems and Ballads will stand in the way of a Laureateship.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Algernon Charles Swinburne	Poems and Ballads [first series]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'... such cursed nonsense as the last thing in Good Words. Oh! Alfred Tennyson! Alfred Tennyson, oh!'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	'1865-1866'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'By the way what awful trash Tennyson's serial poetry is just now. To think of the man who wrote the 'Lotus Eaters' 'S...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Alfred Tennyson	The Lotus Eaters/St Simeon Stylites	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I send you three translations of a bit of Horace, in order to hear what you think of the last measure.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Horace	Book II Ode III	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Babington Macaulay	The History of England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The Golden Legend	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Hegel must either be frightfully clever, or a most egregious ass: I incline to the latter position.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	unknown	Unknown
	1850-1899	'It contains more detailed accounts than anything I ever saw, except Wodrow ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Wodrow	The History of the Suffrings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been reading a good deal of Herbert ... "Carve or discourse; do not famine fear, Who carves is kind to two, ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Herbert	The Temple: The Church Porch xxii	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?	Robert Louis Stevenson	Wilkie Collins	The Moonstone	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	"Do you think Job's birthday was the 29th of February 'As for that night let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joi...	Robert Louis Stevenson		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud'	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	John Black (trans.)	Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramatist) written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Browne	Religio Medici	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the evening Hogg reads Gibbon to me (393)'.	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Life of Geoffrey Chaucer the early English poet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Simon Ockley	The Conquest of Syria, Persia and Aegypt, by the Saracens	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Anne Louise Germaine de (Madame de) Stael	De la Litterature consideree dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stae...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ad Urbe Condita [probably]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish...	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Livy - he has arrived at vol 3 - Page 307'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ad Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Shelley reads Livy and then reads Gibbon with me till dinner'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ad Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] Easter Monday. Maie finished the 5th vol. of Gibbon [...] In the evening read - ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ad Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Walter Scott	Rokeby; a poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[unknown]	[work in Italian]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ovid	Metamorphoses - story of Myrrha	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] Mary reads the 3rd fable of ovid. S & Clare read Pastor Fido. S. Reads Gibbon - (T...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read a scene or two out of "As You Like It" - go upstairs to talk with Shelley - Read Ovid (54 lines only) Shelley fi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lodovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ovid	Metamorphoses (vii)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Voltaire Essai sur des Nations'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Voltaire [pseud.]	Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humain	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay...	Thomas Jefferson Hogg	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ludovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Construe ovid (117) & read a some cantos of Spenser - Shelley reads Seneca'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Seneca	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Spenser (End of 9th canto) Shelley reads Seneca (143)'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Seneca	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'construe ovid - after dinner construe Ovid 100 lines - Finish 11 book of Spenser and read 2 Canto's of the third - Sh...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Seneca	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1814 - since all these titles are mentioned in journal entries, they are not given se...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	Mary: a Fiction	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1814: all the titles have database entries based on journal entries about reading th...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Petronius	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P...	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Moliere [pseud.]	Les Precieuses Ridicules	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Wordsworth	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	The Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and pupils of Milton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Charles James Fox, Lord Holland	A history of the early part of the reign of James the Second	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Paltock	Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Southey [anon.]	Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the Spanish	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[anon.]	Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Beckford	Vathek	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	August von Kotzebue	Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Jonathan Swift	Tale of a Tub, A. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Areopagitica: a Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate databas...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	New Testament, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate databas...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	James Thomson	Castle of Indolence, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Lycidas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate databas...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Burke [anon.]	A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord ****	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sallust		Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Eugene Labaume	Relation circonstanci?e de la campagne de Russie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Voltaire [pseud.]	Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Torquato Tasso	Gerusalemme Liberata	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Torquato Tasso	Aminta	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur solitaire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Hesiod	Works and Days	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch		Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Bacon	Novum Organum	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Vittorio Alfieri	[Tragedies]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Theocritus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	James MacPherson	The Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language by James MacPherson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Herodotus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thucydides	[probably History of the Peloponnesian War]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	[Iliad / Odyssey]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Locke	Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Jean Antoine de Cerceau	Conjuration de Nicholas Gabrini, dit de Rienzi, tyran de Rome en 1347	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Louis Maimbourg	Histoire de l'arianisme depuis sa naissance, jusqu'a sa fin, avec l'origine et le progres de l'heresie des sociniens	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Things as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Elizabeth Hamilton	Memoirs of Modern Philosophers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	The Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Carl Philipp Moritz	Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics to indicate PB Shelley's hand] 'In the evening I walk alone a long way by the lake. Read Julie all day [end i...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Julie; ou, La Nouvelle Heloise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lucretius	de Rerum Natura	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and r...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lucretius	de Rerum Natura	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Write - read Voltaire and Quintus Curtius - a rainy day with thunder and lightning - Shelley finishes Lucretius and r...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pliny	[letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Quintius Curtius - Shelley reads Pliny's letters'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pliny	[letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read twelve page[s] of Curt. write - & read the reveries of Rousseau - S. reads Pliny's Letters'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pliny	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Reveries and Adele & Teodore de Mad.me de Genlis & Shelley reads Pliny's letters'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pliny	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pliny	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the b...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Gaius Plinius Secundus	Panegyricus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Gaius Plinius Secundus	Panegyricus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Curt. out in the boat with Shelley who reads Tacitus - translate and in the evening read Adele & Theodore'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Tacitus and I read Curt.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Annales	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are...	Stephen Solly		Bible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it - I have told ...	Lesley Edna Moore	Sinclair Lewis	Dodsworth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[John] Milton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[John] Milton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Germania	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Germania	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Germania and "memoire d'un Detenu".'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Honore Jean, Baron de Riouffe	Memoires d'un detenu pour servir a l'histoire de la tyrannie de Robespierre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there &...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Tacitus	Germania	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there &...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	'Christabel'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Ch...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Baudelaire	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads "histoire de la Revolution par Rabault".'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	P.J. Rabaut Saint-Etienne	Precis histoire de la Revolution francaise redige par P.J. Rabaut	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Vol VII of Clarissa - Shelley reads the letters of Emile'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Emile, ou l'Education	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Michel de Montaigne	Essais	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads P.[eter] Pindars works aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Peter Pindar [pseud.]	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the Fr...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Charles Jean Dominque de Lacretelle	Precis historique de la Revolution Francaise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the Fr...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lucian	[satirical / philosophical dialogues]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing an incident at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing ...	'Rosie'	Elizabeth Gaskell	Cranford	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Mrs Hugh Fraser, wife of the British diplomat Hugh Fraser, recalls acquaintances made whilst en poste with him in Ch...	Sir Robert Hart	unknown	[Light French novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry Fielding	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads the life of Holcroft aloud all day'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Holcroft	Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Torquato Tasso	[unknwon]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Don Quixote - afterwards read mem. of the Prin/sse of Ba/th aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[unknown]	Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[unknown]	Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himself	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - Shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Montaigne'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Michel de Montaigne	Essais	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Michel de Montaigne	Essais	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Michel de Montaigne	Essais	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lucian	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Michel de Montaigne	Essais	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and at the Dukes, with great joy, I received the good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	Bill of mortality	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
	1600-1699	'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse abo...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[Discourse on the River Thames]	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	'He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked a...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Yesterday came out the King's Declaracion of war against the French; but with such mild invitations of both them and ...	Samuel Pepys	King Charles II	His Majesties declaration against the French	Print: Broadsheet
	1600-1699	'Thence by coach, and falling by the way at my bookseller's for a book, writ about twenty years ago in prophecy of thi...	Samuel Pepys	Francis Potter	An interpretation of the number 666	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book, of great antiquity, of some of the customs of the Navy about...	Samuel Pepys	James Humphrey	[MS Collections]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'To the hall, and there find the boy's verses "De peste"; it being their custom to make verses at Shrovetide. I read s...	Samuel Pepys	[boys in the upper forms at Eaton]	De pests [Bacchus verses]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph - "Hic Jacet primu...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[epitaph on memorial stone]	Manuscript: Graffito
	1600-1699	'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in ...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	Bill of mortality	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
	1600-1699	'I was at it till past 2 a-clock on Monday morning, and then read my vows and to bed'	Samuel Pepys		[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grays Inne, making an end of reading over my dear "Faber Fortunae" of m...	Samuel Pepys	Francis Bacon	Faber Fortunae	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Geoffrey Chaucer	unknown	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Susan Glaspell	Road to the Temple	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	C.E. Montague	Right off the Map	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Rose Macauley	Keeping Up Appearances	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Olwen Ward Campbell	Shelley and the Unromantics	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Hermann Sudermann	The Song of Songs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be ve...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Carl Van Vechten	Nigger Heaven	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Rebecca West	The Strange Necessity	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Oswald Spengler	Decline of the West	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Marcel Proust	Du Cote de Chez Swann	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Ro...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Berg...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Julian Benda	Belphegor	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and k...	Winifred Agnes Moore		[French newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Mahatma Gandhi	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Katherine Mayo	Mother India	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterp...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Oakroyd	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...	Winifred Agnes Moore		[French newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Theodore de Banville	Gringoire	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Le Blois Vert	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Margaret Steen	Matador	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Oliver Onions	The Open Secret	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha...	Winifred Agnes Moore	John Maynard Keynes	The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Arthur Cecil Pigou	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me i...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Montague	D?senchantement	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Gabouis	Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Francois Mauriac	Les Anges Noirs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Alexander Werth	Before Munich	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Deladier	[collection of speeches]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Paul Maraud	Rond Point des Champs Elys?es	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Philip Carr	The French at Home	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Life of Turgot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Albert Guerard	French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him pe...	Winifred Agnes Moore	unknown	Life of Orage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provenc...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Ford Madox Ford	Provence	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ev...	Winifred Agnes Moore	A.L. Bacharach	The Musical Companion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it thr...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Leon Daudet	Clemenceau	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? w...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Havelock Ellis	From Rousseau to Proust	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	D.W. Brogan	The Development of Modern France	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ...	Winifred Agnes Moore	Edna Ferber	A Peculiar Treasure	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Revisky on Hafiz...'	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Revisky	Hafiz	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Christopher Marlowe	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fletcher	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Webster	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...'	Mounstuart Elphinstone	Timur	Institutes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of th...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	The Proceedings of the Secret Committee	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Lindley Murray	English grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a s...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Orme	Hindustan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Strachey's "Narrative...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Henry Strachey	A narrative of the mutiny of the officers of the army in Bengal in ... 1766	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely per...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Pinnock	Catechism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lor...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell		New Testament Gospels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sale's "Preliminary D...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	George Sale	Preliminary discourse to the Koran	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmas...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	St Matthew	Matthew 2:1	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mangall	Questions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	unknown	[texts on French history]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mrs Marcet	Conversations on Chemistry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mrs Marcet	Conversations on Political Economy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Joyce	Scientific Dialogues	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. "Jones's "Commentarii...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[William?] Jones	Commentarii	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Gilchrist's "Grammar"...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Gilchrist	Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sa'adi's "Gulistan" t...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Sa'adi	Bostan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Ides travels. S. reads Don Quixote aloud in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Michel de Montaigne	Essais	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Maria Edgeworth (anon.)	Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian tale	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Gullivers Travels aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Jonathan Swift	Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Michel de Montaigne	Essais	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lucian	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Jonathan Swift	Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Lucian and Gulliver in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lucian	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Locke.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Locke	An Essay concerning Humane Understanding	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Jonathan Swift	Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Locke	An Essay concerning Humane Understanding	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Locke	An Essay concerning Humane Understanding	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late ...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Pamela - Little Babe not well - S. reads Locke & Pamela'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Richardson	Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Locke	An Essay concerning Humane Understanding	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Quintus Curtius Rufus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Richardson	Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Quintus Curtius Rufus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe; and thence walked to Mr Evelin's, where I walked in his garden t...	Samuel Pepys	Sir Thomas Ridley	A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Curt - & Plutarch - read Pamela and Shelley read[s] Gibbon after tea'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French book my Lord Brouncker did give me today, "L'histoire amoureuse des...	Samuel Pepys	Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy	L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch	[Life of Alexander]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Walked back again, reading of my civil law book.'	Samuel Pepys	Sir Thomas Ridley	A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'after dinner read some of Livy but am stopt by the badness of the edition. Shelley reads Political justice'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I walked both going and coming, spending my time in reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical law-book.'	Samuel Pepys	Sir Thomas Ridley	A view of the civile and ecclesiasticall law	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... Of Hafiz, I read 143 Odes in succe...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Hafiz	Odes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Ch...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to Deptford to enquire after a little business there; and thence by water back again, all the way coming and g...	Samuel Pepys	Francis Bacon	Faber Fortunae	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.'	Samuel Pepys	Sir Francis Walsingham	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then down to Woolwich Deptford to look after things...All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborou...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Middleton	The Mayor of Quinborough	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the w...	Samuel Pepys	Corneille	Pompee: Pompey the Great, a tragedy. As it was acted by the servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York. Translated out of French by certain Persons of Honour	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This evening I had Davila brought home to me, and I find it a most excellent history as I ever read.'	Samuel Pepys	E.C. Davila	Storia delle guerre civile di Francia	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way and find it a most pleasant and fine-writ play.'	Samuel Pepys	John Dryden	The Rival Ladies	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proce...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	Declaration of the proceedings of the victualling action	Manuscript: Sheet
	1600-1699	'Then with Creed, and read over with him the Narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as en...	Samuel Pepys	John Creed	The victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle	Unknown
	1600-1699	'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.'	Samuel Pepys	John Dryden	The Rival Ladys	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we...	Samuel Pepys	John Creed	The victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle	Unknown
	1600-1699	'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we...	Sir William Penn	John Creed	The victory over the fleet of the States General ... in the late engagement begun the 25 of July inst., as it came from His Highness Prince Rupert and His Grace the Duke of Albemarle	Unknown
	1600-1699	'and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer and Jane by water all the afternoon as high up as Moreclacke, with great pl...	Samuel Pepys	Sir William Davenant	The Seige of Rhodes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae".'	Samuel Pepys	Francis Bacon	Faber Fortunae	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So down the River, reading "The Adventures of five houres", which the more I read the more I admire.'	Samuel Pepys	Sir Samuel Tuke	The Adventures of the five houres	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up, and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I walking alone from Greenwich tither - making an end o...	Samuel Pepys	Sir Samuel Tuke	The Adventures of the five houres	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play;...	Samuel Pepys	William Shakespeare	Othello	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... I read some of the "Masnavi" of Ja...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Jalaluddin	Masnavi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	Port Royal Greek Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Homer	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Herodotus	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	Eton Selecta	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Phaedrus	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Horace	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Petronius	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Torquato] Tasso	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	[Italian Grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Niccolo] Machiavelli	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Francis] Bacon	Essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[David] Hume	Dialogue on natural religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[George] Berkeley	The principles of human knowledge	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'to Sir W. Coventry, and there read over my yesterday's work; being a collection of the perticulars of the excess in c...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[manuscript on naval expenses]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The church-history of Britain	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After dinner away home, Mr Brisband along with me as far as the Temple; and there looked upon a new book, set out by ...	Samuel Pepys	Paul Rycault	The present state of the Ottoman Empire By Paul Rycault, Esq. secretary to his Excellency the Earl of Winchilsea, Embassadour Extraordinary for His Majesty Charles the Second etc. to Sultan Mahomet Han the Fourth, Emperour of the Turks	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleetes defence of the Archbishop, that part about Pu...	Samuel Pepys	Edward Stillingfleet	A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and b...	Samuel Pepys	Philip Massinger	The Bondman	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and b...	Samuel Pepys	John Webster	The Duchesse of Malfy	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home, and there begun to read Potters discourse upon 666, which peases me mightily; and then broke off, and to...	Samuel Pepys	Francis Potter	An interpretation of the number 666	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and after Dinner down alone by water to Depford, reading "Duchess of Malfy", the play, which is pretty good - and the...	Samuel Pepys	John Webster	The Duchess of Malfy	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then home and read an hour, to make an end of Potters discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but hi...	Samuel Pepys	Francis Potter	An interpretation of the Number 666	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then home to supper and then to read the late printed discourse of Witches by a member of Gresham College, and th...	Samuel Pepys	Joseph Glanvill	Some philosophical considerations touching the being of witches	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.'	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Conyers] Middleton	A free enquiry	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This day in the gazette was the whole story of defeating the Scotch Rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambr...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Conyers] Middleton	A letter from Rome	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence home to dinner; and there W. Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazett in Aprill last (which I wonder should...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Conyers] Middleton	[Dissertations in Latin and English]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to supper and to read, and so to bed'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Conyers] Middleton	[Cicero]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de] Condorcet	The Human Understanding	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[William] Warburton	Tracts by Warburton and 'A Warburtonian'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Virgil	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Virgil	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Carlo] Denina	Revolutions of Literature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Samuel] Johnson	Lives [of the most eminent English poets]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[James] Boswell	Life of [Samuel] Johnson	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Voltaire	Louis XIV	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and wo...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Roscoe	Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Roscoe	Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - r...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Roscoe	Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	James Leigh Hunt	Story of Rimini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Henry Hart Milman	Fazio	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu	Lettres persanes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Theocritus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Moschus		Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon	Les Adventures de Telemaque	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Blackwell	Memoirs of the Court of Augustus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate en...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Symposium	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Lady Barker	Letters from New Zealand	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	George Kennan	Tent Life in Siberia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	J. A. Froude	Short Essays on Great Subjects	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Count Beugnot	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'C...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Frederick William Robinson	Christie's Faith	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	J. G. Sharp	Culture and Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[John?] Aikin	Essay on the use of natural history	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Waller	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Cowley	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Butler	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Denham	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Pope	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Dryden	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[William] [Gifford]	The Baviad and the Maeviad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Erasmus] Darwin	Botanic Garden	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[William] [Mason]	Caractacus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	John Milton	[Latin poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Jean de La Fontaine	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Friedrich] Schiller	The robbers [and two other plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Gesner	Idylls	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Nicolas] Boileau[-Despreaux]	Satires [and other works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Horace Walpole	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Thomas] Jefferson	Virginia [Notes on state of]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[David] Ramsay	Revolution of South Carolina [The history of the]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.	Thomas Carlyle	John Milton	Prose works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.	Thomas Carlyle	George Fox	Historical Account of the Life, Travels,...of George Fox	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And I to my closet, there to read and agree upon my vowes for next year; and so to bed - and slept mighty well.'	Samuel Pepys		[vowes]	Unknown
	1600-1699	'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alph...	Samuel Pepys	[Samuel and John] Pepys	[Catalogue of his books]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme", a pretty book; and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Henry More	An antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the naturall faculties of the minde of man, whether there be not a God	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discou...	Samuel Pepys	Andrew Marvell	Third Advice to a paynter	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus "de scribendis Epistolis", a v...	Samuel Pepys	Desiderius Erasmus	De conscribendis epistolis	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the c...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Dri...	Samuel Pepys	John Dryden	Annus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an historical poem	Print: Unknown
	1600-1699	'how[ever], I fell to read a little in Hakewill's "apology", and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the sa...	Samuel Pepys	Dr George Hakewill	An apologie or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the world	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private ...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[petty-warrants]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'and then went home and read a piece of a play (Every Man in his Humour, wherein is the greatest propriety of speech t...	Samuel Pepys	Ben Jonson	Every Man in his Humour	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a ...	Samuel Pepys	William Lloyd	The late apology in behalf of the papists, reprinted and answered in behalf of the royallists	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then home to read the lives of Henry the 5th and 6th, very fine, in Speede; and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Speed	The history of Great Britaine	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper'	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	The church-history of Britain	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I home and there to read very good things in Fullers "Church History" and "Worthies", and so to supper'	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Fuller	History of the worthies of England	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This day in the barge I took Berchensha's translation of Alsted his "Templum"; but the most ridiculous book, as he ha...	Samuel Pepys	John Birchensha	Templum Musicum	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very goo...	Samuel Pepys	Thomas Morely	A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to Woolwich, all the way reading Playfords "Introduction to Mus...	Samuel Pepys	John Playford	A brief introduction to the skill of musick	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; an...	Samuel Pepys	Paul Rycault	The present state of the Ottoman empire	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", p...	Samuel Pepys	George Mackenzie	Religio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the phanaticks of all sects and sorts	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a sm...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky'	Samuel Pepys	Paul Rycault	The present state of the Ottoman empire	Print: Book
	1600-1699	''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Paul Rycault	The present state of the Ottoman empire	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the follo...	Samuel Pepys	Richard Hooker	Works... in eight books of ecclesiastical polity	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the follo...	Samuel Pepys	William Dugdale	The Origines Juridiciales	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the follo...	Samuel Pepys	John Playford	Catch that catch can, or The musical companion	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So t...	Samuel Pepys	William Dugdale	Origines Juridiciales	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up, and to read more in the Origines'	Samuel Pepys	William Dugdale	Origines Juridiciales	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed'	Samuel Pepys	Paul Rycault	The present state of the Ottoman empire	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Co...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Boyle	Experiments and considerations touching colours	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with ...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Boyle	Experiments and considerations touching colours	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.'	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	London Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	[Samuel] [Parr]	Bellendenus [preface to]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Japher	Farriery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	Life of Major Geshpill	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Bernardin de Saint-Pierre	Etudes de la Nature [abstract of]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone		The Nation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi...	Mountstuart Elphinstone	unknown	[Novels innumerable]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Arcadia & Cupids Revenge - S. reads the arcadia'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Philip Sidney	Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, The	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.'	Samuel Pepys	Paul Rycault	The present state of the Ottoman empire	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constab...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[table-book]	Manuscript: table-book
	1600-1699	'and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcass...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'	Sir William Batten	Samuel Pepys	[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'	Sir William Penn	Samuel Pepys	[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'	Sir John Minnes	Samuel Pepys	[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duk...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as...	Samuel Pepys	Isaak Walton	Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's Works	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	Isaak Walton	Life of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's Works	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read [a] piece of "Grand Cyrus" in English by her'	Samuel Pepys	Madeleine de Scuderi	Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Walter Scott	Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Walter Scott	Tales of my Landlord [First Series - The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	[several works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Alcestes'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Alcestes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Wordsworths Poems aloud in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Wordsworth	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After tea S. reads Spencer aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the bible'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[unknown]	[History of the French Revolution]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the evening S. finishes reading MacBeth'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	MacBeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Pliny and walk. S. reads a canto of Spencer'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Spencer aloud & finishes the first & begins the second book.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Apuleius	Metamorphoses; or, The Golden Ass	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Hist. of [French]. Rev. and corrects F. write Preface'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	Manuscript: Unknown, Mary Shelley's MS
	1800-1849	'Read Apuleius. S. reads Spencer aloud'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Homer and writes'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads St Helena Manuscript'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	J. Frederic Lullin de Chateauvieux	Manuscrit venu de St Helene d'une maniere inconnue	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Hist. de la philosophie Moderne. and Spencer aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Johann Gottlieb Buhle	Geschichte der neuern Philosophie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Arrian	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Arrian	Historia Indica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads the first act of the faithful Shepherdess aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Fletcher	Faithfull Shepheardesse, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Arrian's Historia Indicae [sic]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Arrian	Historia Indica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Julie - S reads Homer'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shephe...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Fletcher	Faithfull Shepheardesse, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	Illiad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Homer's Hymns'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch	Hymns	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. translates Promethes Desmotes and I write it'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschlyus	Prometheus Bound	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer a...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschlyus	[several plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschylus	Agamemnon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschylus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mountstuart Elphinstone	Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary and India	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschylus	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Convivium	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	The Fountaine of Selfe-Love. Or, Cynthia's Revels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Oedipus Rex	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Volpone, or the Foxe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Alchymist, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Moore	Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am reading Clarendon's Hist. Rebell. at present with which I am more pleased than I expected, which is saying a goo...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edward Hyde (1st Earl of Clarendon)	The True Historical Narrative of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Lucy Hutchinson	Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It is necessary to explain, O Argive youth, that I have been reading the translations of Bohn, cunningly written with...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry George Bohn	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Honore de Balzac	Contes Drolatiques	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Today, I got rather a curiosity - Lieder und Balladen von Robert Burns, translated by one Silbergleit, and not so ill...	Robert Louis Stevenson	L G Silbergleit	Robert Burns' Lieder und Balladen [etc]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I have just been reading "Maud". Do not fear, dear; it has not been unpleasant to me; I see and know and accept all t...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Maud; A Monodrama	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been reading Roman Law...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	[Roman law]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'I have been reading...Calvin.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Calvin	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Othello	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Antony and Cleopatra	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Baruch de Spinoza	Tractatus Theologico-politicus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Enquiry concerning . . . Political Justice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Laon and Cythna	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Laon and Cythna	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Enquiry Concerning... Political Justice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Mandeville all day & finish it. S. reads Mandeville.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Mandeville. A tale of the seventeenth century in England	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'...I have been continuing to work at Roman Law...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	[Roman law]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'...I have been continuing to work at ... John Knox...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Knox	unknown	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton	Fables in Song	Unknown
	1800-1849	'S. reads Rights of man.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Paine	Rights of Man, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads & finishes Coleridge's Liteerary [sic] life'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Biographia Literaria; or Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Hume'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	David Hume	Essays and treatises on several subjects	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Berkeley'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Berkeley	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Berkeley	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Berkeley and part of "Much ado about nothing["] aloud; read XI XII XIII Essays of Hume.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Much Ado about Nothing	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Lady Morgans "France".'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lady Morgan	France	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lady Morgan	France	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S walks - & reads I book of Paradise Lost in the evening.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Tacitus and Hume. S reads Gibbon - read G[e]orgics - 194'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Gibbon a[nd] 2 book of Paradise Lost.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts referred to in the journals are not given separate en...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Apuleius	Metamorphoses	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S finishes Homer's Hymns'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	Hymns	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Gibbon'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud [to] us - We sleep at Rheims.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	August W. von Schlegel	Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Schlegel aloud and we travel on in a pleasant country among nice people - We sleep at Dijon'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	August W. von Schlegel	Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Aminta with Shelley - he reads Vita del Tasso'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pietro Antonio Serassi	La vita di Torquato Tasso	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pietro Antonio Serassi	La vita di Torquato Tasso	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Dante Alighieri	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'begin Clarissa Harlowe in Italian - S. reads and finishes Dante's Purgatorio'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Dante Alighieri	Purgatorio	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Hamlet'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. unwell - he reads the Paradiso'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Dante Alighieri	Paradiso	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's...	Samuel Pepys	John Evelyn	Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where...	Samuel Pepys	John Evelyn	Publick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's to solitude	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Boyle	Experiments and considerations touching colours	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After supper, I to read and then to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the Ri...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Boyle	Experiments and considerations touching colours	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And there finding them all at church, and thinking they dined as usual at Stepny, I turned back, having a good book i...	Samuel Pepys	George Cavendish	The life and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal ... written by one of his own servants, being his gentleman usher	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so walked to Stepny and spent my time in the churchyard looking over the gravestones, expecting when the company ...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	[gravestones]	Manuscript: Graffito
	1600-1699	'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vex...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Boyle	Hydrostatical Paradoxes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders;...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Christian Majesty	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The...	Samuel Pepys	Roger L'Estrange [translator]	The visions of Don Francisco de Quevedo	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Boyle	Hydrostatical Paradoxes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.'	Samuel Pepys	William Lilly	Merlini Anglici Ephemeris	Print: Book, almanac
	1600-1699	'and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's "Pleas of the Crowne", very fine noble read...	Samuel Pepys	Sir Edward Coke	The third part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: concerning High Treason, and other pleas of the Crown	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport...	Samuel Pepys	Andrew Marvell	The second and third advice to a painter, for drawing the history of our navall actions, the last two years	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostat...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Boyle	Hydrostatical Paradoxes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to my chamber and read the history of 88 in Speede, in order to my seeing the play thereof acted tomorrow at t...	Samuel Pepys	John Speed	The history of Great Britaine	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then home and to my chamber to read'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so walked to Barne Elmes, whither I sent Russell, reading of Mr Boyles "Hydrostatickes", which are of infinite de...	Samuel Pepys	Robert Boyle	Hydrostatical Paradoxes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Les Abderites. S. finishes Aristippe'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Christoph Martin Wieland	Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read trans. of Lucian - S reads Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads Manso's life of Tasso'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Giovanni Battista Manso	La vita di Torquato Tasso	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Hippolitus of Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Hippolitus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mile et une nuits'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Philoctetes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Electra	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Ajax	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 9th Canto of Ariosto - Finish Phormio - S reads Ajax'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Ajax	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads the alcestis [sic] of Euripides.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Alceste	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Xenophon	Memorabilia Socratis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Xenophon	Memorabilia socratis	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads aloud 6 eclogues from the Shepherds Calender[sic]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	Shepheardes Calendar, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads a part of the Shepherds Calender [sic] aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	Shepheardes Calendar, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Gibbon and the Clouds of Aristophanes'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aristophanes	Clouds, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in t...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aristophanes	Clouds, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in t...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	David Hume	History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Plutus of Aristophanes & Gibbon'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aristophanes	Plutus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aristophanes	Lysistratae	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Gibbon	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	David Hume	History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Aristophanes - & Anarcharsis [sic]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	J-J Barthelemy	Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	J-J Barthelemy	Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to M...	Samuel Pepys	Katherine Phillips	Poems	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Only, here I met with a fourth "Advice to the painter", upon the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the w...	Samuel Pepys	Andrew Marvell	Directions to a painter for describing our naval business ... by an unknown author	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the ...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	London's Flames, or The discovery of such evidence as were deposed before the Committee of Parliament etc, with the insolences of the Popish party	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and here I read the Qu's to Knepp while she answered me, through all her part of "Flora's Figarys", which was acted t...	Samuel Pepys	Richard Rhodes	Flora's Vagaries	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then to my chamber to read the true story in Speed of the Black Prince; and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	John Speed	The history of Great Britaine	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this n...	Samuel Pepys	Richard Garnet	The book of oaths ... very useful for all persons whatsoever, especially those that undertake any office of magistracy or publique employment	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'all morning at the office finishing my letter to Sir Rob Brookes, which I did with great content; and yet at noon, wh...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[letter to Sir Robert Brookes]	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	'After dinner by coach as far as the Temple and there saw a new book in Folio of all that suffered for the King in the...	Samuel Pepys	David Lloyd	Memories of the lives ... of those noble ... personages	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'Then home to read, sup and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives ground to think of Don Quixot's adventures how pe...	Samuel Pepys	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadv...	Samuel Pepys	[n/a]	[office letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	'I read to her out of the "History of Algiers", which is mighty pretty reading'	Samuel Pepys	John Davies [transl]	The history of Algiers and its slavery	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have...	Samuel Pepys	Michel Millot	L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Fill...	Samuel Pepys	Michel Millot	L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what dot...	Samuel Pepys	Michel Millot	L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below s...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward ...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	Memorandums and Conclusions of the Navy Board	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wro...	Samuel Pepys	Duchess of Newcastle	The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince, William Cavendishe, Duke ... of Newcastle .. written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, Duchess of Newcastle, his wife	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.'	Samuel Pepys	Duchess of Newcastle	The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince, William Cavendishe, Duke ... of Newcastle .. written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, Duchess of Newcastle, his wife	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home, and there spent the evening making Balty read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'	Balthasar St Michael	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obr...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[street ballads]	Print: Broadsheet, Handbill
	1600-1699	'and there got Balty to read to me out of Sorbiere's observations in his voyage into England; and then to bed.'	Balthasar St Michael	Samuel de Sorbiere	voyage into England	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at ...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[Report]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'and then up about 7 and to White-hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkely and then afterward at ...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[Report]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order ...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	Principal Officer's instructions	Unknown
	1600-1699	'I walked to the Temple and stayed at Starky's my bookseller's (looking over Dr Heylins new book of the life of Bishop...	Samuel Pepys	Peter Heylyn	Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[paper on the faults of the Navy]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther...	James, Duke of York	[unknown]	[paper on the faults of the Navy]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the ...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	'Walked to St James and Pell Mell, and read over with Sir W. Coventry my long letter to the Duke of York and what the ...	Sir William Coventry	Samuel Pepys	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[draft of the victualler's contract]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c...	Sir William Penn	[unknown]	[draft of the victualler's contract]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'Going down I spent reading of the "Five Sermons of Five Several Styles"; worth comparing one with another, but I do t...	Samuel Pepys	Abraham Wright	Five sermons in five several styles	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my let...	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Yesterday I received a letter that gave me much pleasure from a poor fellow student of mine who has been all winter v...	Robert Louis Stevenson	a fellow student of Robert Louis Stevenson	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'All right, I'll see what I can do. Before I could answer, I had to see the book; and my good father, after trying at ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton	Fables in Song	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'All right, I'll see what I can do....Does the "sans extract" mean that I [italics] simply God-damn-mustn't [end itali...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	unknown	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'Jenkin wrote to say he would second me in such a nice little notelet. I shall go in for it (the Savile I mean) whethe...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	'And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home to read and sup; and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and after supper to read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will Pen for the Quakers; but so full of nothing bu...	Samuel Pepys	William Penn	Truth exalted; in a short, but sure, testimony against those religions, faiths and worships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacy	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and there to Mr Wren at his chamber at White-hall ... And there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so m...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[paper on naval business]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'This evening comes Mr Billup to me to read over Mr Wren's alterations of my draft of a letter for the Duke of York to...	Samuel Pepys	Samuel Pepys	[letter with corrections by Matthew Wren]	Manuscript: Letter
	1600-1699	'and then home to supper and read a little, and to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	unknown	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home and to supper and read'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so home and to supper and read'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and so to read and to supper, and so to bed.'	Samuel Pepys	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'But by this discourse he was pleased to show me and read to me his account, which he hath kept by him under his own h...	Sir William Coventry	Sir William Coventry	[record of discourse upon business of Lord Clarendon]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...	S.D.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...	T.S.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...	W.S.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...	S.K.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...	H.S. al D.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...	J.S. al E.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...	J.S.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	S.G., transport convict writing from Portsmouth: 'During my stay at Pentonville I was, comparatively speaking, comfort...	S.G.	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Case study, E.E.S., a Jew, young man of respectable German family, at first confined in a common prison where associat...	E.E.S.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's Engla...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	David Hume	History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	J.-J. Barthelemy	Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Symposium	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and H...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Symposium	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and H...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Christoph Martin Wieland	Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. translates the Symposium and reads the Maid's Tragedy of Beaumont'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	The Maides Tragedy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philas...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	Philaster; or Love lyes a-bleeding	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. translates the Symposium - & reads a king and no king'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	A King and No King	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Symposium	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	Laws of Candy, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Fletcher	Wife for a Month, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	David Hume	History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the Second book of Livy - Read Horace and Anacharsis - S. translates the Symposium and reads Herodotus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Herodotus	Histories	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Orlando Furioso - read Anacharsis - S. corrects the Symposium and reads Herodotus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Herodotus	Histories	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Mme Garschine's was rather sad and gave me the blues a bit'.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sophie Garschine	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at vi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at vi...	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	unknown	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraf...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraf...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraf...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Mary Wollstonecraft	Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [......	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Saturday Sept. 17th. [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Southey	The Curse of Kehama	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Southey	Thalaba the Destroyer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Southey	Thalaba the Destroyer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening fini...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Southey	Thalaba the Destroyer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening fini...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Robert Southey	Thalaba the Destroyer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.' ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Print: Book
	1800-1849	''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.' ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Wordsworth	'The Mad Mother'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads p...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward du Bois	St Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sunday Oct. 9th. [...] Read Political Justice [...] Shelley reads aloud part of Abbe Barruel about the Illuminati'....	Percy Bysshe Shelley	L'Abbe Augustin Barruel	Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tuesday Oct. 11th. [...] Shelley reads [a]loud Abbe Barruel -- the Illuminati [...] read Political Justice & talk w...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	L'Abbe Augustin Barruel	Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du jacobinisme	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to see Shelley at ele...	Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin	Oliver Goldsmith	She Stoops to Conquer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Accounts of prisoners: T.S., aged 17, Reg no. 312. 'conduct most satisfactory. Committed to memory several chapters...	T.S.	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Saturday April 18. [...] Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1850-1899	?Friday. I have got on rather better with the ?Fables?; perhaps it won?t be a failure, though I still fear...Saturday....	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton	Fables in Song	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have received such a nice long letter (four sides) from Leslie Stephen today; about my ?V. Hugo?. It is accepted.?	Robert Louis Stevenson	Leslie Stephen	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Saturday -- Jan. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno. Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while S...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	St Matthew	Gospel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Thursday Jany. 20th. [...] Work all day. S. reads Henry 4th to us.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry IV	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Herodotus	Histories	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	David Hume	Histoiry of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschylus	Persae	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Chetwode Eustace	Tour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scenery, its Antiquities, and its Monuments... with an account of the present state of its cities and towns and occasional Observations on the recent Spoliations of the French	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads ye Phaedrus of Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Phaedrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Richard III in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Richard III	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Richard III	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Theocritus	Idylls	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Theocritus	Idylls	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Theocritus - & Henry VIII aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry VIII	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry VIII	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Theocritus and Virgil's Georgics - after tea he reads aloud and finishes the play of Henry VIII'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley is not well - he reads Lucan'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lucan	Bellum Civile / Pharsalia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Torquato Tasso	La Gerusalemme liberata	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	'L'Allegro'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	'Il Penseroso'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedi...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Oedipus Tyrannos	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. calls on Lord B - He [presumably Shelley] reads the 4th Canto of Childe Harold'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Malthus	Essay on the Principle of Population	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Malthus	Essay on the Principle of Population	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish the trajedies of Alfieri - Walk out with S. He reads Malthus & Cymbeline aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Cymbeline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Malthus	Essay on the Principle of Population, An	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Cymbeline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Vita di Alfieri & Livy - S. reads Winter's tale aloud to me'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Winter's Tale	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Vita di Alfieri - half the 9th book of Virgil - S reads Winters tale aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Winter's Tale	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Henry Fielding	History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sleep at Bologna - S. reads 4th Canto aloud to me - read Montaigne'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Livy'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ab Urbe Condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Corinne & Livy - S reads Corinne'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Madame de Stael	Corinne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Johann Joachim Winckelmann	Geschichte der Kunst des Alterhums	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Johann Joachim Winckelmann	Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Sismondi and Dante - S. finishes Livy'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Livy	Ab urbe condita	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S read Plutarch's lives.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Georgics and Dante - S. read Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Johann Joachim Winckelmann	Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Lucretius'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Lucretius	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Medea Euripedes [sic]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Medea	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Plutarchs life of Marius'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch	'Life of Marius'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Romeo & Juliet - S. reads the Hipolitus [sic] of Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	Hippolitus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	[History Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so data...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Malthus	Essay on Population	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so data...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Apology of Socrates	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary's list of Percy Shelley's reading in 1819 - database entries are based on references in the journal]. s Eu...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides		Print: Book
	1850-1899	?I send you L. Stephen?s letter, which is certainly very kind and jolly to get. Please show it, if you get a chance, t...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Leslie Stephen	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	?You can tell Lang this. I heard from him, and will answer soon.?	Robert Louis Stevenson	Andrew Lang	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	?Your letter came this morning. I own I am troubled about its contents: I fear for your health, dear friend, in such a...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Frances Sitwell	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Thomas Campbell to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 August 1822, in response to her having asked his opinion of her narrative poe...	Thomas Campbell	Elizabeth Barrett	Leila	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	Roman Law	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826: 'When Luxmoore was with us, a little before he called at Hope...	[probably] Charles Scott Luxmoore	Uvedale Price	dissertation on modern pronunciation of classical Greek	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.?	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	"On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song"	Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article
	1800-1849	'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S....	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S....	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the e...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Alchemist, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	Philaster, or Love Lies Bleeding	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Revolt of Islam, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Giovanni Boccaccio	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] - The Greek Tragedians & Calderon'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Bocaccio [sic] aloud - & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Giovanni Boccaccio	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - & Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening - read 24th Canto of Dante with him'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Sad Shepherd, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - Dante with me - & finishes the Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Sad Shepherd, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[Francesco] Petrarch [Petrarco]	Il trionfo della Morte	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am reading Herbert Spencer just now very hard.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Herbert Spencer	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Do you remember the knocking in Macbeth? ...The porter is a man I have a great respect for. He had a great command of...	Mrs Stevenson	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 11 April 1826: 'Mrs. Campbell & her lovely children quite well. ...	Mrs Deffell	Elizabeth Barrett	An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Philip Massinger	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon	[probably] History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon	History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Clarendon aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon	History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. visits the galleries - writes - reads Spinosa - Clarendon aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Baruch Spinoza	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Wordsworth	Peter Bell: a tale in verse	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Madame de Stael	Considerations sur les principaux evenemens de la Revolution francaise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Gospel of St Luke	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	La devocion de la Cruz	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	El Purgatorio de San Patricio	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	Los cabellos de Absalon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	La cisma de Ingilterra	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	El principe constante	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	Cypriano	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	El magico prodigioso	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	Los dos amantes del cielo	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Have you yet seen Middlemarch? You would not be quite so unsophisticated a visitor to Rome as Miss Brooke.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Eliot	Middlemarch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I have had all things considered and thanks principally to Philip, a very passable Christmas day [...] then went upst...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Makepeace Thackeray	The Adventures of Philip	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	James Commeline to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 December 1827: 'Together with Mr Price's book, allow me to return you my be...	The Rev. James Commeline Jr	Uvedale Price	An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Gospel of St Matthew	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads D.[on] Juan aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley reads the Tempest alout [sic] - & the Bible & Sophocles to himself'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Tempest, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Tempest, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - he reads the Hercules of Sophocles aloud to me'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Sophocles	Hercules	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry IV Part I	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	King John	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the bible - and Muller's universal History'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Johannes von Muller	Allgemeine Geschichte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read Julie - S returns [from Leghorn] - he reads Isaiah aloud to me.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Isaiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Isaiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Jeremiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Bartolome de las Casas	Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschylus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Athenaeus	Deipnosophistai	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Bartolome Las Casas	Brevissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[unknown]	Jeremiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Henry IV aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry IV	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy & F of the Bees. S. reads Solis' History of Mexico'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra	Historia de la conquista de Mejico	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy. F. of the Bees - Copy S's poems. S reads the Hist. of Mexico - & Henry IV aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra	Historia de la conquista de Mejico	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Henry V'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Henry VI aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry VI	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	Henry VI	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Hobbes	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Ezekiel	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Hobbes'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Hobbes	Humane Nature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Tobit aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Tobit	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Fall of Sejanus aloud. reads Hobbes. On Man.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Sejanus, his Fall	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Hobbes - Catalines plot aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Cataline, his Conspiracy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] with Shelley - Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. finishes the Leviathan of Hobbes. reads th...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Hobbes	Leviathan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. Read Lettres Cabalistiques - S. reads Ezechiel aloud. Reads Political Justice -'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Godwin	Enquiry Concerning Political Justice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza] - S. reads 1 1/2 Virgil aloud - he reads Political Justice - Read Tasso'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid [?]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Voltaire [pseud.]	M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de Voltaire	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary...	Hugh Stuart Boyd	St Chrysostom	'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Translate s[pinoza] - S reads the Aenied [sic] aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S finishes aloud the 3rd book of the Aenied [sic] aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aeni...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Locke	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Wisdom of Solomon in the evening aloud. Reads Locke and Political Justice.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Book of Wisdom of Solomon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S finishes 8th book of Virgil - read Ovid'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S finishes Phaedrus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Phaedrus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S reads Fletcher's Tragedy of Bonduca aloud to me in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	Tragedy of Bonduca	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	Tragedy of Bonduca	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Phaedon	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S finishes the Trajedy to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Francis Beaumont	Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads to me Spencer's Virgil's Gnat'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Edmund Spenser	'Virgil's Gnat'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Theocritus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Theocritus	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Paradise Regain[e]d aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Paradise regained aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Euripides	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish 40th Book of Livy - Finish Virgil - S. reads Riciadetto to me'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Niccolo Fortiguerra	Ricciardetto	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Greek Romances'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Greek Romances	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Greek Romances	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the ...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Niccolo Fortiguerra	Ricciardetto	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finish Greek Romances'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	[n/a]	Greek Romances	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes his translation of Homer's hymn to Mercury'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Homer	'Hymn to Mercury'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. begins Hist of Engd'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Catherine Macaulay	History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Then there is Mr Brand's lantern and his Highland cloak; and the tale of how he, John Brand, right royally attired in...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry Erskine	The Garb of Old Gaul	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'You may be interested to hear that the Miss Jaffrays are reading: having only eyes and not a 'pair of patent double m...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Dickens	Pickwick Papers Chapter 34	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I cannot tell you what they [the Miss Jaffrays] are reading. Perhaps Queechy ...'	Misses Jaffray	Elizabeth (Susan) Wetherell (Warner)	Queechy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b...	Mary Russell Mitford	Thomas Percy	Reliques of Ancient English Poetry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b...	Mary Russell Mitford	Walter Scott	Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b...	Mary Russell Mitford		'old English [i.e. Renaissance] drama'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b...	Mary Russell Mitford	Victor Hugo	plays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b...	Mary Russell Mitford	Victor Hugo	Notre-Dame de Paris	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b...	Mary Russell Mitford	Jean Froissart	Chronicles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b...	Mary Russell Mitford	Elizabeth Barrett	'The Poet's Vow'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'[Shelley] reads Appolonius [sic] Rhodius'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Apollonius Rhodius	Argonautica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the T...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Apollonius Rhodius	Argonautica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the T...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Catherine Macaulay	History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the T...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Fletcher	Double Marriage, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Catherine Macaulay	History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Plato	Republic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Stuart Mill to W. J. Fox, c.25 June 1833: 'I send "Pauline," having done all I could, which was to annotate co...	John Stuart Mill	Robert Browning	Pauline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of goo...	Charles Darwin	Thomas Henry Lister	Granby	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of goo...	Charles Darwin	Humphry Davy	Researches, Chemical and Philosophical	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have tried to follow your advice about the Bible, what part of the Bible do you like best? I like the Gospels. Do y...	Charles Darwin		Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Walk up the Mountain with S. - he reads aloud Lovers Progress'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Philip Massinger	Lovers' Progress, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Wiliam Robertson	History of America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Giovanni Boccaccio	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the history of Charles 5th by Robertson'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Robertson	History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V, with a view of the progress of society in Europe from the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteenth century	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Antient Metaphysics'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	James Burnett, Lord Monboddo	Antient Metaphysics; or, the Science of Universals	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Gillies	History of Ancient Greece, its colonies and conquests; from the earliest accounts, till the division of the Macedonian Empire in the East, including the history of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Herodotus - Gillies & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Herodotus	Histories	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Giovanni Boccaccio	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Hyperion aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	John Keats	Hyperion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India'	Thomas Medwin	Barry Cornwall [pseud.]	Dramatic Scenes, and other poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I performed one Herculean task, having nearly finished Clarissa Harlowe, the most glorious novel ever written, & I ad...	Charles Darwin	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India''	Thomas Medwin	Thomas Medwin	[journal of time in India]	Manuscript: diary
	1800-1849	'Write - Read Homer - Targione - Spanish - A rainy day. S. reads Calderon'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Reading list by Mary Shelley of Percy Shelley's reading in 1820. All texts are mentioned in journal entries so do not...	Percy Bysshe Shelley		New Testament	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Erskine	Armata: a fragment	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	James Boswell	Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione...	Percy Bysshe Shelley		Encyclopaedia Britannica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads fragments of Aeschylus'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aeschylus	[fragments]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.'	Charles Darwin	John Frederick William Herschel	Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the vita nuova aloud to me in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Dante Alighieri	La Vita Nuova	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'All the while I am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm trees in th...	Charles Darwin	Humboldt	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I hope you continue to fan your Canary ardor: I read & reread Humboldt, do you do the same, & I am sure nothing will ...	Charles Darwin	Humboldt	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Part III is 'the reconciliation', in Spencer's phrase, - a mean term between I and II, a minimistic retrospect on both.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Herbert Spencer	A System of Synthetic Philosophy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boile...	Mary Russell Mitford	Jean Racine	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 February 1838: 'I have just been reading Racine's "Letters," and Boile...	Mary Russell Mitford	Nicolas Boileau Despreaux	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Noon Talfourd to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 June 1838: 'Mr Serjt Talfourd presents his compliments to Miss Barrett...	Thomas Noon Talfourd	Elizabeth Barrett	The Seraphim	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you Cap. Beecheys voyage to the Pacific? if you have not, I will buy it, as it contains some most excellent Mete...	Charles Darwin	Frederick W Beechey	Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom. London	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After looking at my 11 books of Euclid, & first part of Algebra (including binomial theorem?) I may then begin Trigon...	Charles Darwin	Euclid	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I now first felt even moderately well, & I was picturing to myself all the delights of fresh fruit growing in beautif...	Charles Darwin	Humboldt	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'If you really want to have a [notion] of tropical countries, study Humboldt.? Skip th[e] scientific parts & commence ...	Charles Darwin	Alexander von Humboldt	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Nobody could possibly be better fitted out in every respect for collecting than I am: many cooks have not spoiled the...	Charles Darwin		La Dictionnaire Classique	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I suppose you all well know Heads book.? for accuracy & animation it is beyond praise.'	Charles Darwin	Francis Bond Head	Gallop: Rapid journeys across the Pampas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late March 1839: 'Beloved Papa & Sette were obliged to go away two days ...	Septimus Moulton-Barrett	Caesar	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839: 'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one...	Euphrasia Fanny Haworth	Honore de Balzac	"Scenes"	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Judging from the Pamphlet, you gave me & which I have found very useful, the insects of the Rio Plata are tolerably w...	Charles Darwin	Jean Theodore Lacordaire	M?moire sur les habitudes des Col?opt?res de l'Am?rique m?ridionale.
	1800-1849	'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly ...	Thomas Carlyle	Henry Hart Milman	Samor, the Lord of the Bright City	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am now reading the Oxford Report.'	Charles Darwin		The Report of the second meeting of the British Association at Oxford in 1832.	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing be...	Thomas Carlyle	Charles Hughes Terot	Poems	Manuscript: Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC
	1850-1899	?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Frances Sitwell	letter	Manuscript: Letter, Passage refers to various letters from Frances Sitwell to RLS, dates and subjects unspecified here. Letters received by RLS before 4 June 1874 [date ascribed by the editors to the cited passage].
	1850-1899	?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I t...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	Victor Hugo's Romances	Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
	1850-1899	?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up f...	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Sand	Comtesse de Rudolstadt
	1850-1899	?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a...	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Sand	Consuelo	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long...	Samuel Smiles	John Home	Douglas	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long...	Samuel Smiles	Campbell	The Wizard's Warning	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I remember, when a little boy, getting my first introduction to the novels of Walter Scott - then the "Great Unknown"...	Samuel Smiles	Walter Scott	Guy Mannering	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 January 1840: 'I have been reading "Jack Sheppard," and have been str...	Mary Russell Mitford	William Harrison Ainsworth	Jack Sheppard: A Romance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 3 March 1840: 'I had a kind message from Captain Marryat once [...] but ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Captain Frederick Marryat, R.N.	novels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840: 'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received yo...	Walter Savage Landor	Robert Browning	Paracelsus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Athe...	Thomas Carlyle	Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)	The Liberal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal? Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a ...	Thomas Carlyle	Andrew Ure	Review of 'Description of Instruments, Designed for Extending and Improving Meteorological Observations' (1820)	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The ...	Thomas Carlyle	Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)	The Liberal	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840: 'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and w...	William Charles Macready	Robert Browning	The Return of the Druses	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch w...	Thomas Carlyle	Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de Sade	Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarch	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind litt...	Thomas Carlyle	Margaret A. Carlyle	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on t...	S.J. Pratt	Mary Russell Mitford	Miscellaneous Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A fortnight ago, having employed myself in reading White's "Selborne", and being extremely fond of natural history, a...	Sir William Elford	Gilbert White	Selborne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just finished your poem of "The Sisters", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and de...	Sir William Elford	Mary Russell Mitford	The Sisters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of "Tales of Fashionable Lif...	Sir William Elford	Maria Edgeworth	Tales of Fashionable Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By the way, I am in the train of reading the "History of Clarissa", who affords a notable example that fear is not th...	Sir William Elford	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears t...	Sir William Elford	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa; or, the History of a Young Lady	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am happy that you think with me about waltzing. Have you seen Sir H. Englefield's verses? They appear to me perfect...	Sir William Elford	Sir H. Englefield	Verses on Waltzing	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. begins King Lear in the evening.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	William Shakespeare	King Lear	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Antient Mariner aloud'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the Case is Altered of B.[en] Jonson aloud in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Case is Altered, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Tale of a Tub	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Walk with S. - he reads some of the tales of Sacchetti aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Franco Sacchetti	Delle novelle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'walk with S. - he reads Every Man in his humour aloud in the evening'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Every Man in his Humour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ben Jonson	Every Man in his Humour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. goes to Pisa. - finishes the Rape of the Lock to me in the Evening.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Alexander Pope	Rape of the Lock, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Pope's Essay on Criticism aloud.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Alexander Pope	Essay on Criticism, An	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads the first book of Troilus & Cressida aloud in the evening.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Geoffrey Chaucer	Troilus and Criseyde	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for ...	Frances Trollope	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in S...	Susanna Strickland	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ...	Miss Howitt	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 June 1841: 'I have been reading Blanchard's life of poor L.E.L. [...]...	Mary Russell Mitford	Samuel Laman Blanchard	Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Browning	Sordello	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Browning	Pippa Passes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841: '[Crow] is an excellent young woman -- intelligent bright...	Miss Crow	Mary Russell Mitford	Our Village	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 October 1841: 'I never read Leigh Hunt's book [...] because (now come...	Mary Russell Mitford	Leigh Hunt	Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Give Mr Whewell my best thanks for sending me his tide paper: all on board are much interested by it.'	Charles Darwin	William Whewell	Essay Towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.)	'Floure and the Leaf, The', attributed to Chaucer in edition of his Works.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads Chaucer's flower and the leaf & then Chaucer's dream to me. Read Tacitus.'	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Thomas Tyrwhitt (ed.)	'Chaucer's Dream', attributed to Chaucer in edition of his Works.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'S. reads L.[ord] B.[yron]'s - Heaven and Earth in the evening'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Heaven and Earth	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I bought Darwin's last book in despair, for I knew I could generally read Darwin, but it was a failure.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Darwin	The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1841: 'Mrs Niven may keep the Pneumatology as long, just as l...	Mary Russell Mitford	Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling	Theory of Pneumatology	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to William Harness, February 1842: 'My poor father has passed this winter in a miserable state...	Mary Russell Mitford		daily newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'I have kept back my letter that I might send you S...	Mrs Cox	Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 9 January 1842: 'My dear love -- I have just looked through the Blue Bel...	Mary Russell Mitford	Frances Trollope	The Blue Belles of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1842: 'I have only read the first volume of Madame D'Arblay's "Dia...	Mary Russell Mitford	Frances Burney	Diary and Letters (Volume 1)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 March 1842: 'Since writing to you yesterday, my beloved friend, I have...	Mary Russell Mitford	H. F. Chorley	Music and Manners	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight cont...	Sidney Webb	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was n...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	"Victor Hugo's Romances"	Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
	1850-1899	?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	[material on John Knox]	Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842: 'I made my father happy in reading what you say of Sir R...	Mary Russell Mitford	Elizabeth Barrett	letter to Mary Russell Mitford	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, ?27 March 1842: 'I remember a few years ago reading speeches by O'Connel...	Mary Russell Mitford		speeches of Daniel O'Connell	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Wiliam Charles Macready, Journal, 6 August 1841: 'Finished the play of Plighted Troth -- a play written in a quaint...	William Charles Macready	Charles F. Darley	Plighted Troth	Unknown
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab...	Mary Russell Mitford	Elizabeth Barrett	'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab...	Mrs Jamieson	Elizabeth Barrett	'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab...	Richard Hengist Horne	Elizabeth Barrett	'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	William Charles Macready, Jr. to Robert Browning, May 1842: 'My dear Mr Browning 'I was very much obliged to you, fo...	William Charles Macready	Robert Browning	'The Cardinal and the Dog'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 12 January 1842: 'In reading "Tom Cringle's Log" to my father, the othe...	Mary Russell Mitford	Scott	'Tom Cringle's Log'	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 4 May 1842: 'I have had a great shock lately, in the death of poor La...	Mary Russell Mitford		death notice of Lady Sidmouth	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ...	Joseph Arnould	Robert Browning	'Waring'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 13 December 1842: 'I read Tennyson. "Locksley Hall" is very fine; but s...	Mary Russell Mitford	Alfred Tennyson	'Locksley Hall'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Francis Horner to his sister, 26 October 1815: 'I told you I was reading Don Roderick the Goth; and notwithstanding...	Francis Horner	Robert Southey	Roderick, the Last of the Goths	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Pinnock	[?] Catechism of the History of England	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Pinnock	Catechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the World	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Sarah Trimmer	Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Church Catechism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this da...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Book of Isaiah	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Joseph Addison	Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
	1800-1849	'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
	1800-1849	'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mason	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Joseph Addison	Cato	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Gottfried August Burger	Lenore	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of m...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Book of Judges	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large por...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Walter Scott	Lady of the Lake, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only du...	Eliazbeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's "Communicant's Companion" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have ta...	Eliazbeth Missing Sewell	Matthew Henry	Communicant's Companion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Russell	History of Modern Europe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Robertson	History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Isaac Watts	Improvement of the Mind, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[History of Venetian Doges]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[a Spanish grammar]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[a Spanish dictionary]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[Linnaean botany book]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Walter Scott	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Walter Scott	Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived fr...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Laetitia Hawkins	Countess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Discipline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Joseph Butler	Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Henry Newman	Tracts for the Times	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mary Martha Sherwood	[Tales]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Stories on the Lord's Prayer	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Amy Herbert	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel i...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charlotte Yonge	Daisy Chain, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Stories on the Lord's Prayer	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Mary Martha Sherwood	[Tales based on Church Catechism]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Earl's Daughter, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Margaret Percival	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Laneton parsonage	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Wolfe was a great admirer of Gray's "Elegy"; and as he was going down the river with his officers, previous to the st...	James Wolfe	Thomas Gray	'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling no...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Henry Newman	[a sermon]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of th...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	Life of Stephen Langton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed s...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Cecilia Frances Tilley	Chollerton: A tale of our own times	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws"...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Harriet Martineau	Forest and Game-Law Tales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Archibald Alison	History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's i...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Robert Southey	Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They ce...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	John Ruskin	Lectures on Architecture and Painting	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	J.W. Kaye	Life and correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Charles Kingsley	Hypatia - or New Foes with an Old Face	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Edward Bouverie Pusey	[Sermons]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	Thomas Carlyle	Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[n/a]	Times, The	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Elizabeth Missing Sewell	[unknown]	[pamphlets and magazines]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...	Mrs Meyrick	Charles Kingsley	Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 August 1843: 'I intended to return the book much earlier, but [...] the "L...	Thomas Westwood	Elizabeth Barrett	'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 August 1843: 'Miss Mitford read to me -- and with what a melodious f...	Mary Russell Mitford	Elizabeth Barrett	'The House of Clouds'	Unknown
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass...	Thomas Westwood	Robert Browning	Pippa Passes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass...	Thomas Westwood	Elizabeth Barrett	review of Richard Hengist Horne, Orion	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass...	Thomas Westwood	Elizabeth Barrett	'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	The Shadow of Death
	1850-1899	'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near he...	Robert Louis Stevenson	D.V. Thomas	advertisement	Unknown
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843: 'I must not forget to thank you for your recommendation of ...	Thomas Westwood	Richard Hengist Horne	Orion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him...	Thomas Westwood	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ode to a Skylark	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him...	Thomas Westwood	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Alastor	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him...	Thomas Westwood	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Prometheus Unbound	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 January 1844: 'Shelley, I have read, through & through, & love & admire him...	Thomas Westwood	Percy Bysshe Shelley	The Revolt of Islam (Canto I)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'?I am reading Ruskin?s "Stones of Venice"with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?'	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Ruskin	Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I [...] was singing after my own fashion "Du hast diamentem und Perlen"[...]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Heinrich Heine	Du hast Diamenten und Perlen	Print: song
	1800-1849	Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 January 1844: 'Do you know Mrs Norton's poetry? Much I have seen, I ...	Richard Hengist Horne	Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	poems	Unknown
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many ...	Thomas Westwood	Richard Hengist Horne	plays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many ...	Thomas Westwood	Richard Hengist Horne	The Ballad of Delora	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844: 'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many ...	Thomas Westwood	Elizabeth Barrett	Annotations in Richard Hengist Horne, The Ballad of Delora	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844: 'Do you happen to know anything of ...	Richard Hengist Horne	Wiliam Carleton	'tales' (extracts)	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. I know the "Mysteri...	Mary Russell Mitford	Eugene Sue	The Mysteries of Paris	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have before me as I write a photo by Sir Aurel Stein showing the body of a man of Turfan buried fifteen centuries a...	Martin Louis Alan Gompertz ('Ganpat')	Sir Aurel Stein	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, ?12 April 1844: 'I have just finished the second volume [of A New Spirit of t...	Thomas Westwood	Richard Hengist Horne	A New Spirit of the Age	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'What a pity [Tennyson] has not the intense vigour of Robert Br...	Joseph Arnould	Robert Browning	Paracelsus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi ...	Joseph Arnould	John Webster	The Duchess of Malfi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning always reminds me of Webster, whose Duchess of Malfi ...	Joseph Arnould	John Webster	The White Devil	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sara Coleridge to John Kenyon, 1844: 'I return with thanks the Poems of Miss Barrett, which I now always mention in...	Sara Coleridge	Elizabeth Barrett	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 21 August 1844: 'I regret to say, dear Miss Barrett, that we have achieved ou...	Thomas Westwood	Elizabeth Barrett	Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Try two of Schubert?s songs ?Ich ungl?cksel?ger Atlas? and ?Du sch?nes Fischerm?dchen?. They are very jolly.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Heinrich Heine	[poems]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'I have read aloud my death-cycles from Walt Whitman this evening. I was very much affected myself, never so much befo...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walt Whitman	probably Leaves of Grass	Print: Book
	1850-1899	I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Bob Stevenson	letter	Manuscript: Letter
		Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Casimir Delavigne	Louis XI	Print: Book
		Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Casimir Delavigne	Marino Faliero	Print: Book
		Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Casimir Delavigne	Les Enfants d'Edouard	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Casimir Delavigne	Don Juan d'Autriche, ou la Vocation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Casimir Delavigne	La Popularite	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Casimir Delavigne	La Fille du Cid	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Casimir Delavigne	Une Famille au temps de Luther	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Eugene Sue	Le Salamandre (including Preface)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among th...	Mary Russell Mitford	Honore de Balzac	Une tenebreuse affaire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'Ah! dearest love, Frederika Bremer! I did read half "T...	Mary Russell Mitford	Frederika Bremer	The Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day Life	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'... I find I have nothing to say that has not been already perfectly said and perfectly sung in Adelaide.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Friedrich von Matthison	Adelaide	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In a shop in Buchanan Street, there was exposed a little gold wristlet with 'Phil. 1.3' upon it; look it up in the Ne...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Paul	Epistle to the Philippians, I.3	Print: wristlet
	1850-1899	'One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: gravestone
	1850-1899	'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it...	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Gordon Lord Byron	Mazeppa	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Many thanks. I have received the 15 quid, and the "Portfolio" proof.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	Notes on the Movements of Young Children.	Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay
	1850-1899	'I have written a review of Lauder?s "Scottish Rivers" for the "Academy" which I think you will like; I should not hav...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Dick Lauder	Scottish Rivers	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Meantime I am reading Grubers Wieland: he is about equal to Doctor Joralic our worthy friend: a more learned man, but...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Gottfried Gruber	Christop Martin Wieland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still ea...	Thomas Carlyle	George Gordon Byron	The Age Of Bronze	Print: BookManuscript: LetterUnknown
	1800-1849	'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I prop...	Thomas Carlyle	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingt...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Karl August Musaeus	Volksmahrchen der Deutschen	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	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 Selk...	Thomas Carlyle		[newspaper]	Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have publ...	Thomas Carlyle	Edward Irving	For The Oracles Of God, Four Orations	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'You may remember that I used to desire to outlive you: I have changed my cue: I should be left to speak in the words ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Emery Tylney	(in) Foxe's Book of Martyrs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more t...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Katharine de Mattos	unknown	Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
	1850-1899	'I have another letter from Groves [sic] about my ?John Knox?, which is flattering in its way: he is a very gushing an...	Charles Grove	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Knox	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I have seen nothing new, & have been reading the Memoirs of Mde de Maintenon in French, which are exceedingly enterta...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle	Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Madame de Maintenon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'My [underlined] vast [end underlining] dear Sister! O why, instead of 5, not give us [underlined ten, twenty [end un...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Frances Burney	Camilla; or, a Picture of Youth	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...	[Miss] Wilbraham	John Milton	Paradise Regained	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh...	[Miss] Wilbraham	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Lay of the Last Minstrel, The	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Robert Southey	Thalaba the Destroyer	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Joseph Cooper Walker	Historical and critical essay on the revival of the drama in Italy, An	Print: Book, Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Robert Southey	Letters written during a short residence in Spain and Portugal	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Henry Fielding	History of Tom Jones, a foundling, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Metastasio	L'Olimpiade	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Metastasio	Demofoonte	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Metastasio	Giuseppe riconosciuto	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Metastasio	Gioas re de Giuda	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Metastasio	La Clemenza di Tito	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Metastasio	Catone in Utica	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Metastasio	Attilio Regolo	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Metastasio	Ciro riconosciuto	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Metastasio	Zenobia	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Torquato Tasso	Aminta	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Ludovico Ariosto	Orlando Furioso	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney		Il balliano; ovvero Il vero amore ne'cimenti e piu forte	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pietro Chiari	La bella Pellegrina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Rinaldo di Capua	La zingara	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Scipione Maffei	La Merope	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I hate to be tantalized in such a way [referring to erratic correspondence]. - It is like being condemned to eat gree...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'So you are in correspondence with Mrs piozzi? Enviable Mortal! - Do you know I am, at this present writing, stark sta...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Hester Lynch Piozzi	Observations and Reflections made in the course of a journey through FRance, Italy and Germany	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Today we saw the cathedral at Chester; and, far more delightful, saw and heard a certain inimitable verger who took u...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Dickens	Christmas Stories (2, unnamed)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss James has lent me, and I have been reading Alphonsine - that is the two first volumes - and it has completely be...	Sarah Harriet Burney	[Madame] de Genlis	Alphonsine, ou la tendresse maternelle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Charles Burney	The exposition of the Creed, by J. Pearson... abridged for the use of young persons	Print: Book, printed book not yet published
	1800-1849	'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Samuel Johnson	Dictionary of the English Language, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Joseph Butler	Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Lady of the Lake, The	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Marmion	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Richard Westall	Day in Spring, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been with a nice little party of College friends, to see King John, and for a week after, I could do nothing b...	Sarah Harriet Burney	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The story of Julia and the daisies is beautiful - I read it to MF, (my father) and he liked it much'	Sarah Harriet Burney	Charlotte Barrett	[a letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'As I chose that my recent course of extravagance should die a melodious death [...] the last indulgence I gave it was...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Lady of the Lake, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	[unknown]	Monthly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	[unknown]	Quarterly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a w...	Esther Burney	Mary Brunton	Self-control	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Marie, marquise de Sevigne	[letters to her daughter - exact title uncertain]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of thi...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy	[letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 29 December 1844: 'I have read the "Chimes." I don't like it [...] Mr Di...	Mary Russell Mitford	Charles Dickens	The Chimes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Westland Marston to Thomas Powell, c. October 1844: 'Mrs Marston has just read "Sordello" through. She accompl...	Mrs Marston	Robert Browning	Sordello	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have the "PTFL" proof; and it is very fourth rate, I am afraid; not quite [italics] dead [end italics] you know, bu...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	"On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places"	Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay.
	1850-1899	'I found the proof of ?John Knox? waiting me here, and have despatched it.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	?John Knox and his Relations with Women??	Print: Proof copy.
	1850-1899	'My dear Katharine, I have gone over your paper at last (I would have done it sooner, had I found the time) [?].'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Katharine de Mattos	Included "Miss Griffin"?	Manuscript: Sheet, RLS calls it "your paper".
	1800-1849	'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a t...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Carlyle	Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'	Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and tha...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Francis Quarles	Emblems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and tha...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Katharine de Mattos	unknown	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Alphonse Lamartine	Histoire des Girondins	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Benjamin Nicolas Marie Appert	Dix Ans a la cour du roi Louis-Philippe et souvenirs du temps de l'Empire et de la Restauration	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Leon Gozlan	La Queue du chien d'Alcibiade	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Frederic Soulie	Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I can say this much that your paper has impressed me very much, and I shall never get the village out of my head; I k...	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Bunyan	The Pilgrim?s Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Alexandre Dumas	Les Deux Diane	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Alexandre Dumas	Memoires d'un Medecin: Joseph Balsamo	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet	Le Batard de Mauleon	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	J. Heneage Jesse	Literary and Historical Memorials of London	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Charles Saint John	Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And yet I am going to send you a book that was written altogether in the spirit of that place. I send it however, bec...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Baudelaire	Petits poemes en prose	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847: 'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writer...	Joseph Arnould	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Characteristics of the Present Age	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847: 'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writer...	Joseph Arnould	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	The Nature and Vocation of the Scholar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847: 'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writer...	Joseph Arnould	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	The Destination of Man	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often...	Joseph Arnould	Robert Browning	Paracelsus	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often...	Joseph Arnould	Robert Browning	Dramatic Lyrics	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Is it the third or the fifth book of Virgil you so much liked; I have taken to reading the third.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Virgil	The Aeneid, Books III and probably V	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I tried to read Tennyson?s Ode on the Dook of Wellington (which is the finest lyrical poem in the language in case yo...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington.	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, & ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	William Mitford	History of Greece, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you seen the little book, "Cottage Dialogues", by Mrs Leadbetter? Edgeworths notes are lively and [nationally] c...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Mary Leadbetter	Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more th...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Hannah More	Practical Piety	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's letters, and since then read Anquetils' "Louis XIV, Sa Cour, et le Regent". - ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Louis-Pierre Anquetil	Louis XIV, sa cour et le Regent	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le d...	Sarah Harriet Burney	[unknown]	[review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuvieme siecle"]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le d...	Sarah Harriet Burney	[unknown]	[review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Calleville, Voyage en Allemagne et en Suede]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am also reading with great veneration, but some degree of despondency, Practical Piety. The Chapter on "Comparative...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Hannah More	Practical Piety	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anch'io have been reading La Rochefaucould [sic] - and he has furnished me with an excellet Motto for my third Volume...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Francois de la Rochefoucauld	Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have, for Sunday reading, great delight in old South'	Sarah Harriet Burney	Robert South	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am reading Bartelemi's Anacharsis. which forms a sort of Appendix or rather comentary to the Grecian History I was ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Jean-Jacques Barthelemy	Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	"I too am reading Mme de Staal [sic], and am such a Goth, that I catch myself yawning over it! Probably I am not forme...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein	De l'Allemagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave abo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde d...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein	De L'Allemagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde d...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-Holstein	Zulma, et trois nouvelles	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave abo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Catherine Anne Dorset	Peacock "at home", The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you seen Guy Mannering? I perfectly doat upon it. There is such skill in the management of the fable, & it is so...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Guy Mannering	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"Discipline" people tell me to read, but I have no stomach to it, I believe because of the [underlined] name [end und...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Mary Brunton	Self Control	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Many thanks for the loan of "Emma", which, even amidst languor and depression, forced from me a smile, & af...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle sel...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle sel...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty years Since	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Scott	Visit to Paris in 1814, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Scott	Paris revisited in 1815 by way of Brussels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Alicia Tindal Palmer	Authentic Memoirs of the Life of John Sobieski	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Pierre-Simon Pallas	Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in 1793 and 1794	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll	The Reign of Law	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Transcription] 'Das Herz ist mir bedruckt und sehnlich Gedenke ich der alten Zeit; Die Welt war damals noch so w...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Heinrich Heine	Die Heimkehr. XXXIX Buch der Lieder	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henry Hallam	Constitutional History of England [?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have read Morley's second article on Education today'	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Morley	The Struggle for National Education	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walt Whitman	Leaves of Grass	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with m...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Richard Baxter	Baxteriana	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with m...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Richard Baxter	Of Coversing [sic] with God in Solitude	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There is here a Mrs Hutton of Birmingham with whom I have struck up an acquaintance because she wrote a clever amusin...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Catherine Hutton	Miser Married, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Accoun...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John McLeod	Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship the Alceste to the Yellow Sea	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Accoun...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Henry Ellis	Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost a...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Kenilworth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost a...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Monastery, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost a...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Abbot, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Giovanni Baptista Belzoni	Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Anna Maria Porter	Village of Mariendorpt, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel p...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Fortunes of Nigel, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel p...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Pirate, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Philippe-Paul, comte de Segur	Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee, pendant l'annee 1812	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Samuel Pepys	Memoirs of Samuel Pepys	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Bayley	History and Antiquities of the Tower of London, the	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Russell	Tour in Germany, and some of the southern provinces of the Austrian Empire, in... 1820, 1821, 1822	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What paltry stuff the Memoirs of poor vain Genlis are!'	Sarah Harriet Burney	Stephanie Felicite Brulart, comtesse de Genlis	Memoires	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Tor Hill, I have read - and was amused to find myself [underlined] en pays de connaissance [end underlining]. Many ye...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Horatio Smith	Tor Hill	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	James Fenimore Cooper	Spy, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The most spirit-stirring author, next to the Great Unknown [walter Scott], that I have met with, is the American who ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	James Fenimore Cooper	Last of the Mohicans, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have bought a book lately full of general information, & written in a good spirit - that is containing a happy mixt...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Mason Good	Book of Nature, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page t...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Walter Scott	Life of Napoleon Buonaparte	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page t...	Sarah Harriet Burney		[Reviews in the Quarterly Review of Bishop Heber's Journal]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I like your Capt. Franklin mainly - and his manly & respectful commendation of my poor dear James, is charming. - I a...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Franklin	Narrative of a Second expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1825, 1826 and 1827	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & so...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Giovanni Giraud	Commedie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If you want light easy Italian reading, get Giraud's Commedie - They are excessively amusing - Some are farcical & so...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Alberto Nota	Commedie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read only Italian books - and have just finished Niccolini's Foscarini, which is a fine masculine, energetic perfor...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Giovanni Battista Niccolini	Antonio Foscarini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I really wonder at, and am sorry that our tastes differ so much that you do not like Pignotti, though I like him so v...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Lorenzo Pignotti	Storia della Toscana sino al principato	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Lord Campbell	Lives of the Lord Chancellors etc	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I find I have no time for reading except times of fatigue when I wish merely to refresh myself. O − and I read ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Gustave Flaubert	La Tentation de Saint Antoine.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'... but I suppressed it at once and kept on at Wodrow's Analecta (a Covenanting book) and made my notes as best I cou...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Wodrow	Analecta	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The authorship of these beautiful verses has been most truculently fought about; but whoever wrote them (and it seems...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Michael Bruce	Ode to the Cuckoo	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am alone in the house, and so I allowed myself, at dinner, the first light reading I have indulged in since my retu...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Les Essais	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As Montaigne says, talking of something quite different:"Pour se laisser tomber a plomb, et de si haut, il faut que s...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Les Essais, Livre III, Ch XII, De la physionomie	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have had a day of open air; only a little modified by Le Capitaine Fracasse before the dining room fire.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Theophile Gautier	Le Capitaine Fracasse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It has the same talent as Emaux et Camees and no other.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Theophile Gautier	Emaux et Camees	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I had almost as soon have it in the Portfolio, as the Saturday; the P. is so nicely printed and I am gourmet in type.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Philip Gilbert Hamerton (editor)	The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Today I have been to church which has not improved my temper I must own. The clergyman did his best to make me hate h...	Robert Louis Stevenson		Bible, O.T., Judges, Chapter 5.	Print: Book, Bible or possibly prayerbook
	1900-1945	Virginia Woolf to Stephen Spender, 10 July 1934: 'I'm so happy that you read the Lighthouse with pleasure, when the...	Stephen Spender	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Patrice de MacMahon	unknown	Print: Poster
	1850-1899	'I have bought Sainte-Beuve's Chateaubriand and am immensely delighted with the critic.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve	Chateaubriand et son groupe litteraire sous l'Empire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Dowson has lent me Clough, which I like a good deal ..'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Arthur Hugh Clough	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Maria Edgeworth	Moral Tales for Young People	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Andrews seems very pleasant and we had a fierce forenoon of it over meteorology. He has Bookan (as he calls him)...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Alexander Buchan	Handy Book of Meteorology [?]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am much interested by Pignotti's history, which [underlined] though I bought [end underlining], I am reading, and h...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Lorenzo Pignotti	Storia della Toscana sino al principato	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The papers are sent to me very regularly by the kind Shuldhams, and I read them with indescribable eagerness; but the...	Sarah Harriet Burney		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Joseph-Francois Michaud	Histoire des Croisades	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Vincenzo Monti	Aristodemo	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Vincenzo Monti	Galeotto Manfredi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Vincenzo Monti	Caio Gracco	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I like - I admire the Italian translation of the Gospels & Psalms, which are what I have hitherto read. If the Prophe...	Sarah Harriet Burney		[Gospels and Psalms]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Layard has lent me Sir Humphry Davy's "Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher". It is a posthum...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Humphry Davy	Consolations in Travel, or the Last days of a Philosopher	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Another book of a very different character has amused me mightily; it is entitled "Tablettes Romaines", and is full o...	Sarah Harriet Burney	J.H., Count de Santo Domingo	Tablettes romaines; contenant des faits, des anecdotes et des observations sure les moeurs, les usages, les ceremonies, le gouvernement de Rome	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have just finished Trelawney's Adventures of a Younger Brother. It is a book that excites whilst reading, and leave...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Edward John Trelawney	Adventures of a Younger Son	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I must tell you about my way of life, which is regular to a degree. Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke aft...	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	works on the Reformation	Print: Book, Unknown
	1850-1899	'Thanks for the newspapers and for having marked them. Baildon has rather got it; I cannot but feel sympathy with the ...	Robert Louis Stevenson		The Scotsman/Edinburgh Courant	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I was much surprised at [what] Charteris said of John Stuart Mill. "Seemed to have been kind and benevolent" is used ...	Robert Louis Stevenson		Edinburgh Courant	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	[After a break in the letter:] 'There I had the wisdom to stop and look over Japanese picture books until lunch time.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	[Japanese picture books]	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'I have gone in for a course of George Sand with immense delight and good results to health, sprits and poor bemuddled...	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Sand	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read, please read, Francois le Champi by George Sand; it is like a dream of goodness and virtue and gentle heroism.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Sand	Francois le Champi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By the way, have you read Mr Morier's Hohrab, or the Hostage? And if you have, do you (as I hope) like it? And if you...	Sarah Harriet Burney	James Justinian Morier	Zohrab the Hostage	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Marie de Rabutin - Chantal, marquise de Sevigne	Letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and her friends	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Louis-Adolphe Thiers	Histoire de la Revolution Francaise	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Carlo Botta	Storia d'Italia, continuata da quella del Guicciardini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Andre Morellet	Memoires	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Baron E.L. de la Mothe - Houdancourt	Memoires de Madame la comtesse de Barri	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli...	Sarah Harriet Burney	William Robertson	History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli...	Sarah Harriet Burney	William Shakespeare	[History plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I came up from Lincolnshire to town on Monday and went down that night to Magdalen to read my Catullus, but while lyi...	Oscar Wilde	Algernon Charles Swinburne	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'That reminds me of Mallock?s New Republic in Belgravia; it is decidedly clever ? Jowett especially. If you have the k...	Oscar Wilde	William Hurrell Mallock	The New Republic, or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man da...	Oscar Wilde	Thomas ? Kempis	The Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Carlo Botta	Storia d'Italia	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Ludovico Ariosto	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;...	Sarah Harriet Burney	William Shakespeare	[plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;...	Sarah Harriet Burney	William Robertson	History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Plutarch	Lives	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking per...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Alexander Keith	Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, derived from the literal fulfilment of prophecy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking per...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Thomas Newton	Dissertations on the Prophecies, which have remarkably been fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Bourrienne's Memoirs? Sick as I thought myself of Buonaparte and all that related to his tremendous tho...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne	Memoires	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'All I can say at all likely to give you any pleasure is, that I read poor dear Charles Lamb's Memoirs and Letters wit...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Charles Lamb	Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Custo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Edward William Lane	Account of the manners and customs of the Modern Egyptians	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Custo...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Gardner Wilkinson	Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have the whole of her novels before me. Even La Petite Fadette, for as long as it was in the house, I had not read.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Sand	La Petite Fadette	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Charles Dickens	Sketches by 'Boz'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Charles Dickens	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Benson Earle Hill	Recollections of an Artillery Officer including scenes and adventures in Ireland, America, Flanders and France	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Charles Dickens	Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Anne Mathews	Memoirs of Charles Mathews, comedian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M...	Sarah Harriet Burney	George Crabbe	Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Thomas Campbell	Life of Mrs Siddons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you seen the Journal & letters of my dear Sister? & Charlotte Barrett's pretty Introduction. I earnestly hope th...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Frances (Burney) d'Arblay	Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Am charmed to find "The Diary" is approved by the General. The third vol: I think must be universally interesting - t...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Frances (Burney) d'Arblay	Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You want to know what I think of the "Diary". I wil tell you fairly & impartially. after wading with pain and sorrow ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Frances (Burney) d'Arblay	Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Inheritance" is excellent, & perhaps, Miss Ferrier's best - at least, it has left the best taste in my mouth: bu...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Susan Ferrier	Inheritance, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think I said in one of myy recent scrawls all I had to say concerning Mr Macauley's Review: every part of which I l...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Thomas Babington Macaulay	[Review of Madame d'Arblay's "Diary and Letters" in the "Edinburgh Review"]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'read Lady Vavasour's "Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau". - It is only one ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Anne, Lady Vavasour	My Last Tour and First Work; or, a Visit to the Baths of Wildbad and Rippoldsau	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read Lady Vavasour's "Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau". - It is only one ...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Frederick Shoberl	Frederick the Great, His Court and Times	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Camp...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Frederick Shoberl	Frederick the Great, His Court and Times	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Camp...	Sarah Harriet Burney	W.B. Stevenson	Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twety Years' Residence in South America	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Camp...	Sarah Harriet Burney	John Barrow	Life of Richard Earl Howe, K.G., Admiral of the Fleet, and General of Marines	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Disraeli's, Tulloch's and Greyfriars' addresses were all three excellent; Disraeli's brilliant.'	Robert Louis Stevenson		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Piano again disentangled; and some hope, not for it only, but for the tale. I have read it to my mother, who thought ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown "Tale"	Manuscript: Unknown, Seems to refer to one of a set of stories that RLS had at various stages of planning and completion, see Letter 329.
	1850-1899	'Mahaffy's book of Travels in Greece will soon be out. I have been correcting his proofs and like it immensely.'	Oscar Wilde	John Pentland Mahaffy	Rambles and Studies in Greece	Manuscript: Codex, publisher's proofs
	1850-1899	'I am deep in a review of Symonds's last book whenever I can get time.'	Oscar Wilde	John Addington Symonds	Studies of the Greek Poets	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I see the Nineteenth Century has a full list each month of its articles and contributors, which is put in the windows...	Oscar Wilde		Nineteenth Century	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and...	Oscar Wilde	Euripides	Hercules Furens	Print: BookUnknown
	1850-1899	'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and...	Oscar Wilde	Euripides	Phoenissae	Print: BookUnknown
	1850-1899	'He discussed books with me and gave me my first volume of poetry, Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold, marking his favou...	Oscar Wilde	Matthew Arnold	Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[?] I could not [?] pay the postage for the book. [?] The book, you will receive shortly. Do not run away with the i...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Baudelaire	Petits Poemes en Prose	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[?] it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book[Baudelaire's "Petits Poemes en Prose"]' (see RED ID18015)	Robert Louis Stevenson	Katharine de Mattos	unknown	Manuscript: Sheet, Referred to here by RLS as "that paper of yours".
	1850-1899	'I have found what should interest you dear. A paper in which I had sketched out my life, before I knew you. Here is t...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	Desiderata	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	27 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional p...	Desmond MacCarthy	William Makepeace Thackeray	Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	1 May 1918: 'On Sunday [28 April] Desmond came to dinner [...] Late at night he took to reading Joyce's ms. aloud, &...	Desmond MacCarthy	James Joyce	Ulysses	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Is not this verse pretty? Thou wast that all [sic] to me, love, For which my soul did pine -- A green isle i...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edgar Allan Poe	To One in Paradise (1834)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windo...	Thomas Carlyle		Examiner (Newspaper Chat section)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - sh...	Thomas Carlyle		The Scotman	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I have made myself so ill with a story of Poe?s − ?King Pest?, by name. I did not sleep last night and I have s...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edgar Allan Poe	King Pest: A Tale Containing An Allegory.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As soon as I have done, I shall begin my ?Pastoral Drama? business; I have so many nice things to say about "Midsumm...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Shakespeare	A Midsummer Night's Dream.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Colvin?s article on B.C. was so much better than I had expected; he had the courage (which I lacked) to find fault; i...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	Review of Basil Champneys' book A Quiet Corner of England.	Unknown
	1900-1945	6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly...	Sydney Waterlow	Sydney Waterlow	autobiographical essay	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly...	Vanessa Bell	Vanessa Bell	autobiographical essay	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Did you get the two Examiners I sent you? The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was m...	Thomas Carlyle		Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am daily expecting a letter from you on the subject of the Life of Schiller. I have got a copy of his Works beside...	Thomas Carlyle	Friedrich Schiller	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Appre...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	Various unspecified books concerning John Knox.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or Wanderjahre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This is E. A. Poe: Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edgar Allan Poe	To my Mother.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mister Cairlil it appears has read Sandford and Merton: he may lend it to the rest if he sees good.'	James Carlyle	Thomas Day	The History of Sandford and Merton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execut...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Meister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume)	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sull...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhomme	unknown poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The circulating record of the Cardigan Book Society suggests that this reader read the work, as the "Remarks" section ...	Mrs Miles		Temple Bar	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	12 September 1921: '[James Strachey] is the easiest & gayest of companions. Here he leapt onto my bed, directly I left...	James Strachey	Jane Harrison	Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
	1900-1945	Friday 23 June 1922: 'Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beaut...	Thomas Stearns Eliot	Thomas Stearns Eliot	The Waste Land	Unknown
	1900-1945	Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great p...	Thomas Hardy	Virginia Woolf	The Common Reader	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading pers...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	[verbal sketches of well known people]	Manuscript: MS book
	1800-1849	'The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite En...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia	MEMOIRS OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Voltaire	Candide	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts'	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales		[papers and correspondence]	Manuscript: Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc.
	1800-1849	'Talking of books, we have lately had a literary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries must ...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson	Print: Book, Unknown
	1800-1849	'I also transmit Octavian, and a volume of poems written by a friend of mine. He is, poor fellow! in the last stage of...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe			Print: Book, Unknown
	1800-1849	'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the *****...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	Alexander Peden		Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the *****...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	Donald Cargill		Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the *****...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe		Song of Solomon	Manuscript: Unknown, verse translation by Barbara Macky
	1800-1849	'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	Anna Seward	Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	Sydney Owenson	Missionary, The: An Indian Tale	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	Walter Scott	Vision of Don Roderick , The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	John Ford	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	John Ford	Broken Heart, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	Nathaniel Lee		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	James Somerville Somerville	Memorie of the Somervilles being a history of the baronial House of Somerville	Manuscript: MS book
	1800-1849	'So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who ...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield		Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'When Miss Porter's Don Sebastian came out, I expected to find the Margravine, Keppel Craven, (with whom the fair auth...	Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe	Anna Maria Porter	Don Sebastian Or The House Of Braganza	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Before we turned in Raymond, at Hugh's suggestion, read aloud Norton's 1924 despatch, in which he summoned up the pos...	(Charles) Raymond Greene	Edward Felix Norton	despatch	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Do you know Soulary and Sully-Prudhomme? Such birds, both of them: Soulary a really consummate artist, More akin to R...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Soulary	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I am glad to hear you are giving Macaulay a turn. I believe, though it sounds rude and foolish, nothing will do you m...	Sidney Colvin	Thomas Babington Macaulay	unknown	Print: Book, Articles in the Edinburgh Review?
	1900-1945	'Vanessa [Bell] wrote [to her sister Virginia Woolf] from Charleston (n.d., Berg [Collection]): "I have been for the l...	Vanessa Bell	Virginia Woolf	The Waves	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,...	Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson	Virginia Woolf	The Waves	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,...	Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson	Virginia Woolf	The Waves	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Princess Charlotte	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me ...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein	Petits Romans	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books'	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales			Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor ...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte'	Unknown
	1800-1849	'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Frances Burney, Madame d'Arblay	Wanderer, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ...	Princess Caroline Princess of Wales	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]...	Miss [-]	John Wilson	Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]...	Miss [-]	John Gibson Lockhart	Adam Blair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]...	Miss [-]	John Gibson Lockhart	Valerius	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Sir [-]] observed that he was reperusing Miss Seward's Letters, and said, what an odd fancy it was to bequeath them ...	Sir [-]	Anna Seward	Letters	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren ...	Charles B.M. Warren	Michel Eyquem (de) Montaigne	Essays	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a...	Charles B.M. Warren	unknown	[Physiology textbook]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	[unknown verses]	Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook.
	1850-1899	'Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..'	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Sand	Mademoiselle Merquem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and th...	Susan Ferrier	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Corsair, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever...	Susan Ferrier	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t...	Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales	Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis	Mademoiselle de La Fayette : ou le siecle de Louis XIII	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t...	Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales	Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis	Les voeux temeraires : ou L' enthousiasme	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bod...	Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,...	Miss V[-]	Giovanni Battista Guarini	Il Pastor Fido	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,...	Miss V[-]	Homer	Odyssey and Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,...	Miss V[-]	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,...	Miss V[-]	Virgil	Eclogues	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You bid me tell you what I read; and, in obedience to your commands, I confess myself to be at present under a course...	Miss V[-]		[books about Roman /ancient history]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When my day's task is at an end, I keep my nightly vigils with Young, whose Night Thoughts I do think, next to Milton...	Miss V[-]	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am reading on Sundays "Morehead's Discourses on the Principle of Religious Belief", which are greatly admired, thou...	Miss V[-]	Robert Morehead	A Series Of Discourses On The Principles of Religious Belief	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'to return to "Pastor Fido", with whom I have not yet finished, - I must tell you, that though I (what a great authori...	Miss V[-]	Giovanni Battista Guarino	Il Pastor Fido	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end ...	Susan Ferrier	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end ...	Susan Ferrier	Frances Jacson	Rhoda	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I took a great pleasure in the "Antiquary", till I learnt who was the author. It is universally believed that it was ...	Mrs [-]	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Paul's Letters? Partial as I am to the author, I confess I was disappointed. I believe they are very ju...	Mrs [-]		[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been perusing your minstrelsy very diligently for a while past, and it being the first book I ever perused whi...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The	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
	1800-1849	'I had a present of a very elegant copy of the "Lay" lately from a gentleman in Edin. to whom I was ashamed to confess...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Lay of the Last Minstrel, The	Print: Book, Unknown
	1850-1899	'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first ...	Francis Younghusband	unknown	unknown	Print: Book, manuscripts also mentioned
	1850-1899	'I had an opportunity once of reading, side by side,the despatches of the Chinese commander (published in the "Peking ...	Francis Younghusband		Peking Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently movi...	Francis Younghusband	unknown	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I also gratefully acknowledge receipt of the "Daily Telegraph." The Liberal gov was defeated on the budget vote a day...	Joseph Conrad		newspaper (Daily Telegraph)	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'The second number of the "Standard" came to hand yesterday via Singapore.'	Joseph Conrad		newspaper (London Evening Standard)	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	''I have finished "Yaga" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.'	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	La Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoules	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'	Joseph Conrad	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I threw myself (in a manner of speaking) on "Popes et popadias" with eagerness and high hopes. From the first lines m...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Popes et popadias (published in book form as Les Filles du Pope)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I am charmed with "Joujou". It is altogether and delightfully shocking. Where the devil did you find it? Pardon the n...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Joujou	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Yesterday evening I escaped from the ship for the pilgrimage to the station. I have my parcel No.4000 and something....	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Le Mariage du fils Grandsire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am reading "Le fils Grandsire" with delight. It is charming and characteristic: it is alive. I shall finish the b...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Le Mariage du fils Grandsire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I finished the book [Le Mariage du fils Grandsire] a while ago; then I went over several passages while waiting the ...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Le Mariage du fils Grandsire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	''I reread "Yaga" only the other day. It gave me intense pleasure. I read slowly and mingled my dreams with these page...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Yaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenes	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not clear whether this was being read in the book version or that published in the Revue des Deux Monde
	1900-1945	Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoni...	Thomas Stearns Eliot	George Barker	poems	Unknown
	1850-1899	'It [a child relative?s speculations about the nature of fairies] was a good deal in the vein of Herbert Spencer?s des...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Herbert Spenser	Principles of Biology	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am reading "The Village on the Cliff", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up liter...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Anne Isabella Thackeray	The Village on the Cliff. A Novel.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been working all the morning at my second ?John Knox? proof, and got it pretty right, I fancy.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Knox and the Controversy about Female Rule	Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.
	1850-1899	'I have also got ?An Autumn Effect? in proof: I shall send it to you to read, I think.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	An Autumn Effect.	Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.
	1850-1899	'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me....	Joseph Conrad	Guy de Maupassant	unknown	Print: Book, see additional comments
	1850-1899	'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me....	Joseph Conrad	Anatole France	Le Lys Rouge	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have just reread "Le fils Grandsire", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every singl...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Le Mariage du fils Grandsire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied "Pierre et Jean" - thought, method and all...	Joseph Conrad	Guy de Maupassant	Pierre et Jean	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Now I only want to say that "An Imagined World " charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.'	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	An Imagined World	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Scottish dailies have begun to review my "FollY" ["Almayer's Folly"]. brief,journalistic, but full pf praise! Abo...	Joseph Conrad		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresi...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells	The Wonderful Visit	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresi...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells	The Time Machine	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresi...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells	The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading aga...	Joseph Conrad	George Lewis (Louis) Becke	By Reef and Palm	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' I have read "The First Fleet Family"with interest tempered by disappointment.' Thereafter follow two pages of large...	Joseph Conrad	George Lewis (Louis) Becke (and Walter Jeffrey)	A First Fleet Family	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I had this morning a charming surprise in the shape of the "Spoils of Poynton" sent me by H. James with a very charac...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	The Spoils of Poynton	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of th...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	[Notices on Titian and Daniel Maclise]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I've just finished reading "Lisa of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is a...	Joseph Conrad	W.Someret Maugham	Liza of Lambeth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I delayed sending you my acknowledgement for the September issue[of Blackwood's Magazine] [...]The appreciation of Mr...	Joseph Conrad		Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'What do you think of the "Gadfly"? I wrote what I thought to P.[presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined ...	Joseph Conrad	E.(Ethel) L.(Lilian) Voynich	The Gadfly	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Thanks for the copy of the November number [of Blackwood;'s Magazine][...] I turned to "Tennyson" with eagerness.'	Joseph Conrad		Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! The...	Joseph Conrad	Humphry James	Paddy's Woman and Other Storiesries	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet. I'm damned if he ain't! T...	Joseph Conrad	Robert Bridges	Shorter Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the "Badge" It won't hurt you --or only very little. Crane-ibn-Crane el Yankee is all right. The man sees the ou...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Crane	The Red Badge of Courage	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a ...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Crane	A Man and Some Others	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a ...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Crane	The Open Boat	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	'Glenfinlas; Or, Lord Ronald's Coronach'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Marmion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	'To Henry Erskine, Esq'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read several English reviews of my books at great length which are favourable in the extreme'.	James Hogg		[reviews of The Mountain Bard and The Shepherd's Guide]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	[a long anecdote about how Hogg found his correspondent Janet Stuart's book in an Edinburgh bookshop and had to pay 7/...	James Hogg	Janet Stuart	'Ode to Dr Thomas Percy'
	1800-1849	'Kehama has not got justice take a bards word who never flatters he will live for ever'.	James Hogg	Robert Southey	Curse of Kehama, The	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'[italics] The Bridal [end italics] of Triermain is published. It is quite a romance of a lady that lay enchanted 500 ...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Bridal of Triermain, The	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'A gentleman who deems himself libelled at in the Wake has sent a long poem to Edin. to be printed [italics] in quarto...	James Hogg	John Morrison	Hoggiad, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'And now I have taken up an old story, begun years ago; and I have now rewritten all I had written of it then and mean...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	A Country Dance	Manuscript: Earlier draft of one of his stories.
	1850-1899	'I send back the MS tonight.The chapters are all as they should be. The last line excellent. Good luck to the book.'	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Jocelyn	Manuscript: Unknown, probably a typed MS
	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
	1800-1849	'I recieved yours accompanying the beautifull complimentary verses, which are judged by the small circle of my friends...	James Hogg	Bernard Barton	'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of The Queen's Wake. By A Gentleman of Suffolk'	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I think the stanzas greatly improved and they are in the press as an introduction to the second edition of the [itali...	James Hogg	Bernard Barton	'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of The Queen's Wake. By A Gentleman of Suffolk'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeb...	James Hogg		Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeb...	James Hogg		Scotish Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeb...	James Hogg		Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In the last No of the Scottish Review there is a very long and exquisite review of the [italics] Wake [end italics]. ...	James Hogg		Scotish Review [sic]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn...	James Hogg	William Roscoe	[pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe'	Manuscript: presumably in MS
	1800-1849	'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	[pre-publication comments and marginal notes on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe'	Manuscript: presumably in MS
	1800-1849	'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn...	James Hogg	Walter Paterson	Legend of Iona, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s...	Sir Ronald Storrs	Dante Alighieri	Divine Comedy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s...	Sir Ronald Storrs	Homer	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s...	Sir Ronald Storrs	William Shakespeare	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many piec...	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[juvenile poems]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'By the by have you read my friend Mr Crag's [sic] "Hunting of Badlewe" published by Colburne. If you have not I wish ...	James Hogg	J. H. Craig	Hunting of Badlewe, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray have you seen a poem that was published last year entitled "Anster Fair" I am vexed that it has never been notic...	James Hogg	William Tenant	Anster Fair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original producti...	James Hogg	William Tenant	Anster Fair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original producti...	James Hogg	J.H. Craig	Hunting of Badlewe, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There are two poems that I desire you at all events to read the one entitled "Anster Fair" the most original producti...	James Hogg	Anne Grant	Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A Poem	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The attact [sic] upon you in the last Edin. Review was too palpably malevolent to produce any bad effect on the publi...	James Hogg		[review in the Edinburgh Review of Southey's 'Carmen Triumphale for the Commencement of the Year 1814']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Badliewe [sic] has not yet made great noise but has excited a deep interest in a limited sphere. It is reviewed in bo...	James Hogg		[review in the Scottish Review of JH Craig's The Hunting of Badlewe]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'And the merit of the book ["Jocelyn"], (apart from distinguished literary expression) is just in this: You have given...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Jocelyn	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Bridal of Triermain, The	Print: Book, 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	'[Arthur] Symons reviewing "Trionfo della Morte" (trans:) [Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel] in the last "Sat. Rev" we...	Joseph Conrad	Arthur Symons	[article in Saturday Review]	Print: Serial / periodical
	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	[in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admirat...	Joseph Conrad	Israel Zangwill	Premier and the Painter	Print: Book
	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	'Mr Clifford's book reached me only yesterday--the 15th [...] The book is interesting, has insight and of course unriv...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Clifford	Studies in Brown Humanity	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	'Blackwood's Magazine for this month has an appreciation of F.M. Kelly's [James Fitzmaurice Kelly 1857-1923] edition o...	Joseph Conrad		Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	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
	1800-1849	'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ...	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lara	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ...	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Corsair, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ...	James Hogg	Samuel Rogers	Jacqueline	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wilson who is one of the most noble fellows in existence swore terribly about the [italics] fishing [end italics] and...	James Hogg	Robert Southey	Roderick, The Last of the Goths	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Roderick is safe depend upon it I venture my judgement on it very publickly that it is the first epic poem of the age...	James Hogg	Robert Southey	Roderick, The Last of the Goths	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve...	James Hogg	Robert Southey	Roderick, The Last of the Goths	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve...	James Hogg	William Wordsworth	Excursion, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the a...	James Hogg	Robert Southey	Roderick, The Last of the Goths	Print: Book, Hogg had also read the poem in MS
	1800-1849	'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the a...	Francis Jeffrey	Robert Southey	Roderick, The Last of the Goths	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his...	Francis Jeffrey	William Wordsworth	Excursion, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his...	James Hogg	Francis Jeffrey	[review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
		'I have read "Ronald" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem S...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles, The	Print: Book
		'I confess I was pleased with ['The Lord of the Isles'] save the plot and augured good of it but I have heard very dif...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles, The	Print: Book
		'A friend brought me in the last "Quarterly" which I looked at tho' but slightly as yet not being able. There are by f...	James Hogg		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
		'I had a note from Mr Jeffery [sic] on the very day after [Hogg's The Pilgrims of the Sun] was published who is not go...	Francis Jeffrey	James Hogg	Pilgrims of the Sun, The	Print: Book
		'I was much pleased with your last Review upon the whole which was the only No. I ever read; it is a much more amusing...	James Hogg		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
		'"The Lord of the isles" is in [the Edinburgh Review] and seems meant as a favourable review, in my opinion however it...	James Hogg		Edinburgh Review [review of Scott's 'Lord of the Isles']	Print: Serial / periodical
		' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first ra...	James Hogg		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
		' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first ra...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Guy Mannering	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] las...	Desmond MacCarthy	Desmond MacCarthy	lecture on Sir Leslie Stephen	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I hear nothing of the literary world very interesting except that people are commending some of Lord Byron's melodies...	James Hogg	William Wordsworth	Poems by William Wordsworth, including Lyrical Ballads	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must...	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Hebrew Melodies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must...	James Hogg	Thomas Moore	Irish Melodies	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o...	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Siege of Corinth, The'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o...	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Parisina'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touch...	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Parisina' and 'The Siege of Corinth'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in li...	James Hogg	John Wilson	City of the Plague, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold ...	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto III)	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold ...	James Hogg		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have had a proof of a review of my dramas by Gillies - the analysis is good but the whole of the part that refers t...	James Hogg	Gillies	[review of Hogg's 'Dramatic Tales']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excelle...	James Hogg	James Hogg	'Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excelle...	James Hogg		'Letter to the Lord High Constable, from Mr Dinmont'	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I cannot tell you how much I think of the Magazine it is so interesting and spirited throughout it is safe'	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh ...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anonymous poem and articles	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh ...	James Hogg	William Laidlaw	'Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Some of my friends think that the introduction and moral of the "Frogs" are too highly wrought and polished for the s...	James Hogg	John Aitken	Frogs, The: A Fable
	1800-1849	'I have got the fourth canto to day - It is a glorious morsel!'	James Hogg	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto IV)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'There are some very able papers in the last Magazine as usual but I do not think the selection likely to add much to ...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, including the poetic 'Notices'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'My poet writes good stuff; it is slack still and unequal, but I think some of it capital.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	unknown	Unknown
	1800-1849	'This last is not near so interesting as the former, there is too much of pompous fine writing in it at least attempts...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite di...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite di...	James Hogg		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I find your Mag. a great favourite in Dumfriesshire especially with the ladies. Macculloch had been trying to stir up...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear frie...	James Hogg	anon	Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anon. political article entitled 'The Warder'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear frie...	James Hogg	Allan Cunningham	'Recollections No. I. - The Cameronians' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I received your splendid work the other day; and have placed it in my little library, having only looked over the pla...	James Hogg	Robert Surtees	History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si...	James Hogg	Charles Howard	Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si...	James Hogg		[unidentified sonnet]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its si...	James Hogg	Charles Howard	Historical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard Family	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'.	James Hogg	Thomas McCrie	Life of Andrew Melville, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'.	James Hogg	Thomas McCrie	Life of John Knox, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian T...	James Hogg	Allan Cunningham	'Recollections of Mark Macrabin the Cameronian'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I inclose you a very curious letter from a cousin german of my own to his son who still remains in this country. It h...	James Hogg	James Laidlaw	[Letter from America to his son]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'When ever I saw your Cameronians I knew the hand but I do not like your last ideal picture half so well as the one yo...	James Hogg	Allan Cunningham	'Recollections of Mark Macrabin, the Cameronian'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to ...	James Hogg	John Wilson	[ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to ...	James Hogg		[ essay on H.H. Milman's painting 'The Fall of Jerusalem']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto...	James Hogg	John Gibson Lockhart	'Testimonium, A Prize Poem by James Scott, Esq.'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto...	James Hogg	John Gibson Lockhart	'Dietrich Knickernocker's History of New York'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto...	James Hogg	Allan Cunningham	'Cameronian Song'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid...	James Hogg	Thomas Gillespie	[various pieces in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1820]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid...	James Hogg	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	'Letter to Peter Morris, M.D. On the Sorts and Uses of Literary Praise'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Colerid...	James Hogg	John Galt	'The Ayrshire Legatees; Or, The Correspondenceof the Pringle Family. No IV'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have had within these few days a curious MS. sent to me by an English gentleman a Dr T. Brown who intreats me to ta...	James Hogg	T. Brown	Art of reading and conversing on the works of the living poets of Great Britain	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have read the "Parish Register" with great attention. It is rather lifeless and wants character and point but I lik...	James Hogg	John Galt	Annals of the Parish	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street.We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think w...	Joseph Conrad	Neil Munro	The Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling Stories	Print: Book
	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	'I have a poet in stock here, a poor ass in the infirmary with one leg off and the other more than shaky − scrof...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	[poems]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'PS I've read "Two Magics" Henry James's last. The first story ["The Turn of the Screw"] is all there. He extracts an ...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	The Two Magics	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have read "Shifting of the Fire". I have read it several times looking for your "inside" in that book; the first im...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox (Hermann Ford) Ford (Hueffer)	Shifting of the Fire	Print: Book
	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	'Thanks ever so much for "The Invisible Man". I shall keep him a few more days longer. Frankly--it is uncommonly fine...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells	The Invisible Man	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Do you think Stephen will be home for Christmas? His story in B. ["Blackwood's Magazine"] is magnificent. It is the v...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Crane	The Price of the Harness	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I had a treat in the shape of a number of the "Singapore Free Press" 2 and a half columns about "Mr Conrad at home an...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Clifford	Article in Singapore Free Press	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I likewise received the Tales you sent me before from your friend in Edinburgh, and should have acknowledged them lon...	James Hogg		[traditional tales]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Have received the Mag. and like it exceedingly. The best for a good while'	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The trans: of the T.M.["The Time Machine"] is really first rate. What an admirably good thing it is, this T.M. How tr...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells	The Time Machine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg...	James Hogg	David Laing	[review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Edinburgh Monthly Review]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read...	James Hogg		[MS volume of Jacbite material]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I received the Mag. with the inclosures last night; a great store of amusement The former I have not got time to read...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Well sir you have now put the crown on all the injurious abuse that I have suffered from you for these three years an...	James Hogg		[attack on Hogg's 'Memoir' in the new edition of 'The Mountain Bard' -Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The article which I inclose "The History of Tom M. Fribble" is not mine. It is written by a Mr William Clerk a teache...	James Hogg	William Clerk	'True, but Stupid History of Tom MacFribble, The'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a ...	James Hogg	John Wilson	Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a ...	James Hogg	John Galt	Provost	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you...	James Hogg	David Laing	[review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'The Mountain Bard'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellan...	James Hogg	John Wilson	[various items in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	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
	1800-1849	'I am delighted more than I can tell you with Margt Lindsay. It is a charming work pure, elegant, and perfect; all sav...	James Hogg	John Wilson	Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read Reginald with great care and with great interest. It is a masterly work upon the whole, particularly in s...	James Hogg	John Gibson Lockhart	Reginald Dalton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This last is indeed a [italics] redeeming Number [end italics] even if the fallings off had been greater Nothing like...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; 'Noctes Ambrosianae. no. IX'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength...	James Hogg	James Hook	Percy Mallory	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength...	James Hogg	William Maginn	'Letters of Timothy Tickler Esq. to Eminent Literary Characters. No XII. To Christopher North, Esq.' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength...	James Hogg	John Wilson	'Wrestliana', in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you k...	James Hogg	Eliza Logan	St Johnstoun; or, John, Earl of Gowrie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I would like well to know who is the author of ST JOHNSTON. It is rather better than ordinary. Pray does any of you k...	James Hogg		Northern Whig, The	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as ...	James Hogg	Susan Edmonstone Ferrier	Marriage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as ...	James Hogg	Susan Edmonstone Ferrier	Inheritance, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have looked over the articles Hogg v. Campbell and Noctes and am not only not angry but highly satisfied and please...	James Hogg		[articles concerning Hogg's poem 'Queen Hynde' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I did not think very highly of last Maga This appears more spirited the former part of the NOCTES is very good my par...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Bl...	James Hogg		[article on 'Agriculture' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Bl...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	[letters in ] Edinburgh Weekly Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articl...	James Hogg	John Wilson	'Hints for the Holidays. No. III' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work...	James Hogg	R.P. Gillies	German Stories, selected from the works of Hoffmann, De la Motte-0Fouque, Pichler, Kruse, and others	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work...	James Hogg	Christian Isobel Johnstone	Elizabeth de Bruce	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have recieved your's with the £5 inclosed and also the two Magas the last article of each only I have read and dre...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect...	James Hogg	Thomas Hamilton	Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have recieved Maga with the inclosures safe to night but have only as yet got her looked over. For one thing I perc...	James Hogg	More	'Hymn to Hesperus'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	''I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excelle...	Joseph Conrad		Blackwood's Magazine	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	'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The...	Joseph Conrad	William Beckford	Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek	Print: Book, Unknown
	1850-1899	'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The...	Joseph Conrad	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The...	Joseph Conrad	Abu Zaid (and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt)	The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Hughes insists on the Confessions of a Sinner being republished with my name as she say it is the best story of t...	Mrs Hughes	James Hogg	Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I hate these things of de Q-s in Maga'	James Hogg	Thomas De Quincy	[articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marv...	James Hogg	James Hogg	Shepherd's Calendar, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am exceedingly disgusted with the last beastly Noctes and as it is manifest that the old business of mockery and re...	James Hogg		'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. XLII' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'There is a new work lately come to my hand "The Jacobite Minstrelsy of Scotland" which is the most bare-faced plagiar...	James Hogg		Jacobite Minstrelsy, with notes Illustrative of the Text, and Containing Historical Details in Relation to the House of Stuart from 1640-1784	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I enclose you two poems one by Mr Riddell which I have copied and corrected a sublime and beautiful thing, its only f...	James Hogg	Henry Scott Ridell	'Ode to the Harp of Zion'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing n...	James Hogg	Thomas Pringle [ed.]	Friendship's Offering	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is ini...	James Hogg	John Wilson	'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have not yet had time to read through the Twin Sisters but there is a certain stile apparent in the Fall of Nineveh...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have received the foregoing little poem from a townsman of your's which I think so good I transmit it to you for in...	James Hogg	Mr Brooks	[poem]	Manuscript: Sheet
	1800-1849	'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous ...	James Hogg		['Literary Gossip' articles in Newcastle Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous ...	James Hogg		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous ...	James Hogg		[possibly] the 'Edinburgh Advertiser'	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight y...	James Hogg	Caroline Bowles Southey	'La petite Madelaine'	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight y...	James Hogg	John Wilson	'Unimore. A Dream of the Highlands'	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my kno...	James Hogg	Robert Southey	[possibly] 'A true Ballad of St Antidius, the Pope, and the Devil'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have recieved Maga to night and looked it over but think very poorly of it You need not send any more of them as I ...	James Hogg		Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Who the devil was it who wrote the last article of the Quarterly? He is a lad of some spirit and I must have a half m...	James Hogg		Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and del...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	private letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845: 'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Alphonse de Lamartine	La Chute d'un ange	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845: 'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Alphonse de Lamartine	Jocelyn	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Father is rehearsing Drake's Drum for Wednesday'.	Leslie Stephen	Henry John Newbolt	Drake's Drum	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'There is only one very good thing in the world: the acting of Sarah Bernhardt. I beg your pardon, there is another: P...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Pierre Veron	Le Pantheon de Poche	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been reading John Racine: it is very standard − damnd[sic] standard, I beg your pardon.[…] I like John...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Jean Racine	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does n...	Samuel Bamford	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Oenone	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Gaskell tells John Forster of Samuel Bamford who knows many of Tennyson's poems by heart and recites them, but does n...	Samuel Bamford	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	'Sleeping Beauty, The'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Gaskell describes handing over the gift of a signed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford] 'I said, 'Look at the...	Samuel Bamford	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	'Sleeping Beauty, The'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I...	Walter Savage Landor	William Gaskell	Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect	Unknown
	1850-1899	'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to...	Miss Patterson	Henry Morley	'Brother Mieth and his Brothers'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845: 'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter...	Mary Russell Mitford	Honore de Balzac	Modeste Mignon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart': 'To me even "R.T...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	The Real Thing	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart': 'To me even "R.T...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	The Pupil	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
	1850-1899	'In reading the last number of the "Mercure [de France]" I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you....	Joseph Conrad		Mercure de France	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I received the book only three hours ago--and it is only too short! I've read it twice.[...]. Many thanks. I've lived...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Clifford	In a Corner of Asia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth seeks your acquaintance & society [because] he has a novel, - partly read to Mrs Nicholls the...	Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth	Sir J.P.K. Shuttleworth	Scarsworth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Referring to the reporting of the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): 'I can't say I shared in the hyst...	Joseph Conrad		newspapers	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I think Zack [Gwendolen Keats] may be congratulated on the novel. It is an advance on the short stories--a promising ...	Joseph Conrad		Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I prefer to say nothing critical about John Buchan's story'. Hence follow more than twenty lines of quite strong and...	Joseph Conrad	John Buchan	The Far Islands	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully goo...	Joseph Conrad	Ivan Turgenev	A Desperate Character and Other Stories	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As to your sketch (for it is that) in last "B'wood", it has pleased me immensely. The simplicity of treatment is effe...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Clifford	Father Rouellet	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a let...	Charles Bosanquet	[n/a]	Atlantic Monthly	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I send you my affectionate thanks for the book ["The Plattner Story and Others"] and for the terms of the inscription...	Joseph Conrad	H.G. Wells	The Plattner Story and Others	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
	1850-1899	In a long letter to Edward Garnett, in which Conrad outlines some aspects of his family history, he writes that his fa...	Joseph Conrad	William Shakespeare	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, One page of his father's translation into Polish.
	1850-1899	'It was only a month before or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had read to him aloud from beginning to end, ...	Joseph Conrad	Victor Hugo	Les Travailleurs de la Mer	Manuscript: Codex, Sheet, Conrad's father's translation into Polish.
	1850-1899	'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Jules Michelet	French Revolution	Print: Book
	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	'Have you seen the last vol of Mrs Garnett's Turgeniev [sic]? There's a story there. "Three Portraits" really fine. Al...	Joseph Conrad	Ivan Turgenev	The Jew and Other Stories	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't car...	Thomas De Quincey	James T. Fields	"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I add a few words above all to talk to you about the book. I've read the novel for the third time, faithfully--from o...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Pour Noemi	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the vol. Chaffery is immense. The thing as a whole remarkable in its effects.' Hence follow five more li...	Joseph Conrad	H.G. Wells	Love and Mr Lewisham	Print: Book
	1900-1945	''The MS heralded by your letter arrived tbhis morning. I've had the time to read it . it is wonderfully well done: te...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Cosmopolitan (eventually known as A Knight)	Manuscript: Unknown
	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	'Many thanks for the "Cinque Ports" which came today as a most agreeable surprise. In the matter of outward characteri...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	The Cinque Ports	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I ha...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Villa Rubein	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I've read " Petersburg Tales". Phew! That is something! [...] That work is genuine, undeniable,constructed and inhabi...	Joseph Conrad	Olive Garnett	The Petersburg Tales	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I've read "The Silence" once but shall keep it till tomorrow. Certain remarks I keep for a note which I will send you...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Silence	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for your letter. The enclosure was most intetesting. It reveals an original personality and to me attract...	Joseph Conrad	Frank Challice Constable	(letter)	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I run on with leaden feet and do not seem to advance an inch. I see no one, read nothing but "Maga" which is a solace...	Joseph Conrad		Blackwood's Magazine.	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I have never had the pleasure of meeting him [Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy] ; but I've read and admired his boo...	Joseph Conrad	William Robert Kennedy	Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Fifty Years in the Navy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As to "Charlotte" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath ...	Joseph Conrad	David Meldrum	The Conquest of Charlotte	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Nevertheless I've read the book ["A Man of Devon"] twice'. Hence follows a page of constructive criticism.	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	A Man of Devon	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
	1850-1899	'... some verses which I wrote turn out, on inspection, to be not quite equal to "Kubla Khan".'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Kubla Khan	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'However I forgave him, and read him that bit of Walt Whitman about the widowed bird, which I thank God affected him q...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walt Whitman	Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The lecture is splendid. It is striking in its expression [...]and in its eloquence too [...].I call it scientific el...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells	The Discovery of the Future	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It's wonderful how well sustained is the excellence of "Charlotte".I've just read the last instalment [...]'	Joseph Conrad	David Meldrum	(An episode of ) The Conquest of Charlotte	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The reading of the "Man from the North" has inspired me with the greatest respect for your artistic conscience. I am ...	Joseph Conrad	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	A Man from the North.	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As to "Bushwhacking" you know I prize it above anything that may be written in acknowledgement of a presentation volu...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Clifford	Bushwhacking and Other Sketches	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Your paper in the "Academy" mutilated as it is by the mystic mind illustrates my meaning.'	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	The Making of Modern Verse	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the "Rossetti". My opinion of it you know but I am reading it carefully. It is good.'	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	Rossetti	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Remenber me faithfully to your wife whose translation of "Karenina" is splendid.Of the thing itself I think but littl...	Joseph Conrad	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I'm sorry I kept the MS so long.[...] However I've read it more than once; the difficulty was to say something useful...	Joseph Conrad	Elizabeth Martindale	Margaret Hever	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual un...	Joseph Conrad	Guy de Maupassant	[Stories]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to r...	Joseph Conrad	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	Anna of the Five Towns	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
	1900-1945	'Excellent, the last number of "Maga".' Conrad then very briefly mentions two stories, one by Neil Munro.	Joseph Conrad	Neil Munro	Children of the Tempest	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then ...	Joseph Conrad	James Fenimore Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then ...	Joseph Conrad	James Fenimore Cooper	The Deerslayer	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then ...	Joseph Conrad	James Fenimore Cooper	The Prairie	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in "Twelfth Night" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Shakespeare	Twelfth Night, Or What You Will.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Miss Jewsbury lay on the floor and read half through the Essays of Elia and called our drawing room "such an ugly roo...	Miss Jewsbury	Charles Lamb	Essays of Elia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The review [in the "Spectator"] is good is it not.The "Speaker" also reviewed me the same week--Whig and Tory. That i...	Joseph Conrad		various newspapers and periodicals	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I know I shall never be wise enough in a tete a tete with a girl who does not read poetry & novels but Adam Smith, Ni...	Miss Thompson	Adam Smith	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In a letter to Charles Boner (28 February 1851), Miss Mitford wrote that she had read L'Ecole des journalistes "in a ...	Mary Russell Mitford	Delphine de Girardin	L'Ecole des journalistes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 March 1845: 'I have the first volume of Victor Hugo's "Odes et Ballad...	Mary Russell Mitford	Victor Hugo	Odes et Ballades (volume 1)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you...	Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland	George Crabbe	Parish Register, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you...	Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland	George Crabbe	Library, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you...	Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland	George Crabbe	Village, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descrip...	Sophia Scott	George Crabbe	Tales in verse	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845: 'Before I have half re[a]d through you...	Walter Savage Landor	Robert Browning	Dramatic Romances and Lyrics	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Look here, you had better get hold of G.C. Lichtenberg’s "Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche": ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850: 'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italic...	Joseph Arnould	Robert Browning	Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Finished reading Mansfield Park, which more than ever convinces me that Jane Austen is trivial, facetious and commonp...	James Lees-Milne	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the ...	Basil Nicholson	Andrew Marvell	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the ...	Basil Nicholson	John Keats	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.'	Susan Glossop	Antonia White	Frost at Midnight	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution with much interest.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Jules Michelet	French Revolution/Histoire de la Revolution francaise	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am nearly done with McCrie's Knox.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas McCrie	Life of John Knox	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Colvin has brought home Woodstock from Nice and we have started reading it aloud, which is a huge institution.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	Woodstock	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's ...	Giles Lytton Strachey	Lytton Strachey	Life of Cardinal Manning	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940: 'I read your article on th...	Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes	Leonard Woolf	article on 'the politician and the intellectual'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Margery Perham, 24 August 1955: 'Did you ever come across [Charles] Temple, who was in the Nigeria...	Charles Temple	Leonard Woolf	Empire and Commerce in Africa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri...	'a Lady of Distinction'	Laetitia Pilkington	Paper	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under an...	Thomas Carlyle	Jane Baillie Welsh	Letter dated 29th January	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order! Thank Alick and my dear Father fo...	Thomas Carlyle		The Courier	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Dar...	James Worsdale	Laetititia Pilkington	[verses on 'Stella']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did n...	Augustus, Lord Fitzroy	Laetitia Pilkington	To The Hon. Colonel Duncombe	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them t...	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Laetitia Pilkington	[Poems]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'There is a Spaniard here (one of the refugees) who from Catholic has become Protestant, a very honest shrewd little f...	Thomas Carlyle		Spanish Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My dear Alick, No piece of news that I have heard for a long time has given me more satisfaction than the intelligenc...	Thomas Carlyle	Alexander Carlyle	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom ...	Thomas Carlyle	Badams	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furnit...	Thomas Carlyle	Badams	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'[Sir Hans Sloane] considered my Letter over, and finding, by the contents, Doctor [italics] Mead [end italics] recomm...	Hans Sloane	Laetitia Pilkington	[Letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Paul Friedrich Richter	Leben Fibels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Paul Friedrich Richter	Herbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitschriften	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. ...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Paul Friedrich Richter	Die Flegeljahre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French),...	Thomas Carlyle	Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine	Raphael	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French),...	Thomas Carlyle	Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine	Rudolph von Werdenberg	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French),...	Thomas Carlyle	Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine	Tinchen oder die Mannerprobe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; ...	Thomas Carlyle	unknown	[German novel]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is many a weary year since I have been so idle or so happy. I have not done two sheets of Werter yet; I read Richt...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Paul Friedrich Richter	unknown	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'My dear Carlyle, I received your letter with the inclosed addressed to Mr Burns, which I had the pleasure of deliveri...	James Johnston	Thomas Carlyle	Letter dated 4 August	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, 2 July 1909: 'Something exciting is coming on [...] The Minister for Foreign Aff...	Sir Edward Grey	E. M. Forster	works	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'How kind, how simple, true and good! Beautifully welcome, in my sombre vacancy here! (Dumfries, Septr, 1868) This Le...	Thomas Carlyle	Jane Baillie Welsh	Letter dated 9 October 1825	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	[LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale c...	James Worsdale	Laetitia Pilkington	To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Jack Pilkington gives an introduction to his now deceased mother's third volume of memoirs, relating how he wrote a p...	Samuel Foote	John Carteret Pilkington	To Samuel Foote, Esq. on seeing his Englishman in Paris	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'When I was about six, she decided that the time had come for me to learn to read. And that was when she made her mist...	Rosemary Sutcliff	unknown	[children's book]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would ...	Rosemary Sutcliff	Hans Christian Andersen	Little Match Girl, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last,...	Rosemary Sutcliff	Grimm	Fairy Tales	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'And then one day I found a book. It was a book called Emily of New Moon, about a little girl whose father died of c...	Rosemary Sutcliff	L.M. Montgomery	Emily of New Moon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I should like, by the way, to hear more about my father's lecture; was it much on the same rails as the Good Words ar...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Stevenson	'British Storms' in Good Words	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'... and then nearly fell asleep over the Fortnightly. Morley is very jolly; so is Marat.'	Robert Louis Stevenson		Fortnightly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Imagine my delight to find a footnote in Capefigs thus conceived ... Immediately after, Capefigues talks of la grande...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Jean Baptise Honore Raymond Capefigue	Histoire de la Reforme, de la Ligue, et du Regne de Henri IV	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I cannot tell how I feel, who can ever? I feel like a person in a novel of George Sand’s; I feel a desire to go out...	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Sand	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My dear Henley, Sketches III line 11. More laughter comes from them than moan. IV As a whole. VII Both quatrain...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits	Print: Probably proof.
	1900-1945	'I was greeted in the mess at breakfast today by the whole table exclaiuming: "Genius" - it appears that someone had r...	soldier	[unknown]	[a review of Ford's work]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it w...	Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen	[unknown]	[book on wild flowers]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Author...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	[n/a]	[press cuttings - subject unknown]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ...	Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen	Clifford Bax	[poems]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ...	Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen	Phyllis Reid	[poems]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ...	Phyllis Reid	Phyllis Reid	[a poem]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'P.'s roving eye fell upon your letter of today, & read the beginning of the sentence about "Poor old Phyllis & her po...	Phyllis Reid	Ford Madox Ford	[letter to Stella Bowen]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Per...	Esther Julia Ford	[unknown]	[first reading]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'behind my back, E.J. is reading H.G.'s [underlined] Outline of History [end underlining] & making riotous comments on...	Esther Julia Ford	Herbert George Wells	Outline of History, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say i...	Esther Julia Ford	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations]	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	[n/a]	Daily Mail, The	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I've had [underlined] one [end underlining] violent set-too with Douglas on the subject of Gertrude Stein. He said he...	Douglas Cole	Getrude Stein	[art criticism]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underl...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Edith Wharton	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The last mail brought me your Dedicatory letter. I am [underlined] so [end underlining] touched & so very very proud....	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	[dedicatory letter to 'The Good Soldier']	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Isabel Paterson	[column in ] New York Herald Tribune Books	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	[unknown article about Ezra Pound]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ernest Hemingway	Sun Also Rises, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Violet Hunt	I Have This to Say	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have inspected all the work the binder has done for you and as far as I can rember it seems to be what you ordered....	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	Thus to Revisit	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so ...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	Last Post, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't bel...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	Last Post, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enou...	Esther Julia Ford	Esther Julia Ford	[a short story]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the 3 chapters - they look entrancing, but I haven't had time to do more than glance at them as I've ...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Ford Madox Ford	[chapters from 'It Was the Nightingale']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Isabel Paterson	[review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York Herald Tribune Book Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P...	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	W.R. Benet	'Uncle Ford'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'.	Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen	Elizabeth Madox Roberts	Time of Man, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I've just received "The Great Trade Route" this morning, and there's a gentleman on the cover who tells me that it is...	Esther Julia Ford	Ford Madox Ford	Great Trade Route, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am loving your book [The March of Literature]: in fact I'm enjoying it even more than Great Trade Route. I do hope ...	Esther Julia Ford	Ford Madox Ford	March of Literature, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Thomas Hardy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Arnold Bennett	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Oscar Wilde	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Samuel Butler	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	George Bernard Shaw	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	David Herbert Lawrence	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Aldous Huxley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...	Sydney Larkin	Katherine Mansfield	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	law books	Print: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law.
	1850-1899	[On blank recto flyleaf at the beginning of the volume:] 'My Dear Brown,/ Here it is, with the mark of a San Francisco...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Penn	Fruits of Solitude	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have finished Nanon...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Sand	Nanon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Kingdom Clifford	The Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a Future State	Print: Serial / periodical, Review article. Probably read in print after publication, but possibly in another earlier form since RLS was acquainted with its author.
	1900-1945	'The River of Cathay is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.'	Joseph Conrad	Ernest Dawson	The River of Cathay	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I ought to have thanked you before but I preferred to read the book first. I've read it twice with casts back here an...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Clifford	A Free Lance of Today	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	'The "Mercure de France" notice is agreeable - and as he [Henry-Durand Davray] reproduces what I have been lately talk...	Joseph Conrad	Henry-Durand Davray	unknown	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The book ("Maison du Peché") has arrived and is now half read. Without going further my verdict is that it is good ...	Joseph Conrad	Marcelle Tinayre	La Maison du Peché	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Hay Athole Macdonald	election speech	Unknown
	1900-1945	'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gis...	Mrs Glasser	[n/a]	[English newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gis...	Mrs Glasser	[n/a]	Die Zeit	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Stevenson	letter (in "Nature")	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious resea...	Hamish	John Wilkes	Essay on Woman	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “S...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a...	Thomas De Quincey	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The House of Seven Gables	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	'He [Edward Garnett] gave me his father's book for you. He handed it to me because I wanted to look at some new storie...	Joseph Conrad	Richard` Garnett	The Twilight of the Gods and Other tales	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occ...	Joseph Conrad	Guy de Maupassant	Stories from De Maupassant [English title]	Manuscript: Proofs
	1800-1849	'Of his poem Waterloo she writes: "These are my honest opinions, just as I should give them to any third person: and ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Field of Waterloo, The	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; adm...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[unknown]	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Ben Jonson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Henry Mackenzie	Man of Feeling, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	George Crabbe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'"Flimsy novel language disgusts" her; and she "perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did you ever read "Emma", a novel of Miss Austen's? I have seen three or four [italics] Harriet Smiths [end italics] ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'You need not be at all afraid that I should think your journal an odd composition. I am so much charmed with it that ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Caroline Dawson	[journal]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in t...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read o...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[unknown]	[history books]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end ita...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Marmion	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end ita...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Lay of the Last Minstrel, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Guy Mannering	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Tales of my Landlord	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...	Mrs Weddell	Walter Scott	Tales of my Landlord	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...	Mrs Weddell	Daniel Defoe	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There is any amount of masterly pages. I have not read all of them as you may imagine. [...] Yes the "virtue" of the ...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells	Mankind in the Making	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'An excellent volume. Last time I saw you , you spoke of it slightlingly-and this only adds to my envy of your astound...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells	Twelve Stories and a Dream	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You must think me a brute. I don't even attempt to palliate an inexcusable delay in thanking you for "Leonora".[...] ...	Joseph Conrad	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	Leonora	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A thousand thanks for the article you devote to me in the "Revue". I read it with lively interest, profound attention...	Joseph Conrad	Kazimierz Waliszewski	Un cas de naturalisation littéraire: Joseph Conrad	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I have to thank you for Morel's pamphlet which reached me from L'pool a few days ago.There can be no doubt that his p...	Joseph Conrad	E.(Edward) D.(Dene) Morel	The Congo Slave State.
	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	'The reading of the "White Bird", apart from the sheer pleasure your work always gives, had a special interest for me ...	Joseph Conrad	J.[James] M.[Matthew] Barrie	The Little White Bird	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It only remains for me to add that I am on page 24 of "Ivan the Terrible"; that is to say that I have been comforted ...	Joseph Conrad	Kazimierz Waliszewski	Ivan le Terrible	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Arrived: A book with a Chinese title of Scandinavian authorship translated by Mrs Reynolds. I am touched and pleased ...	Joseph Conrad	Henri Jean François Borel	Wu Wei:A Phantasy Based on the Philosophy of Lao-Tse	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I met a rum old army doctor, called Lewins, who sent me a paper of his, full of matter that would not be very gratify...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Lewins	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls s...	Joseph Conrad	W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson	The London Sparrow in Kith and Kin: Poems of Animal Life ed. H.S.Salt	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Hudson's "Sparrow" is really first rate and just in the tone I expected. C'est une belle nature, which never falls s...	Joseph Conrad	W.(William) H.(Henry) Hudson	Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[Signature] R.L.H. Stevenson 'You don’t know what H. means, ha? I have been reading Nym; and that’s the humour of...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am still ... doing a pleasanter spell of work over the Waverley novels.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	Waverley novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have read one after another ... The Fortunes of Nigel.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	The Fortunes fo Nigel	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Waverley is so poor and dull.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	Waverley	Print: Book
	1850-1899	#Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Victor Hugo	various romances	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'By the bye, I think I read your Mr Morritt's account of Hampton Court in Herefordshire, one of the oldest baronial se...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Mr Morritt	[account of Hampton Court, Herefordshire]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the fi...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Bride of Lammermoor, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I believe most people would say of the four-and-twenty volumes, what I have known parents of large families do of the...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	[Works]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the fi...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Legend of Montrose, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Thomas Gray	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th...	Sydney Waterlow	E. M. Forster	Maurice	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a...	Louisa, Lady Stuart		Quarterly Review [articles on classics]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[unknown]	Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humboldt]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	John Hookham Frere	Quarterly Review [burlesque poetry]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Plato and tact sounds like Plato and puppy, an incongruous mixture of ancient and modern, such as only suits the lang...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Sydney, Lady Morgan	Woman: or, Ida of Athens	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[unknown]	[description of the Court of Haiti]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...	Louisa Clinton		[description of Court of Haiti]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...	Louisa Clinton	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...	Louisa, Lady Holroyd	[unknown]	[unknown - French? -text featuring travels in America]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[unknown]	[unknown - French? -text featuring travels in america]	Print: Unknown
	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 on...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	[Waverley Novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Anne Racliffe	[Novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Lucy Aikin	Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ...	Mrs Scott	Lucy Aikin	Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ...	Louisa Clinton	Walter Scott	[Waverley Novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'a thousand thanks for [your letter], and for Sir John Stanley's speech, which I like very much, though I own I think ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	John Stanley	[a speech]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'There is a part of Sir John's speech I think quite beautiful, that which describes the sensation of vacancy; and his ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	John Stanley	[a speech]	Unknown
	1800-1849	'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Jeremy Taylor	Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have not read the Edinburgh Magazine you mention, but if it attacks Walter Scott (or whoever it may be) for a desig...	Louisa Clinton	[n/a]	Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The former [apparently a letter from Louisa Clinton, praising LS -or someone else? - extravagantly] discomposed me, t...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Louis 14 certainly never fell into the error Mrs Millamant cautioned her intended husband against in a clever wicked ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	William Congreve	Way of the World, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looki...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	John Galt	Ayrshire Legatees, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looki...	Mrs Scott	Walter Scott	[Waverley Novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read the "Martyr of Antioch"? I read it (aloud) at Ditton, and did not like it much - heavy and dragging, I ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Henry Hart Milman	Martyr of Antioch, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	[law books]	Print: Book, Law books in the plural.
	1800-1849	'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[unknown]	Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Emmanuel Las Cases	Memorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations o the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Pray, if you love laughing, read "the [italics] Entail [end italics] or the Lairds of Grippy". It is admirable for th...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	John Galt	Entail, The, or The Lairds Of Grippy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I ought to have thanked you for "Redgauntlet" a fortnight ago, but I stayed to read it, and then to read it again. It...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Redgauntlet	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read her [Miss Murray] the legend of Steenie Steenson the other night, and we agreed it was in the author's very be...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Wandering Willie's Tale	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	Frederick Walker. In Memoriam.	Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof.
	1800-1849	'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child]	[memorial on grave]	Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate.
	1800-1849	'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the b...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Mary Shelley	Last Man, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the b...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Maria Edgeworth	[Novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Are not Maria and Anny a thousand times preferable to the Miss in "Inheritance", who describes the Lakes of Cumberland?'	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Susan Ferrier	Inheritance, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'draw her [Harriet, a girl LC is teaching] to such books as White's "Natural History of Selborne", but do not bother a...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Gilbert White	Natural History of Selborne, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'My mind was early formed (or half formed) by the old exploded "Spectator", and Addison's assertion that he had seen "...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Joseph Addison	Spectator, The	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	Morning Post	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	Courier, The	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	[Unknown newspaper - article on Wellesley Long Chancery Case]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the new...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	[newspapers]	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 ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have been feasting upon the Demonology and Witchcraft; yet some stories freshly rung in my ears, and I am sure full...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Walter Scott	Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	Quarterly Review [advertisements for forthcoming works by Scott]	Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	Quarterly Review [Review of Southey's "John Bunyan"]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	A.K.	[fragments, including something in French]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	George Anne Bellamy	Memoirs of George Anne Bellamy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Sophia Baddeley	Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Marie-Jeanne Roland	Memoirs of Madame Roland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Henry Fielding	History of Tom Jones, A Foundling	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Yesterday I had a letter from [Mrs Scott] written with characteristic eagerness about "Trevelyan".'	Mrs Scott	Jane Scott	Trevelyan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's "Trevelyan") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, wr...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	[newspaper advertisements for "Trevelyan"]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Your first inst[alment] [of "Kipps"] in the PMM [Pall Mall Magazine] is jolly good. It turns up [sic] remarkably well...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells	Kipps:The Story of a Simple Soul	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'All I can say is that I am quite enthusiastic about the work ["A Modern Utopia"]. From the first line of the preface ...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells	A Modern Utopia	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
	1800-1849	'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Jane Scott	Trevelyan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he...	Mrs Williams	Jane Scott	Trevelyan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	[n/a]	[newspaper advertisements for Jane Scott's Trevelyan and other books]	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the des...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Ellis Cornelia Knight	Sir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of Italy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the des...	Louisa Clinton	Ellis Cornelia Knight	Sir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of Italy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] ...	Louisa, Lady Stuart	Francois Rene de Chateaubriand	Moïse	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was indeed surprised to find my name in "Patronage" but my surprise was principally caused by finding such honourab...	Samuel Romilly	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n...	Samuel Romilly	[unknown]	[novel by a lady novelist]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the lib...	Samuel Romilly	Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque	[pamphlet on press freedom]
	1900-1945	'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much ...	Joseph Conrad	Norman Douglas	unknown	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	' have not yet seen him [Sir James Mackintosh], but I hear that he has read or has heard some chapters of "L'Angleterr...	James Mackintosh	Germaine de Stael	[writings about England, never published as 'De L'Angleterre', as originally planned]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but t...	Sophie Romilly	Albert Jean Michel de Rocca	Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...	James Mackintosh	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co...	James Mackintosh	Walter Scott	Lord of the Isles, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co...	James Mackintosh	Walter Scott	Rokeby	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...	Samuel Romilly	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Sketch from Private Life, A	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...	Samuel Romilly	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Fare thee well	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the su...	James Mansfield	Jane Haldimand Marcet	Conversations on Political Economy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He...	Samuel Romilly	George Gordon, Lord Byron	[poems]	Print: Book, Unknown
	1800-1849	'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his wo...	Samuel Romilly	Jeremy Bentham	Papers Relative to Codification and Public Instruction	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Mill's great work on India will soon be published in 3 vol. quarto. Sir Samuel saw the two first, and seems to thi...	Samuel Romilly	James Mill	History of British India, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outline...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	Notes on the Firth	Manuscript: Sheet, Unknown
	1850-1899	'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outline...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits.	Manuscript: Unknown, Probably a proof copy.
	1700-1799	'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[papers left at his death]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those p...	James Boswell	John Hawkins	Life of Samuel Johnson	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'There is, in the B. Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I ...	James Boswell	Dr Warburton	[Letter to Thomas Birch]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have a...	James Boswell	William Mason	Memoirs of Gray	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his ch...	James Boswell	William Mason	[Memoir of William Whitehead]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When he [Johnson] was a child in petticoats, and had learnt to read, Mrs Johnson one morning put the common prayer-bo...	Samuel Johnson		Book of Common Prayer [collect for the day]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Lichfield. He to...	Samuel Johnson		[reading lessons]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes conce...	Samuel Johnson		[romances of chivalry]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes conce...	Samuel Johnson	Melchor de Ortega	Felixmarte de Hircania	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclin...	Samuel Johnson	Petrarch	[works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amuse...	Samuel Johnson		[various works of classics and literature]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amuse...	Samuel Johnson	Anacreon		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'what he read during these two years [between Stourbridge school and Oxford] , he told me, was not works of mere amuse...	Samuel Johnson	Hesiod		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'His figure and manner appeared strange to them [the company on the night of Johnson's arrival in Oxford]; but he beha...	Samuel Johnson	Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Having given such a specimen of his poetical powers, he was asked by Mr Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin...	Samuel Johnson	Alexander Pope	Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil's Pollio	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read "The Wh...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Allestree	Whole Duty of Man, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"The church in Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches...	Samuel Johnson			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"When at Oxford, I took up Law's "Serious Call to a Holy Life", expecting to find it a dull book (as such books gener...	Samuel Johnson	William Law	Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla...	Samuel Johnson	Euripides	[Tragedies]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla...	Samuel Johnson	Horace	Ars Poetica	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla...	Samuel Johnson	Theocritus		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla...	Samuel Johnson	Juvenal	Tenth Satire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He appears, from his early notes or memorandums in my possession, to have at various times attempted, or at least pla...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[memoranda of his reading]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[referring to his translation of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia"] Johnson upon this exerted the powers of his mind, thou...	Samuel Johnson	Jeronimo Lobo	Voyage to Abyssinia , A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, told me that he remembered Johnson's borrowing the "Turkish History" of...	Samuel Johnson		[Turkish History]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[original notes for "Irene"]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'My dear Colvin, Thanks for your pencilations. One thing only, remains; how am I to call the followers of Orso and Man...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	annotations	Manuscript: Letter, annotations
	1850-1899	'I say your pavement is d−d jolly.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	The History of a Pavement	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Herewith you receive the rest of Henley’s hospital work. He was much pleased by what you said of him, and asked me ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	[second series of] Hospital Poems	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of re...	Thomas Tryon	[unknown]	[reading primer]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I...	Thomas Tryon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad ta...	Thomas Tryon	[unknown]	[books on astrology]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'	Thomas Tryon	[unknown]	[books]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'	Thomas Tryon	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme...	Mrs Marshall	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted ...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	Gentleman's Magazine, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Mr Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain tavern, and read it over, and that he aft...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Johnson	Irene	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The S...	James Boswell	[n/a]	Scot's Magazine, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well'	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	['The Italian' - unknown text]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpe...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Birch	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sir Joshua Reynolds told me, that upon his return from Italy he met with it [Johnson's "Life of Savage"] in Devonshir...	Joshua Reynolds	Samuel Johnson	Life of Savage	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had ...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[sources for his Dictionary]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Dodsley this year brought out his "Preceptor", oned of the most valuable books for the improvement of young minds ...	James Boswell	Robert Dodsley	Preceptor, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More read...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Vanity of Human Wishes, The	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'he was not altogether unprepared as a periodical writer; for I have in my possession a small duodecimo volume, in whi...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[notes collected for periodical articles]	Print: UnknownManuscript: duodecimo book
	1700-1799	'I profess myself to have ever had a profound veneration for the astonishing force and vivacity of mind which "The Ram...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'["Rambler"] No 32 on patience, even under extreme misery, is wonderfully lofty, and as much above the rant of stoicis...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I have seen some volumes of Dr Young's copy of "The Rambler", in which he has marked the pasages which he thought par...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly...	James Boswell	Joseph Addison	[essays]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to disting...	James Boswell	John Hawkesworth	Adventurer, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as...	James Boswell	James Boswell	[account given to him by Mrs Williams]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his pa...	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Samuel Johnson	[letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'On the 6th of March came out Lord Bolingbroke's works, published by Mr David Mallet. The wild and pernicious ravings,...	James Boswell	Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke	Philosophical works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[thanking Warton for a book he has sent ] You have shewn to all, who shall hereafter attempt the study of our ancient...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Warton	Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnso...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[books of Northern literature]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'There is an old English and Latin book of poems by Barclay, called "The Ship of Fools"; at the end of which are a num...	Samuel Johnson	Alexander Barclay	Ship of Fools, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In one of his little memorandum-books I find the following hints for his intended "Review or Literary Journal": "[it...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[memoranda for a projected literary journal]	Manuscript: Codex, memorandum book
	1700-1799	'The part of your "Dictionary" which you have favoured me with the sight of has given me such an idea of the whole, th...	Thomas Birch	Samuel Johnson	Dictionary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when...	Charles Burney	Samuel Johnson	[Plan for his dictionary]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Mr Charles Burney] had been so much delighted with Johnson's "Rambler" and the "Plan" of his "Dictionary", that when...	Charles Burney	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Let the Preface [to Johnson's Dictionary] be attentively perused, in which is given, in a clear, strong, and glowing ...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Dictionary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[essays]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi...	James Boswell	[n/a]	The Universal Visitor	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate...	Samuel Johnson	Elizabeth Harrison	Miscellanies	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate...	Samuel Johnson	Elizabeth Rowe	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate...	Samuel Johnson	Isaac Watts	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[according to Thomas Campbell] he begged of me that when I returned to Ireland, I would endeavour to procure for him ...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Madden	Boulter's Monument	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Yet there are in the "Idler" several papers which shew as much profundity of thought, and labour of language, as any ...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Idler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la...	James Boswell	Voltaire [pseud.]	Candide: Or, All for the Best	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la...	Samuel Johnson	Voltaire [pseud.]	Candide: Or, All for the Best	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan, in "The Life of Swift", which he af...	James Boswell	Thomas Sheridan	Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculc...	James Boswell	Frances Sheridan	Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Her [Mrs Sheridan's] novel, entitled "Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph", contains an excellent moral, while it inculc...	Samuel Johnson	Frances Sheridan	Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Sir, this book ("The Elements of Criticism", which he had taken up,) is a pretty essay, and deserves to be held in so...	Samuel Johnson	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Elements of Criticism	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi...	Samuel Johnson	James Macpherson	Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'His [Colley Cibber's] friends gave out that he [italics] intended [end italics] his birth-day "Odes" should be bad: b...	Samuel Johnson	Colley Cibber	[Odes]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] no...	Samuel Johnson	William Whitehead	[poem on Garrick]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'"Cibber's familiar style, however, was better than that which Whitehead has assumed. [italics] Grand [end italics] no...	James Boswell	William Whitehead	[poem on Garrick]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Sir, I do not think Gray a first-rate poet. He has not a bold imagination, nor much command of words. The obscurity i...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Gray	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Dr John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said, "Campbell is a man...	Samuel Johnson	John Campbell	Hermippus Redivivus: Or, the Sage's Triumph Over Old Age and the Grave.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry, observing, that "it had a temporary currency, only from its auda...	Samuel Johnson	Charles Churchill	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest...	James Boswell	Charles Churchill	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest...	James Boswell	Charles Churchill	Prophecy of Famine, The. A Scots Pastoral	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Bonnell Thornton had just published a burlesque "Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz....	Samuel Johnson	Bonnell Thornton	Ode on St. Cecilia's day, adapted to the ancient British music, viz. the salt-box, the jews- harp, the marrow-bones and cleaver, the hum-strum or hurdy-gurdy, &c	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thin...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	Connoisseur, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thin...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	World, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thi...	James Boswell	[n/a]	Connoisseur, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w...	James Lackington	Paley	Evidences of Christianity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Jenkin's is the most copious and the best work I ever read in defence of divine revelation. It treats in a clear man...	James Lackington	Robert Jenkin	Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The book ["The Year of Trafalgar"] arrived. Some day I will bring it to London for you to write your name and mine ...	Joseph Conrad	Henry Newbolt	The Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the battle and of the events which led up to it, with a collection of the poems and ballads written thereupon between 1805 and 1905	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out ...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	'The Icelandic Sagas'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I have re-read your book on Trafalgar and can only repeat that your argumentation is absolutely convincing.'	Joseph Conrad	Henry Newbolt	The Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the battle and of the events which led up to it, with a collection of the poems and ballads written thereupon between 1805 and 1905	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'If you don't know already it may interest you to know that in Anatole France's last book ["Sur la pierre blanche"] th...	Joseph Conrad	Anatole France	Sur la pierre blanche	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in yo...	Joseph Conrad	Anatole France	Abeille: conte	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in yo...	Joseph Conrad	Anatole France	Thais	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Tuesday the 5th of July, I again visited Johnson. He told me he had looked into the poems of a pretty voluminous w...	Samuel Johnson	John Ogilvie	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is...	Samuel Johnson	Pierre Bayle	Historical and Critical Dictionary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is...	Samuel Johnson	John Arbuthnot	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is...	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Addison	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ...	James Boswell	David Dalrymple	[letter to Boswell]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia...	Samuel Johnson	Frederick II King of Prussia	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia...	James Boswell	Frederick II King of Prussia	Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg. From the earliest accounts, to the death of Frederick I.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia...	James Boswell	Frederick II King of Prussia	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The conversation now turned upon Mr. David Hume's style. Johnson. "Why, Sir, his style is not English; the structure ...	Samuel Johnson	David Hume	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut...	Samuel Johnson	David Hume	Enquiry concerning Human Understanding	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut...	James Boswell	David Hume	Enquiry concerning Human Understanding	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] "Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost a...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleas...	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Warton	Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He said, Dr. Joseph Warton was a very agreeable man, and his "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope," a very pleas...	James Boswell	Joseph Warton	Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that...	Samuel Johnson	Martin Martin	Description of the Western Islands of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa...	Samuel Johnson	Jonathan Swift	Tale of a Tub, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa...	Samuel Johnson	James Thomson	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was much pleased to find myself with Johnson at Greenwich, which he celebrates in his "London" as a favourite scene...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Buchanan, he said, was a very fine poet; and observed that he was the first who complimented a lady, by ascribing to ...	Samuel Johnson	George Buchanan	Nympha Caledoniae	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He had in his pocket, "Pomponius Mela de Situ Orbis," in which he read occasionally, and seemed very intent upon anci...	Samuel Johnson	Pomponius Mela	De situ orbis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He talked of Mr. Blacklock's poetry, so far as it was descriptive of visible objects; and observed, that "as its auth...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Blacklock	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Boswell to Johnson] Of the modern Frisick, or what is spoken by the boors at this day, I have procured a specimen. I...	James Boswell	Gisbert Japix	Rymelerie	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He wrote a review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a Poem", in the "London Chronicle". He told me, that Dr. Percy wrote the...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	London Chronicle [review of Grainger's "Sugar Cane, a poem"]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'From one of his Journals I transcribed what follows : "At church, Oct.—65. " To avoid all singularity; [italics...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[journal]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'He kept the greater part of mine [letters] very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to ...	James Boswell	James Boswell	[letter to Johnson from Corsica]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since ...	Samuel Johnson	Oliver Goldsmith	Traveller, The	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w...	James Lackington	Bishop Watson	Apology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas Paine	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w...	James Lackington	Bishop Porteus	Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w...	James Lackington	Addison	Evidences of the Christian Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w...	James Lackington	Madame de Genlis	Religion the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy, in which the Principles of the modern pretended Philosophers are laid open and refuted	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w...	James Lackington	Bishop Butler	Divine Analogy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w...	James Lackington	Bentley	Sermons on the Folly of Atheism	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w...	James Lackington	Jenkins	Reasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[James Edward Austen] read his two Chapters to us the first Evening; - both good - but especially the last in our opi...	James Edward Austen	James Edward Austen	unpublished manuscript story	Manuscript: Sheet
	1700-1799	'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr...	James Boswell	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Emile	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated wr...	James Boswell	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Discourse on Inequality	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[Lowth-Warburton controversy]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns...	Samuel Johnson	George, Lord Lyttelton	History of the Life of Henry the Second	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The King then asked him what he thought of Dr. Hill. Johnson answered, he was an ingenious man, but had no veracity; ...	Samuel Johnson	Dr Hill	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	Monthly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	Critical Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;...	Samuel Johnson	Henry Fielding	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Richardson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;...	James Boswell	Samuel Richardson	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners;...	James Boswell	Henry Fielding	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[EDITOR WRITES]'During several months, Mr Hamilton was sedulously engaged in unravelling all the intricacies of the Pe...	Charles Hamilton	[n/a]	Hedaya	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "T...	Mrs G-	Elizabeth Hamilton	Letters of a Hindoo Rajah	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "T...	Mrs G-	Elizabeth Hamilton	Memoirs of Modern Philosophers	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi...	James Lackington	Richard Watson	An Apology for the Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evid...	James Lackington	Beilby Porteus	A Summary of the Principle Evidences for the Truth and Divine Origin of the Christian Revelation	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi...	James Lackington	Joseph Butler	The Analogy of Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi...	James Lackington	William Paley	A View of the Evidences of Christianity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi...	James Lackington	Burges	The Progress of Pilgrim Good-Intent	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi...	James Lackington	Blaise Pascal	Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi...	James Lackington	Joseph Addison	Evidence of the Christian Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi...	James Lackington	Stephanie de Genlis	Religion considered as the only Basis of Happiness and true Philosophy	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi...	James Lackington	Robert Jenkin	Reasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Religion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ...	James Lackington	Bishop Horne	Sermons (4vols)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ...	James Lackington	Samuel Carr	Sermons	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ...	James Lackington	Hugh Blair	Sermons (5 vols)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ...	James Lackington	John Scott	Christian Life(5 vols)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ...	James Lackington	Augustin Calmet	Dictionary of the Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ...	James Lackington	Flavius Josephus	Works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ...	James Lackington	Humphrey Prideaux	The Old and New Testament connected in the history of the Jews and neighbouring nations	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ...	James Lackington	Hannah More	Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Macaulay, who writes the account of St. Kilda, set out with a prejudice against prejudice, and...	Samuel Johnson	Kenneth Macaulay	History of St Kilda	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y...	Samuel Johnson	David Hume	History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y...	Samuel Johnson	Voltaire	[books of history]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y...	Samuel Johnson	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Elements of Criticism	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y...	Samuel Johnson	William Robertson	History of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He praised Signor Baretti. "His account of Italy is a very entertaining book; and, Sir, I know no man who carries his...	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Baretti	Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy; with Observations on the Mistakes of some Travellers, with Regard to that Country	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral...	Samuel Johnson	James Thomson	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral...	Samuel Johnson	James Thomson	[letters to his sisters and accounts by them of his character]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Lives of the Poets	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral...	James Boswell	James Thomson	[letters to his sister and accounts by them of his character]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'Swift having been mentioned, Johnson, as usual, treated him with little respect as an author. Some of us endeavoured ...	Samuel Johnson	Jonathan Swift	The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War
	1700-1799	'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that per...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh...	Samuel Johnson	Matthew Prior	Alexis shunn'd his fellow swains	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh...	Hester Thrale	Matthew Prior	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Thrale disputed with him on the merit of Prior. He attacked him powerfully ; said he wrote of love like a man wh...	Hester Thrale	David Garrick	[light verse]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those...	Samuel Johnson	Alexander Pope	Dunciad, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those...	Samuel Johnson	Alexander Pope	Pastorals	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those...	Samuel Johnson	William Congreve	Mourning Bride, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those...	Samuel Johnson	John Dryden	Absalom and Achitophel	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those...	Samuel Johnson	William Shakespeare	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I ...	Samuel Johnson	Elizabeth Montagu	Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I ...	Joshua Reynolds	Elizabeth Montagu	Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h...	Samuel Johnson	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Elements of Criticism	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h...	Samuel Johnson	Edmund Burke	Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h...	Samuel Johnson	Jean-Baptiste Dubos	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h...	Samuel Johnson	Dominique Bouhours	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h...	Samuel Johnson	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The ballad of Hardyknute has no great merit, if it be really ancient. People talk of nature. But mere obvious nature ...	Samuel Johnson	Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw	Hardyknute	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber hims...	Samuel Johnson	Colley Cibber	Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Buchanan (he observed,) has fewer [italics] centos [end italics] than any modern Latin poet. He not only had great kn...	Samuel Johnson	George Buchanan	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Boswell. "What do you think of Dr. Young's 'Night Thoughts,' Sir?" Johnson. "Why, Sir, there are many fine things in ...	Samuel Johnson	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it a...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	London Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it a...	James Boswell	[n/a]	London Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	William Gifford	Memoir of Ben Jonson	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Libe...	Samuel Johnson	John Bramhall	Discourse of Liberty and Necessity	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Libe...	Samuel Johnson	South	Sermons on Prayer	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds...	Samuel Johnson	Walter Harte	History of the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval to 16th c.]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds...	Samuel Johnson	Robert Burton	Anatomy of Melancholy, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London-based priest friend of Johnson] He much commended Law's "Serious Call...	Samuel Johnson	William Law	Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Of Dr. Priestley's theological works, he remarked, that they tended to unsettle every thing, and yet settled nothing....	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Priestley	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not ...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Richardson	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not ...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[French novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues he deemed a nugatory performance. "That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell ...	Samuel Johnson	George, first Lord Lyttelton	Dialogues of the Dead	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain sh...	Samuel Johnson	James MacPherson	'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossian]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Speaking of Boetius, who was the favourite writer of the middle ages, he said it was very surprising, that upon such ...	Samuel Johnson	Boethius	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Speaking of Arthur Murphy, whom he very much loved, "I don't know (said he) that Arthur can be classed with the very ...	Samuel Johnson	Arthur Murphy	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Speaking of Homer, whom he venerated as the prince of poets, Johnson remarked that the advice given to Diomed by his ...	Samuel Johnson	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands
	1700-1799	'I was last night at the Club. Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many [italics] fits [end italics]; it is pretty ...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Percy	Hermit of Warkworth, The	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands
	1700-1799	'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	False Alarm, The
	1700-1799	He had said in the morning that "Macaulay's 'History of St. Kilda' was very well written, except some foppery about li...	Samuel Johnson	Kenneth Macaulay	History of St Kilda	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and ...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[legal case papers]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[legal case papers]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'What philosophy suggests to us on this topick [the possibility of life after death] is probable: what Scripture tells...	Samuel Johnson	Henry More	[theological works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a ...	Samuel Johnson	Charles Drelincourt	Christians Defense against the Fears of Death	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Boswell. "I do not know whether there are any well attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a ...	James Boswell	Charles Drelincourt	Christians Defense against the Fears of Death	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a ...	James Boswell	Mark Akenside	Pleasures of Imagination, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a ...	Samuel Johnson	Mark Akenside	Pleasures of Imagination, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.'	James Boswell	[unknown]	[legal trial papers]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor mat...	Samuel Johnson	Oliver Goldsmith	Life of Parnell	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo...	Samuel Johnson	Owen Ruffhead	Life of Alexander Pope	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo...	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Warton	Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He censured Ruffhead's "Life of Pope"; -and said, "he knew nothing of Pope, and nothing of poetry." He praised Dr. Jo...	James Boswell	Joseph Warton	Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I...	James Boswell	George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham	Rehearsal, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I...	Samuel Johnson	George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham	Rehearsal, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra...	Samuel Johnson	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Richardson	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra...	James Boswell	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so stra...	Thomas Erskine	Samuel Richardson	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Paterson	Another Traveller: or Cursory Remarks and Critical Observations made upon a Journey through Part of the Netherlands	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate...	Samuel Johnson	Laurence Sterne	Sentimental Journey, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Pate...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Coryat	Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and ...	Samuel Johnson	Tacitus	Histories	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Tacitus, and I hazarded an opinion that with all his merit for penetration, shrewdness of judgment, and ...	James Boswell	Tacitus	Histories	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Prayers and Meditations	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c...	Samuel Johnson	Francis Osborne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c...	James Boswell	Francis Osborne	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A c...	James Boswell	Joseph Addison	Spectator, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Beattie's book is, I believe, every day more liked; at least, I like it more as I look more upon it.'	Samuel Johnson	James Beattie	Minstrel, The; or, The Progress of Genius	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have read your kind letter much more than the elegant Pindar which it accompanied'.	Samuel Johnson	Pindar	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ...	James Boswell		London Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ...	Mrs Williams	[n/a]	London Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ...	Samuel Johnson	Oliver Goldsmith	[apology for beating a bookseller]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord...	Samuel Johnson	John Dalrymple	Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord...	James Boswell	John Dalrymple	Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepa...	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Addison	Spectator, The	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'He talked with approbation of an intended edition of "The Spectator," with notes; two volumes of which had been prepa...	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Addison	Spectator, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Thursday, April 8, I sat a good part of the evening with him, but he was very silent. He said, "Burnet's 'History ...	Samuel Johnson	Gilbert Burnet	History of My Own Time	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did n...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	Greek New Testament	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did n...	James Boswell	[unknown]	[books belonging to Johnson]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In Archbishop Laud's Diary I found the following passage, which I read to Dr. Johnson: "1623. February 1, Sunday. ...	James Boswell	William Laud	[diary]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written...	James Boswell	Allan Ramsay	Gentle Shepherd, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Boswell. "I rather think, Sir, that Toryism prevails in this reign." Johnson. "I know not why you should think so, Si...	Samuel Johnson	George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton	History of the Life of Henry the Second	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ...	James Elphinstone	[unknown]	[a recently published book]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[a recently published book]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[tale in Mrs Williams's 'Miscellanies']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson, though remarkable for his great variety of composition, never exercised his talents in fable, except we allo...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[manuscript plan for a fable]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...	Samuel Johnson	Oliver Goldsmith	Traveller, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...	Samuel Johnson	Oliver Goldsmith	Deserted Village, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...	Samuel Johnson	Oliver Goldsmith	Roman History From The Foundation of The City of Rom	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...	Samuel Johnson	William Robertson	History of Scotland 1542 - 1603	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...	Samuel Johnson	Oliver Goldsmith	History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...	Samuel Johnson	Rene Aubert Vertot	Révolutions romains	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...	Samuel Johnson	David Dalrymple	[books of history]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...	James Boswell	William Robertson	History of Scotland 1542 - 1603	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and t...	Samuel Johnson	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and t...	Samuel Johnson	Dante Alighieri	Divine Comedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species of wit, deigned to allow that there was one good ...	Samuel Johnson	Monsieur Menage	Menagiana Ou Les Bons Mots	Print: Book
	1800-1849	S. T. Coleridge on Tennyson's Poems. Chiefly Lyrical (1830): '"I have not read through all Mr Tennyson's poems, whi...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Alfred Tennyson	Poems, Chiefly Lyrical	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The first entire work that I read in defence of revealed religion, was Archdeacon Paley's View of the Evidences of Ch...	James Lackington	William Paley	View of the Evidences of Christianity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles Merivale [...] wrote to [W. H.] Thompson [...]: '"Though the least eminent of the Tennysonian Rhapsodists,...	Charles Merivale	Alfred Tennyson	'The Lotos-Eaters'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[W. H.] Brookfield writes [to Tennyson] from Sheffield: '"You and Rob Montgomery are our only brewers now! A propo...	James Montgomery	Alfred Tennyson	sonnets	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833: 'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time,...	The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Wilhelm Meister	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of t...	James Lackington	anon [Religious Tract Society]	tracts	Print: tracts
	1800-1849	'Not long ater this he brought from Bristol Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, 2 vols. 8vo. I having expressed a wish t...	James Lackington	John Whitehead	The Life of the Rev John Wesley	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I again took up Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, and as I saw by the title-page that it contained an account of Mr W...	James and Mary Lackington	John Whitehead	The Life of the Rev John Wesley	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson said, I might see the subject [a controversy about the Church of Scotland] well treated in the "Defence of Pl...	Samuel Johnson	Henry Wharton	Defence of Pluralities, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Talking of birds, I mentioned Mr. Daines Barrington's ingenions Essay against the received notion of their migration'.	James Boswell	Daines Barrington	[Essay on bird migration]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature; observing, "Sir, it...	Samuel Johnson	James Burnett, Lord Monboddo	Of the Origin and Progress of Language	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Letter to George Steevens] I thank you for "Neander", but wish he were not so fine. I will take care of him'.	Samuel Johnson	Joachim Neander	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Letter to Boswell] Dr. Webster's informations were much less exact and much less determinate than I expected: they a...	Samuel Johnson	Alexander Webster	[census of Scotland]	Manuscript: Codex
	1700-1799	' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel...	Samuel Johnson	David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes	Annals of Scotland	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excel...	James Boswell	David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes	Annals of Scotland	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I can...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Louis Stevenson	When the Devil Was Well.	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	I am very busy with Beranger for the "Britannica".	Robert Louis Stevenson	Pierre-Jean Beranger	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'O when we woke in London docks, the first steamer I saw go past was the "Charles", and the next the "Cygnet": I was a...	Robert Louis Stevenson			Manuscript: Letter, Painted (or stencilled?) on ships' sides.
	1700-1799	'[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is...	James Boswell	Izaak Walton	Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is...	Samuel Johnson	Izaak Walton	Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull a...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	' [Letter from Johnson to Boswell] Last night I corrected the last page of our "Journey to the Hebrides".'	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Johnson	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.	Print: proofs
	1700-1799	'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	[Greek Testaments]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	Eclogues	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	8th Eclogue	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	1st Georgic	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[diary]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Johnson to John Hoole] I have returned your play, which you will find underscored with red, where there ...	Samuel Johnson	John Hoole	Cleonice	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Be pleased to accept of my best thanks for your "Journey to the Hebrides", which cam...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have at last sent back Lord Hailes's sheets, I never think about returning them, ...	Samuel Johnson	David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes	Annals of Scotland	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophica...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of hi...	James Boswell	James Macpherson	[Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Gustave Aimard	unidentified novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Philip Gilbert Hamerton	Art Essays	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary ve...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edmund Gosse	New Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Bancroft's History of the United States, even in a centenary edition, is essentially heavy fare ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Bancroft	History of the United States of America from the Discovery of the American Continent	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[The Dean of Westminster writes] 'In a letter from Arthur Stanley, written from Hurstmonceux Rectory in the Septemb...	Julius Hare	Alfred Tennyson	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Samuel Rogers to Alfred Tennyson, 17 August 1842: 'Every day I have resolved to write and tell you with what deligh...	Samuel Rogers	Alfred Tennyson	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842: 'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of th...	Thomas Carlyle	Alfred Tennyson	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December...	Samuel Bamford	Alfred Tennyson	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster, on presentation of inscribed copy of Tennyson's poems to Samuel Bamford, 7 December...	Samuel Bamford	Alfred Tennyson	'The Sleeping Beauty'	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'From time to time, Lang writes charming articles in the "Daily News": witness one, a week or so past, on Montaigne: i...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Andrew Lang	[article on Montaigne]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress
	1700-1799	Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the ...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress	Print: proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections
	1700-1799	'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph...	Joseph Towers	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph...	Joseph Towers	Samuel Johnson	False Alarm, The
	1700-1799	'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph...	Joseph Towers	Samuel Johnson	Patriot, The
	1700-1799	'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by Joseph...	Joseph Towers	Samuel Johnson	Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands
	1700-1799	'I found his " Journey" the common topick of conversation in London at this time, wherever I happened to be. At one of...	William Murray, First Earl Mansfield	Samuel Johnson	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,...	Samuel Johnson	Jonathan Swift	Tale of a Tub, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,...	Samuel Johnson	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,...	Samuel Johnson	Jonathan Swift	Drapier's Letters, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift,...	Samuel Johnson	Jonathan Swift	Plan for the Improvement of the English Language	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its author with a gold medal. Some...	Samuel Johnson	John Home	Douglas, A tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its authour with a gold medal. Som...	Thomas Sheridan	John Home	Douglas, A tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Gray	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Gray	The Bard: A Pindaric Ode	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ...	James Boswell	Thomas Gray	The Bard: A Pindaric Ode	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ...	James Boswell	Thomas Gray	Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Gray	[Odes]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Lord Chesterfield's letters being mentioned, Johnson said, "It was not to be wondered at that they had so great a sal...	Samuel Johnson	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Letters to his Son	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The book ["The Man of Property"] is in parts marvellously done and in its whole a piece of art-undubitably [sic] a pi...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Man of Property	Manuscript: presumably copy of MS sent for publication, or the page proofs, since book was publsihed on 23 March 1906
	1900-1945	'The blessed vol: ["The Fifth Queen"] arrived about 4 days ago - or is it a week? I've read it twice - thats all.[...]...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	The Fifth Queen and how she came to court	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Ford's ] "The Heart of the Country" is out today and a very charming piece of writing it is.'	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	The Heart of the Country:A Survey of Modern Land	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I've read Jack's article in the "Speaker". Hum! Hum! He had better be careful.'	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Wanted - Schooling in Fiction	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The Comet appeared to my naked (and surprised) eye yesterday morning. By a great effort of will I stuck to my own tas...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells	In the Days of the Comet	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'And on the subject of Wells, his book on the United States is quite smart.He has understood a heap of fundamentally u...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells	The Future in America: A search after realities	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I got the play ["The Breaking Point"] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of ...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	The Breaking Point	Print: unclear whether MS or printed playscript
	1850-1899	'The best trumpet that I can suggest is to read Thomas Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. Sick as I am of reading anything in...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Carlyle	Essay on Burns	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have...	Joseph Conrad	Théophile Gautier	Emaux et Camées	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They...	Samuel Johnson	George Colman	Two Odes: To Obscurity and To Oblivion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They...	Samuel Johnson	William Mason	Elfrida	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They...	James Boswell	William Mason	Elfrida	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f...	James Boswell	William Mason	Elfrida	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f...	James Boswell	William Mason	Caractacus: A Dramatic Poem	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f...	James Boswell	William Mason	[minor poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath...	Samuel Johnson	[unknown]	[verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Dr Thomas Campbell, who dined with Johnson on 3 April 1775] has since published "A Philosophical Survey of the South...	James Boswell	Thomas Campbell	Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dr. Johnson, as usual, spoke contemptuously of Colley Cibber. "It is wonderful that a man, who for forty years had li...	Samuel Johnson	Colley Cibber	Careless Husband, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Twiss	Travels through Portugal and Spain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel...	Samuel Johnson	John George Keysler	Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel...	Samuel Johnson	Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville	Travels through Holland, Germany and Switzerland, but especially Italy, with maps	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel...	Samuel Johnson	Patrick Brydone	Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford	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
	1700-1799	'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel...	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Addison	Remarks on Several Parts of Italy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travel...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Pococke	Description of the East and Some other Countries,	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty ...	Samuel Johnson	John Scott	[Elegies]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty ...	James Boswell	John Scott	[Elegies]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and newspapers, in which his "Journey to the Western Islands...	James Boswell	[n/a]	[various Scottish magazine reviews of Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'He talked of Isaac Walton's "Lives", which was one of his most favourite books. Dr. Donne's "Life", he said, was the ...	Samuel Johnson	Izaak Walton	Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did g...	Joseph Conrad	Herman Melville	Moby Dick or The Whale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been a few times to the Town [Montpellier] Library- with an object. And the object is reading up all I can di...	Joseph Conrad	Paul Gruyer	Napoleon, roi de l'ile d'Elbe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by your...	Joseph Conrad	Jessie Conrad	A handbook of Cookery for a Small House	Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well
	1900-1945	'My dearest Jack I read the "C[ountry H[ouse]" with perfectly unalloyed delight. [...] I can only say it came to me in...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Country House	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The late "worthy'' Duke of Queensberry, as Thomson, in his "Seasons," justly characterises him, told me that when Gay...	Charles Douglas, Third Duke of Queensberry	John Gay	Beggar's Opera, The	Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] "Hudibras" affords a strong proof how much hold political principles had then upon the minds of men. T...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Butler	Hudibras	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die...	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Addison	Spectator, The [Roger de Coverley essays]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die...	Samuel Johnson	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' I didn't write before because I was finishing something. That does not mean that I did not read the play ["Joy"] at ...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Joy	Print: probably a playscript
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the...	Samuel Johnson	David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes	Annals of Scotland	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the...	Samuel Johnson	Charles-Jean-François Henault	[history]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Boswell	Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I've read Hueffer's portrait of Mr John Galsworthy several times. It is interesting mostly as a portrait of Mr Hueffe...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	[article on Galsworthy]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,...	Samuel Johnson		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,...	Samuel Johnson	anon.	Speculum humanae Salvationis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,...	Samuel Johnson	[n/a]	Durandi Sanctuarium	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ...	Samuel Johnson	Giovanni Boccacio	[tales from the 'Decameron']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ...	Samuel Johnson	Petrarch	[unknown oration]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ...	Samuel Johnson	Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland	[unknown text - letters?- presumably addressed to his associate George Sandys]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some ...	Samuel Johnson	John Dryden	[preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Vol 7 On the Griphi and Impromptus (quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small...	Frances Hamilton	Abbot Barthelemu	Travels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into...	Samuel Johnson	David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes	Annals of Scotland	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Letter to Boswell] I Have at last sent you all Lord Hailes's papers. While I was in France, I looked very often into...	Samuel Johnson	Charles Jean François Henault	Abrege chronologique de l'histoire de France	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A book I have a high opinion of'	Frances Hamilton	Dugald Stewart	Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan. N.B. a rebellious book.'	Frances Hamilton	D O'Bryan	The Government of the Country	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson opined that] Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation....	Samuel Johnson	Robert Burton	Anatomy of Melancholy, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated...	Samuel Johnson	Jason de Nores	[edition of Horace with commentary]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Bentley	[edition of Horace with commentary]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient ...	Samuel Johnson	John Campbell	Political Survey of Great Britain, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had latel...	Samuel Johnson	Laurence Sterne	Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had latel...	James Boswell	Giuseppe Baretti	[unidentified 'Dialogues']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall...	Samuel Johnson	John Dyer	Fleece, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall...	Samuel Johnson	James Grainger	Sugar Cane, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall...	Samuel Johnson	James Grainger	Poetical translation of the elegies of Tibullus, A; and of the poems of Sulpicia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall...	James Boswell	James Grainger	Sugar Cane, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall...	James Grainger	James Grainger	Sugar Cane, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson ...	James Boswell	Robert Barclay	Apology for the True Christian Divinity	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson ...	Samuel Johnson	Robert Barclay	Apology for the True Christian Divinity	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any b...	Samuel Johnson	Robert Nelson	Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] The excellent Mr. Nelson's "Festivals and Fasts," which has, I understand, the greatest sale of any b...	Samuel Johnson	Joseph Holden Pott	[sermons on church holidays]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it ap...	Samuel Johnson	Patrick Brydone	Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Letters to William Beckford Esq.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it ap...	James Boswell	Patrick Brydone	Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Letters to William Beckford Esq.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson had with him upon this jaunt, "Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra", a romance praised by Cervantes; but did not like ...	Samuel Johnson	Francisco de Morais	Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Sunday, March 31, I called on him, and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered, his "Translation of Lobo'...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in so...	Samuel Johnson	George Cheyne	English Malady, The: or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books. I said, I thought Cheyne had been reckoned whimsical. "So he was, (said he,) in so...	Samuel Johnson	George Cheyne	Essay on Health and Long Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Joseph Simpson] wrote a tragedy on the story of Leonidas, entitled "The Patriot". He read it to a company of lawy...	Joseph Simpson	Joseph Simpson	Patriot, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "S...	Samuel Johnson	Abraham Cowley	Selected Works	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Flatman	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Flatman	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	'Dying Christian to his Soul, The'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Gray	[Memoirs]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you...	Samuel Johnson	Mark Akenside	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you...	Samuel Johnson	William Mason	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He ment...	Samuel Johnson		Monthly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Talking of the Reviews, Johnson said, "I think them very impartial: I do not know an instance of partiality". He ment...	Samuel Johnson		Critical Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Talking of "The Spectator", he said, "It is wonderful that there is such a proportion of bad papers, in the half of t...	Samuel Johnson	Henry Grove	'Novelty' [essay in The Spectator]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His faul...	Samuel Johnson	James Thomson	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] You may find wit and humour in verse, and yet no poetry. "Hudibras" has a profusion of these; yet it ...	Samuel Johnson	Ibbot	'Fit of the Spleen, A'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th...	Samuel Johnson	William Shakespeare	Othello	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I observed the great defect of the tragedy of "Othello" was, that it had not a moral; for that no man could resist th...	James Boswell	William Shakespeare	Othello	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He said, he wished to see John Dennis's "Critical Works" collected. Davies said they would not sell. Dr. Johnson seem...	Samuel Johnson	John Dennis	[critical works]	Print: Serial / periodical, presumably not in a book if Johnson wanted them to be collected
	1700-1799	'He told us, he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping'.	Samuel Johnson	Henry Fielding	Amelia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sir Joshua [Reynolds] mentioned Mr. Cumberland's "Odes", which were just published. JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, they would ha...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Cumberland	[Odes]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I hav...	James Boswell		[Monthly and Critical Reviews]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'We talked of the Reviews, and Dr. Johnson spoke of them as he did at Thrale's. Sir Joshua [Reynolds] said, what I hav...	Joshua Reynolds		[Monthly and Critical Reviews]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'By the way, I have tried to read the Spectator, which they all say I imitate, and - it's very wrong of me I know - bu...	Robert Louis Stevenson		The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	[I have seen] 'Your "Art and Criticism", likewise there'.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	'Art and Criticism' in Appleton's Journal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'When last observed, he was studying with apparent zest the exploits of one Rocambole by the late Viscount Ponson of T...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail	Les Exploits de Rocambole	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him;...	Samuel Johnson	Robert Blair	'The Grave, a Poem'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'He told me that "so long ago as 1748 he had read 'The Grave, a Poem', but did not like it much." I differed from him;...	James Boswell	Robert Blair	'The Grave, a Poem'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the ...	James Boswell	Thomas Chatterton	[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'On Monday, April 29, he and I made an excursion to Bristol, where I was entertained with seeing him enquire upon the ...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Chatterton	[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Johnson said of Chatterton, "This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonder...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Chatterton	[poems supposedly by Thomas Rowley]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] The little volumes entitled "Respublicae", which are very well done, were a bookseller's work'.	Samuel Johnson		Respublicae	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] "There is much talk of the misery which we cause to the brute creation; but they are recompensed by e...	James Boswell	Francis Hutcheson	System of Moral Philosophy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", I think, might be made a very pretty book. Take out the imm...	Samuel Johnson	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Letters to his Son	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I read (said he [Johnson],) Sharpe's letters on Italy over again, when I was at Bath. There is a great deal of matter...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Sharp	Letters from Italy, describing the Customs and Manners of that Country	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" have not that painted form which is the taste of this age; but it ...	Samuel Johnson	David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes	Annals of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend....	Samuel Johnson	William Lowth	[biblical commentaries - old testament]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend....	Samuel Johnson	Patrick	[biblical commentaries - old testament]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend....	Samuel Johnson	Henry Hammond	A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of the New Testament	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I read this [Johnson's argument regarding a legal case on the liberty of the pulpit in which Boswell was involve...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[a legal argument]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ...	James Boswell	Colley Cibber	Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ...	James Boswell	Colley Cibber	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ...	Samuel Johnson	Colley Cibber	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be ...	Samuel Johnson	Colley Cibber	An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] He [Colley Cibber] abused Pindar to me, and then shewed me an Ode of his own, with an absurd couplet, ...	Samuel Johnson	Colley Cibber	[an Ode]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'In many respects and from an absolute point of judgement - the book ["An English Girl"] is simply magnificent.' Henc...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	An English Girl	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop...	Samuel Johnson	Horace	Ars poetica	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	'The first instalment of your story in the PMM ["Pall Mall Magazine"] opens the year brilliantly. How good you are in ...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells	The War in the Air	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I have read M. Auguste.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Joseph Mery	Monsieur Auguste	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have read M. Auguste and the Crime Inconnu, being now abonne to a library.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Joseph Mery	Un crime inconnu	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Damned Ones of the Hindies now occupy my attention.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Joseph Mery	Les Damnes de Java	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The new edition of the "Island Ph[arisee]" arrived during the crisis of horrors [severe gout and the debilitating eff...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Island Pharisees	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Boswell having complained that he was suffering from melancholy, Johnson wrote] 'Read Cheyne's "English Malady"; but...	Samuel Johnson	George Cheyne	English Malady, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Since I wrote, I have looked over Mr. Maclaurin's plea, and think it excellent. [ a...	Samuel Johnson		[legal documents relating to Mr Maclaurin]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has...	Samuel Johnson	James Granger	Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has...	James Boswell	James Granger	Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] Xenophon observes, in his "Treatise of Oeconomy", that if every thing be kept in a c...	Samuel Johnson	Xenophon	Oeconomicus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [publisher Mr Strahan] received from Johnson on Christmas-eve, a note in which was the following paragraph: "I h...	Samuel Johnson	Hugh Blair	[a sermon]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your paper on "Vicious Intromission" is a noble proof of what you can do even in Sco...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[paper on an aspect of Scottish law]	Unknown
	1700-1799	' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey...	James Burnett, Lord Monboddo	Samuel Johnson	Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Dr. Blair is printing some sermons. If they are all like the first, which I have re...	Samuel Johnson	Hugh Blair	[A Sermon]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] You forget that Mr. Shaw's "Erse Grammar" was put into your hands by myself last yea...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[proposals for the publication of William Shaw's 'Erse Grammar']	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Our worthy friend Thrale's death having appeared in the newspapers, and been afterwa...	James Boswell		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?'	James Boswell	Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Memoirs and Last Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Please to return Dr. Blair thanks for his sermons. The Scotch write English wonderf...	Samuel Johnson	Hugh Blair	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[letter from Johnson to Charles O' Connor] Dr. Leland begins his history too late: the ages which deserve an exact en...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Leland	History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom...	James Boswell	Theophilus Cibber	Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom...	James Boswell	Patrick Murdoch	[Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom...	James Boswell	anon.	[Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom...	James Boswell		Biographia Britannica	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom...	James Boswell		Biographical Dictionary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom...	James Boswell	Joseph Warton	Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by him...	James Boswell	David Hume	My Own Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I lately read Rasselas over again with great satisfaction'.	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , the	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] wrote also "The Convict's Address to his unhappy Brethren", a sermon delivered by Dr. Dodd [ a clergyman...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[sermon written for Dr Dodd]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'This letter [printed above; from Dr Dodd, a clergyman condemned to death, asking Johnson to help him appeal for cleme...	Samuel Johnson	William Dodd	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me...	Samuel Johnson	William Hamilton	'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me...	Samuel Johnson	William Hamilton	[imitations of Horace]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me...	Samuel Johnson	William Hamilton	'Inscription in a Summer house'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me...	Samuel Johnson	William Hamilton	[poem on Winter]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me...	James Boswell	William Hamilton	[poem on Winter]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me...	James Boswell	William Hamilton	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] observed, that a gentleman of eminence in literature [Thomas Warton] had got into a bad style of poetry ...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Warton	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson] praised Blair's sermons: "Yet", said he, (willing to let us see he was aware that fashionable fame, howeve...	Samuel Johnson	Hugh Blair	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an ac...	Samuel Johnson		Critical Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] was much diverted with an article which I shewed him in the "Critical Review" of this year, giving an ac...	James Boswell		Critical Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Some of the ancient philosophers held, that all deviations from right reason were madness; and whoever wishes to see ...	James Boswell	Thomas Arnold	Observations on Insanity	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. ...	James Boswell	George Forster	Voyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. ...	Samuel Johnson	George Forster	Voyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[sermon written for John Taylor]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh...	James Boswell	John Taylor	Sermons left for publication by the Reverend John Taylor LL.D.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Burke's "Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America", being mentioned, Johnson censured the com...	Samuel Johnson	Edmund Burke	Letter To The Sheriffs Of Bristol	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on s...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Various	[Texts by or about 15th-century French literary and historical figures]	Print: Probably books and articles.
	1700-1799	'We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immedi...	James Boswell	Robert Plott	Natural History of Staffordshire	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to...	James Boswell	Gilbert Burnet	Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to...	Samuel Johnson	Gilbert Burnet	Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to...	Samuel Johnson	John Wilmot, Lord Rochester	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of...	James Boswell	Matthew Prior	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The Brittany game is simply “on it”. There are no two ways of that. [ref.to Note 1] Look here, my young and lovel...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	At the Land's End of France.	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire: Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of...	Samuel Johnson	Matthew Prior	[Poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali...	Samuel Johnson	Horace	Odes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali...	Samuel Johnson	Homer	Iliad and Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] told me that Bacon was a favourite authour with him; but he had never read his works till he was compili...	Samuel Johnson	Francis Bacon		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; bu...	James Boswell	David Mallet	Life of Francis Bacon, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He praised Grainger's "Ode on Solitude", in Dodsley's "Collection", and repeated, with great energy, the exordium:- ...	Samuel Johnson	James Grainger	'Ode on Solitude'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, a...	James Boswell	John Ranby	Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade
	1700-1799	I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, a...	Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke	James Steuart	Dirleton's Doubts and Questions in the Law of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the Latin name of ...	James Boswell	Florentius Volusenus [pseud.]	De Animi Tranquillitate	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Boswell to Johnson] The alarm of your late illness distressed me but a few hours ; for on the evening o...	James Boswell		London Chronicle	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I mentioned that I had in my possession the Life of Sir Robert Sibbald, the celebrated Scottish antiquary, and founde...	James Boswell	Robert Sibbald	[manuscript Life]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[in a conversation about journals, Boswell said] "And as a lady adjusts her dress before a mirrour, a man adjusts h...	James Boswell	Francis Atterbury	[Funeral Sermon for Lady Cutts]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson. "I have been reading Thicknesse's Travels, which I think are entertaining." Boswell. "What, Sir, a good book...	Samuel Johnson	Philip Thicknesse	Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French Nation	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] was very silent this evening ; and read in a variety of books ; suddenly throwing down one, and taking u...	Samuel Johnson			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regim...	Samuel Johnson	Martin Martin	Description of the Western Isles of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regim...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Morer	Short Account of Scotland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] was for a considerable time occupied in reading "Memoires de Fontenelle" leaning and swinging upon the l...	Samuel Johnson	abbe Trublet	Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de M. de Fontenelle	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles th...	James Boswell	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Sketches of the History of Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...	Samuel Johnson	Francis Atterbury	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...	Samuel Johnson	John Tillotson	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...	Samuel Johnson	Robert South	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...	Samuel Johnson	Seed	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...	Samuel Johnson	John Jortin	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...	Samuel Johnson	George Smallridge	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Clarke	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Ogden	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s...	James Boswell	Samuel Ogden	[Sermons]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery'...	Samuel Johnson	Patrick Delany	Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I found him at home in the morning. He praised Delany's "Observations on Swift ;" said that his book and Lord Orrery'...	Samuel Johnson	John Boyle, 5th earl of Orrery	Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason...	Samuel Johnson	Edward Young		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses....	Samuel Johnson	Oliver Goldsmith	Traveller, The	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses....	Joshua Reynolds	Oliver Goldsmith	Traveller, The	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses....	Charles Fox	Oliver Goldsmith	Traveller, The	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Burns	unknown	Print: Book, Unknown
	1850-1899	'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Allan Ramsay	The Gentle Shepherd	Print: Book, Unknown
	1850-1899	'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Fergusson	Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an...	Samuel Johnson	Aeschylus		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an...	Samuel Johnson	Homer	Iliad and Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an...	James Boswell	Homer	Iliad and Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an...	James Boswell	Homer	Iliad and Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele...	Samuel Johnson	Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele...	Samuel Johnson	William Temple		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if...	Samuel Johnson	Daniel Defoe		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] told us, that he had given Mrs. Montagu a catalogue of all Daniel Defoe's works of imagination; most, if...	James Boswell	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison."...	Samuel Johnson	Robert Dodsley	Collection of Poems by Several Hands	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison."...	Samuel Johnson	Edmund Smith	'Thales; a monody, sacred to the memory of Dr. Pococke. In imitation of Spenser'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated char...	Samuel Johnson	William Robertson	History of America	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon ...	Samuel Johnson	William Dodd	Thoughts in Prison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon ...	James Boswell	William Dodd	Thoughts in Prison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sk...	Thomas Percy	Thomas Pennant	Tour in Scotland in 1769, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Books of Travels having been mentioned, Johnson praised Pennant very highly, as he did at Dunvegan, in the Isle of Sk...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Pennant	Tour in Scotland in 1769, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'JOHNSON. "He's [Pennant] a [italics] Whig [end italics], Sir; a [italics]sad dog [end italics]. (smiling at his own v...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Pennant	Tour in Scotland in 1769	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of "The Natural History of Iceland", from the Danish of Horr...	Samuel Johnson	Niels Horebow	Natural history of Iceland, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Before dinner Dr. Johnson seized upon Mr. Charles Sheridan's "Account of the late Revolution in Sweden", and seemed t...	Samuel Johnson	Charles Sheridan	History of the late revolution in Sweden , A	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Mrs Vyner, a stranger,' to Alfred Tennyson, from River, New South Wales, 1855: 'I fancy a poet's heart must be so ...	Mrs Vyner	Alfred Tennyson		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her ow...	Susan Owen		[light novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her ow...	Susan Owen	John Oxenham [pseud.]	[light novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	James Boswell	Life of Samuel Johnson.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read […] Martin’s "History of France"[…]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Henri Martin	History of France	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Allan Ramsay	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read […] Olivier Basselin […] "On dit qu’il nuit aux yeux; mais seront-ils les maistres? Le vin est gu...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Olivier Basselin	A Son Nez	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Many thanks for your letter and the instalment of Forrester which accompanied it, and which I read with amusement and...	Robert Louis Stevenson	James Walter Ferrier	Forrester	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'The family is all very shaky in health but our motto is now "Al Monte!" in the words of Don Lope, in the play the sis...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Lope de Vega	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	material about Burns	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I read […] Comines […]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Philippe de Commines	Memoires	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Jean Juvenal des Ursins	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b...	Siegfried Sassoon	Thomas Hardy		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b...	Siegfried Sassoon	John Keats		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b...	Siegfried Sassoon	Alfred Edward Housman		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I believe I have not written to you since I saw the end of the Undiscovered Country.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Dean Howells	Undoscovered Country	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'An old idea, first started while I was reading your history of Scotland, has just been revived over your Queen Anne, ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Hill Burton	History of the Reign of Queen Anne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I was pleased to see your quotation from Clough. I used it myself in an approximate form, and with doubtful attributi...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Arthur Hugh Clough	Amours de Voyage	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such pa...	Siegfried sassoon	Henri Barbusse	Under Fire	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Gen. Robertson called and presented me with Hamley's Operations of War in which I am now drowned a thousand fathoms d...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edward Bruce Hamley	Operations of War	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Wel...	Samuel Johnson	Hannah Glass	Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'JOHNSON. "O! Mr. Dilly-you must know that an English Benedictine Monk at Paris has translated "The Duke of Berwick's ...	Samuel Johnson	James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of Berwick	Memoirs of the Marshall Duke of Berwick	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";-...	Samuel Johnson	Soame Jenyns	View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";-...	James Boswell	Soame Jenyns	View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'DR. MAYO (to Dr. Johnson). "Pray, Sir, have you read Edwards, of New England, on "Grace"?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir". BOSWEL...	James Boswell	Jonathan Edwards	[on Grace]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'JOHNSON. "The fallacy of that book [Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"] is, that Mandeville defines neither vices nor b...	Samuel Johnson	Bernard Mandeville	Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very...	James Boswell	William Marshall	Minutes of Agriculture	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Soon after the Honourable Daines Barrington had published his excellent "Observations on the Statutes", Johnson waite...	Samuel Johnson	Daines Barrington	Observations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21st James I.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I told him, that his "Rasselas" had often made me unhappy; for it represented the misery of human life so well, and s...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of a lady's verses on Ireland. MISS REYNOLDS. "Have you seen them, Sir?" JOHNSON. "No, Madam. I have seen a...	Samuel Johnson	Miss Lucan	[translation from Horace]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	' [Boswell lamenting the dificulty of compiling a definitive Johnson bibliography] I once got from one of his friends ...	James Boswell		[list of Johnson's works compiled by Mr Levett]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...	Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli	Torquato Tasso	Gerusalemme Liberata	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...	Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli	Thucydides	History of the Peloponnesian War,	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...	Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli	Homer		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...	Samuel Johnson	Lucretius		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...	Samuel Johnson	Homer		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ...	Samuel Johnson	Thucydides	History of the Peloponnesian War	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote l...	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne	Guido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handso...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Browning	The Inn Album	Print: Book, Unknown
	1850-1899	'It is truly not for nothing that I have read my Buckley.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Theodore William Alois Buckley	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Since my books have come I have read every day ... 100 or thereby pp of Stewart's Highland Regiments.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	David Stewart of Garth	Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlands of Sctland, with Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	John Dryden		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	Alexander Pope		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	George Gordon Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	Edward Young		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but...	Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood	Cowper		Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Alfred Tennyson	Guinevere	Print: Book
	1850-1899	The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Alfred Tennyson	The Maid of Astolat	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Stevenson	Lighthouse Construction and Illumination	Manuscript: Unknown, possibly proof copy
		'We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. "All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained ...	Samuel Johnson	John Whitaker	History of Manchester	Print: Book
		'He [Johnson] said, "I read yesterday Dr. Blair's sermon on Devotion, from the text 'Cornelius, a devout man.' His doc...	Samuel Johnson	Hugh Blair	[Sermon on Devotion]	Print: Unknown
		'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of pun...	Samuel Johnson	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Sketches of the History of Man	Print: Book
		'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of pun...	Samuel Johnson	Jean Chappe d'Auteroche		Print: Book
		'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Johnson	[speeches attributed to Lord Chesterfield]	Print: Book
		'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n...	Samuel Johnson	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Sketches of the History of Man	Print: Book
		'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n...	Samuel Johnson	Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon	History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England	Print: Book
		'This year the Reverend Mr. Horne published his "Letter to Mr. Dunning on the English Particle"; Johnson read it, and ...	Samuel Johnson	George Horne	Letter to Mr Dunning on the English Particle	Print: Unknown
		'He [Johnson] said, "the lyrical part of Horace never can be perfectly translated; so much of the excellence is in the...	Samuel Johnson	Horace	[Odes]	Print: Book
		'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi...	Samuel Johnson	John Milton	Tractate: Of Education
		'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi...	Samuel Johnson	John Locke	Some Thoughts Concerning Education	Print: Unknown
		'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi...	Samuel Johnson	Isaac Watts	[Poems]	Print: Book
		'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] 'I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few ...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Lives of the Poets	Print: proof sheets
		'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca...	James Boswell	Joshua Reynolds	Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy	Print: Book
		'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca...	Catherine II of Russia	Joshua Reynolds	Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy	Print: Book
		'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca...	Samuel Johnson	Joshua Reynolds	Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy	Print: Book
		'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who...	Samuel Johnson	William Tasker	Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain	Manuscript: Unknown
		'My arrival interrupted for a little while the important business of this true representative of Bayes[a clergyman who...	Samuel Johnson	Horace	Carmen Seculare	Manuscript: Unknown
		'[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expu...	Samuel Johnson	Oliver Goldsmith	Vicar of Wakefield	Manuscript: Unknown
		'Talking of the wonderful concealment of the authour of the celebrated letters signed [italics] Junius [end italics]; ...	Samuel Johnson	Junius [pseud.]	Letters of Junius	Print: Serial / periodical
		'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell int...	James Boswell	Richard Allestree	Government of the Tongue, The	Print: Book
		'In the interval between morning and evening service, he [Johnson] endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotion...	James Boswell	Blaise Pascal	Pensees	Print: Book
		'[Johnson said] "King James says in his 'Daemonology', 'Magicians command the devils: witches are their servants. The ...	Samuel Johnson	King James I	Daemonology	Print: Book
		'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, ...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Parnell	Hermit, The	Print: Book
		'On Monday, May 3, I dined with him at Mr. Dilly's; I pressed him this day for his opinion on the passage in Parnell, ...	James Boswell	Thomas Parnell	Hermit, The	Print: Book
		'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR S...	James Boswell	Hugh Blair	[letter concerning Pope and Bolingbroke]	Manuscript: Letter
		'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR S...	Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst	Alexander Pope	Essay on Man	Print: Book
		'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR S...	Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst	Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke	[alleged MS prose version of Pope's 'Essay on Man']	Manuscript: Unknown
		'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo...	Samuel Johnson	Sylvanus	First Book of the Iliad	Print: Book
		'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo...	Samuel Johnson	John Dawson	Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament	Print: Book
		'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo...	Samuel Johnson	Georgii Pasoris	Lexicon Graeco-Latinum in Iesu Christi Domini Nostri N. Testamentum	Print: Book
		'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a lo...	Samuel Johnson	Hesiod		Print: Book
		'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'The bearer of this is Dr. Dunbar, of Aberdeen, who has written and published a very...	Samuel Johnson	James Dunbar	Essays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Cultivated Ages	Print: Book
		'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a...	Samuel Johnson	Theocritus		Print: Book
		'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	Eclogues	Print: Book
		'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to boswell by Bennet Langton] Theocritus is not deserving of very high respect as a...	Samuel Johnson		Sicilian Gossips	Print: Book
		'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Callimachus is a writer of little excellence. The ch...	Samuel Johnson	Callimachus		Print: Book
		'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book. ...	Samuel Johnson	Mattaire	[various works including Latin verses]	Print: Book
		'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writing...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
		'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Of the Preface to Capel's "Shakspeare", he ...	Samuel Johnson	Capel	[Preface to edition of Shakespeare]	Print: Book
		'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'Talking of the "Farce of High Life below S...	Samuel Johnson	James Townley	High Life Below Stairs	Print: Book
		'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] 'One night at The Club he produced a transl...	Samuel Johnson	Lord Elibank	[Epitaph on his Lady]	Manuscript: Unknown
		'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Talking of Gray's "Odes", he said, "They ar...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Gray	Odes	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'Whilst I was at home, I remember, my father would make mee read the Bible; which, through an eager desire of play, an...	Isaac Archer		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'When I was past the worst of my sicknes I would be almost continually reading the Bible or other books . . . I [would...	Isaac Archer		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I was diligent in reading the scriptures every day, and read them once through in a yeare for the 3 first yeares acco...	Isaac Archer		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and...	Isaac Archer	John Wilkins	A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.	Isaac Archer	Jeremy Taylor	unknown	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.	Isaac Archer	John Preston	The Breast-Plate of Faith and Love	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment...	Isaac Archer	William Whately	A Pithie, Short and Methodicall Opening of the Ten Commandments	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment...	Isaac Archer	Lancelot Andrewes	The Moral Law Expounded	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandment...	Isaac Archer	William Perkins	Armilla Aurea, or The Golden Chain	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'My heart was inclined to love and honour my father, especially when, by reading the history of China, I found that th...	Isaac Archer	anon	The Historie of China	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'November 30. I was reading, and meditating upon what I read in Mr Rogers his book of faith, viz. that there must be l...	Isaac Archer	Richard Rogers	Certain Sermons . . . to establish and settle all such as are converted in faith and repentance	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that...	Isaac Archer	Richard Baxter	The Saints Everlasting Rest	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce...	Isaac Archer	Richard Baxter	The Saints Everlasting Rest	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce...	Isaac Archer	Joseph Hall	The Art of Divine Meditation	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'May 6. I began seriously to read Dr Preston's sermons of faith; and that I might understand them the better, and that...	Isaac Archer	John Preston	The Breast-plate of Faith and Love. A treatise wherein the ground and exercises of faith and love . . . is explained. Delivered in 18 Sermons	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'August 26. By reading of Bishop Usher's Body of Divinity, I was convinced of my sinning against the commandments of G...	Isaac Archer	James Ussher	A Body of Divinitie	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'April 3. On the day when [his daughter Mary had been] borne last year, Easter fell; I had made a sermon of Abraham's ...	Isaac Archer		The Bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'February 26. Looking over Mr Bifield's book called The Spirituall Touchstone, I noted severall signes of a good man, ...	Isaac Archer	Nicholas Byfield	The Spiritual Touchstone: or, the Signes of a Godly Man	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zea...	Isaac Archer	Samuel Clarke	The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'December 25. I had somewhat before, by accident, chosen a booke to read, which I had long by mee, but never did read ...	Isaac Archer		[Commentary upon Ephesians: 3]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'September 2. I had bin grievously and causlessly defamed by one from whom I deserved it not; this day he came to quar...	Isaac Archer	Bishop Hall	Sermon on Ephesians 4:30	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci...	Samuel Johnson		[Spanish Plays]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci...	Samuel Johnson		[Greek tragedies]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci...	Samuel Johnson	Homer		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As I recollect, Hammond introduces a hag or witc...	Samuel Johnson	James Hammond	Love Elegies	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literatur...	Samuel Johnson	Clenardus	Greek Grammar	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'Of Dodsley's "Publick Virtue, a Poem", he said,...	Samuel Johnson	Robert Dodsley	Publick Virtue, a Poem	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley...	Samuel Johnson	Robert Dodsley	Cleone, a Tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Otway		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] In the latter part of his life, in order to sati...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas a Kempis	Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley'...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Bentley		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As an instance of the niceness of his taste, tho...	Samuel Johnson	Pindar	Odes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] He apprehended that the delineation of character...	Samuel Johnson	Xenophon	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[…] I keep reading XVth Century […]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	various	[works on the fifteenth century]	Print: Book, Unknown
	1700-1799	[from Bennet Langton's collection of Johnsoniana passed to Boswell in 1780] 'He mentioned with an air of satisfaction ...	Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti	Mr Grove	[articled in 'The Spectator']	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'So easy is his style in these "Lives", that I do not recollect more than three uncommon or learned words; one, when g...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Lives of the Poets	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of...	James Boswell	Herbert Croft	Life of Young	Print: Book
	1700-1799	''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent...	James Boswell	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[Life of Young in 'Lives of the Poets']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent...	Samuel Johnson	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	''It gives me much pleasure to observe, that however Johnson may have casually talked, yet when he sits, as "an ardent...	Samuel Johnson	Edward Young	Love of Fame, The Universal Passion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the...	Samuel Johnson	Zachariah Mudge	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the...	Samuel Johnson	Zachariah Mudge	[notes on the Psalms]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor...	Joshua Reynolds	Zachariah Mudge	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor...	Samuel Johnson	Zachariah Mudge	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor...	Samuel Johnson	Hugh Blair	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Miss Hannah More has admirably described a [italics] Blue-stocking Club [end italics], in her "Bas Bleu", a poem in w...	James Boswell	Hannah More	Bas Bleu; or Conversation	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'that gentleman [Dr Shebbeare], whatever objections were made to him, had knowledge and abilities much above the class...	James Boswell	John Shebbeare	Letters on the English Nation	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o...	James Boswell	William Mason	Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be...	James Boswell	William Whitehead	'Elegy to Lord Villiers'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be...	Samuel Johnson	Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle	Tragedies and Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Ess...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Johnson	Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He talked little to us in the carriage, being chiefly occupied in reading Dr. Watson's second volume of "Chemical Ess...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Watson	Chemical Essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[letter from Johnson to Thomas Astle] Your notes on Alfred appear to me very judicious and accurate, but they are too...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Astle	[notes on the will of King Alfred]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as wel...	Samuel Johnson	George Crabbe	Village, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Soon after this time I had an opportunity of seeing, by means of one of his friends, a proof that his talents, as wel...	James Boswell	George Crabbe	Village, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might ...	Samuel Johnson	James Macpherson	[Ossian poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] gave much praise to his friend, Dr. Burney's elegant and entertaining travels, and told Mr. Seward that ...	Samuel Johnson	Charles Burney	Continental Travels 1770-72	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr. Beattie's "H...	Samuel Johnson	James Beattie	Hermit, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He disapproved much of mingling real facts with fiction. On this account he censured a book entitled "Love and Madnes...	Samuel Johnson		Love and Madness	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Read Stephen’s “Macaulay”.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Leslie Stephen	Hours in a Library, No. XII. − Macaulay	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Lang’s French ballads is neatly enough ticked off.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Andrew Lang	French Peasant Songs.	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied i...	Thomas Carlyle	John A. Carlyle	Thesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (On Diseases Of The Mind)	Manuscript: Degree thesis
	1700-1799	'Sir William Chambers, that great Architect, whose works shew a sublimity of genius, and who is esteemed by all who kn...	Samuel Johnson	William Chambers	Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils : to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'That learned and ingenious Prelate [Dr Hurd] it is well known published at one period of his life "Moral and Politica...	James Boswell	Richard Hurd	Moral and Political Dialogues: being the substance of several conversations between divers eminent persons of the past and present age	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by ...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h...	Samuel Johnson	Delarivier Manley	Adventures of Rivella, or the History of the Author of The New Atalantis	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h...	Samuel Johnson	John Dunton	Life and Errours of John Dunton	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h...	James Boswell	Giovanni Paolo Marana	Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets ...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] There is in "Camden's Remains", an epitaph upon a very wicked man, who was killed by a fall from his h...	Samuel Johnson	William Camden	Remains Concerning Britain	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every ...	Samuel Johnson	Horace	[ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequens	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every ...	James Boswell	Horace		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Lord Hailes had sent him a present of a curious little printed poem, on repairing the University of Aberdeen, by Davi...	Samuel Johnson	David Mallet	[a poem about Aberdeen]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	Eclogues	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev...	Samuel Johnson	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev...	Samuel Johnson	Homer	odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'	Priscilla Hannah Gurney	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read. He said, "Read any of them; they are all good".'	Samuel Johnson	Richard Baxter		Print: Book
	1700-1799	''He spoke often in praise of French literature. "The French are excellent in this, (he would say,) they have a book o...	Samuel Johnson		[French literature]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Baxter's "Reasons of the Christian Religion", he thought contained the best collection of the evidences of the divini...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Baxter	Reasons of the Christian Religion, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I wrote to him, begging to know the state of his health, and mentioned that Baxter's "Anacreon", "which is in the lib...	James Boswell	Anacreon		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A pleasing instance of the generous attention of one of his [Dr Johnson's] friends has been discovered by the publica...	James Boswell	Hester Lynch Thrale	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Earl of Carlisle having written a tragedy, entitled "The Father's Revenge", some of his Lordship's friends applie...	Samuel Johnson	Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle	Father's Revenge, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'In this letter [to Boswell from Mr Mickle] he relates his having, while engaged in translating the "Lusiad", had a di...	Samuel Johnson	Luis Vaz de Camoens	Lusiads	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[william Mickle said] Dr. Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design...	Samuel Johnson	Luis Vaz de Camoens	Lusiads	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the books...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Burton	Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the books...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Baxter	Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'I have just advanced so far towards recovery as to read a pamphlet; and you may rea...	Samuel Johnson	James Boswell	Letter to the People of Scotland on the Present State of the Nation
	1700-1799	'Johnson was very quiescent to-day [17th May 1784] . Perhaps too I was indolent. I find nothing more of him in my note...	James Boswell	Thomas a Kempis	Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He had dined that day [30th May 1784] at Mr. Hoole's, and Miss Helen Maria Williams being expected in the evening, Mr...	Samuel Johnson	Helen Maria Williams	Ode on the Peace, An	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censu...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Newton	Dissertations on the Prophecies Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censu...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Newton	Account of his Own Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Next morning at breakfast, [10th June 1784] he pointed out a passage in Savage's "Wanderer", saying, "These are fine ...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Savage	Wanderer, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I brought a volume of Dr. Hurd the Bishop of Worcester's "Sermons", and read to the company some passages from one of...	James Boswell	Richard Hurd	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the ...	Samuel Johnson		Book of Common Prayer	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the ...	Samuel Johnson		[various books of prayer]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I mentioned Jeremy Taylor's using, in his forms of prayer, "I am the chief of sinners", and other such self-condemnin...	James Boswell	Jeremy Taylor	Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and litanies	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'JOHNSON. "I do not approve of figurative expressions in addressing the Supreme Being; and I never use them. Taylor gi...	Samuel Johnson	Jeremy Taylor	Golden Grove; or a Manuall of daily prayers and litanies	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[present at tea on June 12th was] the Reverend Herbert Croft, who, I am afraid, was somewhat mortified by Dr. Johnson...	Samuel Johnson	Herbert Croft	[Family Discourses]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We may apply to him [Johnson] a sentence in Mr. Greville's "Maxims, Characters, and Reflections"; a book which is ent...	James Boswell	Fulke Greville	Maxims, Characters, and Reflections, Critical, Satyrical, and Moral	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre...	Samuel Johnson	John Milton		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Here I am, here. And very well too. And I read your hymn, which is a very good hymn. And I was delighted with how you...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	‘A Greek Hymn’.	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which sh...	Miss H.	Hector Macneil	Harp, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H'.] along with your volume, of which s...	Miss H.	Hector Macneil	The Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Will and Jean	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have read one half (about 900 pages) of Wodrow's Correspondence, with some improvement but great fatigue.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Wodrow	The Correspondence of the Rev Robert Wodrow	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[speaking of some verses in the notes to Pope's Dunciad, Boswell and Miss Seward wonder who they are by] He was promp...	Samuel Johnson	Mr Lewis	[verses on Pope in notes to the 'Dunciad']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will...	Samuel Johnson		[books of Voyages to the South Seas]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'These Voyages, (pointing to the three large volumes of "Voyages to the South Sea", which were just come out) who will...	James Boswell		[books of Voyages to the South Seas]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Wednesday, June 19, Dr. Johnson and I returned to London; he was not well to-day, and said very little, employing ...	Samuel Johnson	Euripides		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I pointed out to him in the newspaper one of Mr. Grattan's animated and glowing speeches, in favour of the freed...	James Boswell		[a newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'When I pointed out to him in the newspaper one of Mr. Grattan's animated and glowing speeches, in favour of the freed...	Samuel Johnson		[a newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'He censured a writer of entertaining Travels for assuming a feigned character, saying, (in his sense of the word,) "H...	Samuel Johnson	John Moore	[travels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in h...	Samuel Johnson	Joshua Reynolds	Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in h...	Samuel Johnson	Joshua Reynolds	Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to...	Samuel Johnson	Anna Seward	[poem on Lichfield]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to...	Samuel Johnson	Anna Seward	'Elegy on Captain Cook'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to...	James Boswell	Anna Seward	[poem on Lichfield]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account o...	Samuel Johnson	Daniel Defoe	Memoirs of Captain George Carleton	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[letter from Johnson to Dr Brocklesby] Tell Dr. Heberden, that in the coach I read "Ciceronianus" which I concluded a...	Samuel Johnson	Desiderius Erasmus	Ciceronianus	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Letter from Johnson to John Nichols] At Ashbourne, where I had very little company, I had the luck to borrow "Mr. Bo...	Samuel Johnson		[Mr Bowyer's Life]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Still [in his last days] his love of literature did not fail. A very few days before his death he transmitted to his ...	Samuel Johnson		Universal history, from the earliest account of time. Compiled from original authors; and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes, &c. With a general index to the whole	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'During his sleepless nights he amused himself by translating into Latin verse, from the Greek, many of the epigrams i...	Samuel Johnson		Anthologia Graeca	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style. In the "T...	James Boswell	Robert Burrowes	[Essay on Johnson's style]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel...	James Boswell	Henry Mackenzie	[imitation of Johnson]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel...	James Boswell	Vicesimus Knox	Essays Moral and Literary	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel...	James Boswell	John Young	Criticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'when talking on the subject of prayer [to Johnson on his deathbed], Dr. Brocklesby repeated from Juvenal,-- "Oran...	Samuel Johnson	Juvenal	Tenth Satire	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Two very valuable articles, I am sure, we have lost [when Johnson, dying, burnt many of his papers] , which were two ...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	[MS Autobiography]	Manuscript: quarto volumes
	1700-1799	'He seriously entertained the thought of translating "Thuanus". He often talked to me on the subject; and once, in par...	Samuel Johnson	Jacques-Auguste de Thou		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He pressed me to study Dr. Clarke and to read his Sermons. I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. "Because,...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Clarke	Sermons	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jean Jacques Rousseau	La Nouvelle Heloise	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'My Father had made me translate the Life of Cervantes prefixed to Don Quixote from the Spanish by way of exercise whe...	Hester Lynch Salusbury		Life of Cervantes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Some body shewed my Mother the Verses written by Moses Franks upon Mrs Pitt bathing at Brighthelmstone - These says S...	Hester Maria Salusbury	Moses Franks	[verses on Mrs Pitt bathing]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'With regard to little French Epitaphs I have always had an Itch to translate them, & some times have fancied that I c...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[French epitaphs]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale gives an epitaph translated from French by Bennet Langton, and her own translation] 'I remember Johnson p...	Samuel Johnson		[French epitaph translated by Mrs Thrale and Bennet Langton]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce...	Hester Lynch Salusbury	Dr Parker	'To Miss Salusbury'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce...	Hester Lynch Thrale		Greek Anthology	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Dominique Bouhours	La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Anon.	ife and Memoirs of Mr Ephraim Tristram Bates, commonly called Corporal Bates, a broken-hearted Soldier	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Laurence Sterne	ife and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Robert Dodsley	Collection of Poems by Various Hands	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Dryden	Miscellanies	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Boethius	Consolation of Philosophy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Francis Beaumont	Bonduca	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Francis Beaumont	[Plays]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver...	Samuel Johnson	Boethius	Consolation of Philosophy	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'…I got it the same year as I got “The Cities of the World” the most remarkable point about which, I have always...	Richard [Dick] Kharsedji Sorabji	Edwin Hodder	Cities of the World	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My dear Miss Sorabji My husband & I were so distressed at the sad news contained in our paper today that I cannot re...	Sybill Roffes	Theodore Leighton Pennell		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale gives the Spanish quotation] "Quien la ve no la e; quien no la ve, la ve". I think the Jeu de Mots in t...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[a Spanish play]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Marriott wrote the prettiest Verses in French of any Englishman I know'.[she then gives lengthy examples]	Hester Lynch Thrale	Dr Marriott	[French poems]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purpo...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Odyssey	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Tag at the close of the last Act of Cato is written by Mr Pope, and is apparently the worst Tag in the whole Play...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Addison	Cato	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Burney said prettily of James Harris's Book that it was the pourquoi de Pourquoi'.	Charles Burney	James Harris	Philosophical Arrangements	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Lord Corke	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Here is an odd Book come out to prove Falstaff was no Coward, when says Dr Johnson will one come forth to prove Iago ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Maurice Morgan	Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Baretti used to read here with vast Avidity - do you remember all you read said I one day - Scarce a word replyed Bar...	Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Mr Pepys	[verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Gilles Menage	Menagiana	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Wooton	'Ye meaner beauties of the night'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s...	Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti	Henry Wooton	'Ye meaner beauties of the night'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Hester Lynch Salusbury	'Irregular Ode on the English Poets'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read Stephen's admirable, arch-admirable, 'George Eliot', in that Cornhill.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Leslie Stephen	'George Eliot' in Cornhill Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	"Read June 19 1947".	Charles Philips Trevelyan	Frances Trollope	The ward of Thorpe-Combe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b...	Charles Causley	Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b...	Charles Causley	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b...	Charles Causley	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Charles Causley	Florence L. Barclay	Following of the Star, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Charles Causley	Marie Corelli	Sorrows of Satan, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Charles Causley	Olive Higgins Prouty	Stella Dallas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Charles Causley	Joseph Hocking	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Mrs Causley	Joseph Hocking	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Mrs Causley	Joseph Hocking	Rosemary Carew	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Mrs Causley	Silas Hocking	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Mrs Causley	Olive Higgins Prouty	Stella Dallas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Mrs Causley	Marie Corelli	Sorrows of Satan, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...	Mrs Causley	Florence L. Barclay	Following of the Star, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Inspired by the novels of Baroness Orczy about the Scarlet Pimpernel, I wrote a piece about Robespierre. O Robespi...	Charles Causley	Emma Orczy	[Scarlet Pimpernel novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy...	Charles Causley	Siegfried Sassoon	War Poems	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy...	Charles Causley	Robert Graves	[war poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy...	Charles Causley	Edmund Blunden	[war poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy...	Charles Causley	Wilfred Owen	[war poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se...	Charles Causley	George Orwell	Road to Wigan Pier, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se...	Charles Causley	Wystan Hugh Auden		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se...	Charles Causley	Stephen Spender		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se...	Charles Causley	Cecil Day-Lewis		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se...	Charles Causley	Louis MacNeice		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se...	Charles Causley	Christopher Isherwood	Goodbye to Berlin	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale gives her 'Verses on the Fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park'] This trifling performance brought Te...	Thomas Salusbury	Hester Lynch Salusbury	'Verses on the Fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinar...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Sarah Fielding	'To Miss Salusbury'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Dr Johnson] used to mention Harry Fielding's behaviour to her [his sister Sarah] as a melancholy instance of narrown...	Sarah Fielding	Virgil		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale gives her long poem entitled 'Offley Park'] This little poem will be easily seen to have been written by ...	Thomas Salusbury	Hester Lynch Salusbury	'Offley Park'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'he [Mr Hale] was a clever man enough too, valued himself on his Literature, and made some pretty verses. as for Examp...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Hale	[translation of one of Martial's 'Epigrams']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I heard an odd Anecdote to Day of Fordyce the Dissenter, who wrote a few pretty little Essays lately call'd Sermons t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Fordyce	Sermons to Young Women	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'there came out a Pamphlet setting forth the Felicity & Benefit of a numerous Offspring; some Arch Body of his acquain...	James Stonhouse		[pamphlet on benefits of children]
	1900-1945	"CPT read this aloud to PJD December 1957, the last book we read before his death in Jan 1958. He had not read it sinc...	Charles Philips Trevelyan	Xenophon	Anabasis	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'By Swinburne's conversion, I meant no reference to his divagations about 'Rizpah', which I did not honour with perusa...	Robert Louis Stevenson		Fortnightly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'You are right about that adorable book; F. and I are in a world, not ours; but pardon me, as far as sending on goes, ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Carlyle	Reminiscences	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerique”. In the la...	Robert Louis Stevenson		Illustrated London News	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	The Rev. Charles Cockin to Alfred Tennyson, November 1868: 'In reading an old translation of Du Bartas I was struck...	Charles Cockin	Joshua Sylvester	'The Woodman's Beare'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Rogers used often to read to him passages of his writin...	Samuel Rogers	Samuel Rogers		Unknown
	1850-1899	'I have just seen the Academy of April 9.'	Robert Louis Stevenson		The Academy: A Monthly Record of Literature, Learning, Science and Art	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edmund Gosse	'Timasetheos' in The Cornhill Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Addington Symonds	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edmund Gosse	English Odes	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I used to like following Verses vastly upon Garrick and Barry's playing King Lear a l'envie till I heard from good au...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[verses on Garrick's Lear]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Giuseppe Pecio	[sonnet to Voltaire]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'I saw there [at Hampton] likewise a sweet pretty little Copy of Verses from a Gentleman to his Wife on the Subject of...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[verses to a wife, about a penknife]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'he [Herbert Lawrence] wrote some pretty Verses and said some clever Things and I have a Loss of his Acquaintance. The...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Herbert Lawrence	[poems]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Gray	[Odes]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Ode to Indifference is a most superior Piece of elegant Writing The Occasion of it was however dreadfully unhappy...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Frances Greville	Ode to Indifference	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Cumberland	[Odes]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'In a Conversation the King of Prussia had once with Marshal Keith the latter quoted Scripture: why Keith have you bee...	James Francis Edward Keith		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Ben Jonson	Every Man in his Humour	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[James Mathias was on summer vacation and] when he came back my Father asked him what Books he had read - I read says...	James Mathias	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille (Boisgobey)	L'Equipage du Diable (Equipage of the Devil)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Debans, the Dead Man's Shoes fellow has also disgraced himself in a work entitled Baron John.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Camille Debans	Le Baron Jean (Baron John)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Gustave Flaubert	Bouvard et Pecuchet	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Who did the Athenaeum I know not, but it is very kind.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	A J Butler	Review in Athenaeum	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The swollen, childish and pedantic vanity that moved the said revisers to put 'bring' for 'lead', is a sort of litera...	Robert Louis Stevenson		Revised Version of New Testament	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lang's Library is very pleasant reading.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Andrew Lang	The Library	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Grant Robertson	Kurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of Impressions in Three Campaigns under General Roberts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[having been searching for evidence of the truth of Christianity, Johnson] recollecting a Book he had once picked up ...	Samuel Johnson	Hugo Grotius	De veritate religionis Christianae	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He [Johnson] was just nine Years old when having got the play of Hamlet to read in his Father's Kitchen, he read on v...	Samuel Johnson	William Shakespeare	Hamlet	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'one Day in the Year 1768 I saw some Verses with his name in a Magazine these are they [the poem follows] I thought th...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[verses printed in the Gentleman's Magazine]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S...	Samuel Johnson	Richard Steele	[Essays]	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Gray		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S...	Samuel Johnson	William Mason		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h...	Samuel Johnson	Jonathan Swift		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham	Rehearsal, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc...	Samuel Johnson	George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham	Rehearsal, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'To Richardson as a Writer he gave the highest Praises, but mentioning his unquenchable Thirst after Applause That Man...	Samuel Johnson	Samuel Richardson		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S...	Samuel Johnson	Edward Young		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S...	Samuel Johnson	John Dryden		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Dryden		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Young		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Burney likewise has experienced his [Johnson's] sportive Humour; when he shewed him his Book about Musick and enquire...	Samuel Johnson	Charles Burney	History of Music	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He had in his Youth been a great Reader of Mandeville, and was very watchful for the Stains of original corruption bo...	Samuel Johnson	Bernard Mandeville		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas Gray		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder...	Samuel Johnson	William Mason		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'A propos to Gardening he once advised me to buy myself some famous Book upon the Subject, and read it says he attenti...	Samuel Johnson		[book on gardening]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu...	Samuel Johnson	Jonathan Swift	History Of the Four last years Of the Queen	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Fergu...	Samuel Johnson	Adam Ferguson	Essay on the History of Civil Society	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'As my Peace has never been disturbed by the [italics] soft Passion [end italics], so it seldom comes into my head to ...	Hester Lynch Thrale		Huetania	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Churchill	Prophecy of Famine, a Scots Pastoral	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Churchill	Ghost, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ...	Samuel Johnson	Charles Churchill	Ghost, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'that Piety which dictated the serious Papers in the Rambler will be for ever remembred [sic], for ever I think - reve...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special in...	James Martineau	James Martineau	'Is there any Axiom of Causation?'	Unknown
	1850-1899	James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special in...	Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol	Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol	'What is Death?'	Unknown
	1850-1899	Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart., to Alfred Tennyson, 20 August 1875: 'As a great admirer of your genius, I eagerly rea...	Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart.	Alfred Tennyson	Queen Mary	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Miss Ritchie was staying at Farringford when we came back from our foreign [Italian] travels. To her he [Tennyson] dw...	Miss Ritchie	Catullus		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When I shewed him [Johnson] his Character next day - for he would see it; he said it was a very fine Piece of Writing...	Samuel Johnson	Hester Lynch Thrale	[MS 'character' of Johnson]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'of James Harris Dedication to his Hermes he said that tho' but 14 Lines long, there were 6 Grammatical faults in it'....	Samuel Johnson	James Harris	[Dedication in] Hermes: or, a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Language and Universal Grammar	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'of Elphinstone's specimen of Martial he [Johnson] said, there was too much Folly in them for Madness, and too much Ma...	Samuel Johnson	Martial	Epigrams	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da...	Hester Maria Thrale	Metastasio [pseud.]	Adriano	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I shall transcribe some Verses of Doctor Burney's on the same unworthy Subject [herself]; on which Verses Johnson mad...	Samuel Johnson	Charles Burney	[poem about Mrs Thrale]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Dr Burney] could write admirable Verses had he Leisure and Inclination so to do. He has shewn me in Confidence a lit...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	[verses modelled on 'The Dunciad']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading -...	Susan Thrale		[a story book]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading -...	Susan Thrale	James Beattie	Essays on Poetry and Music	Print: Book
	1700-1799	''15:Jan: 1778 Mr Johnson told me today that he had translated Anacreon's Dove, & as they were the first Greek Verses ...	Samuel Johnson	Anacreon	Dove	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Jones	[MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'it was but last Week I read a new [sic] York Advertisement of Perfumery for the Ladies, Anodyne Necklaces for Teethin...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[a New York newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in th...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Grainger	'Solitude: An Ode'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in th...	Samuel Johnson	James Grainger	Sugar Cane, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Tobias Smollett		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Fielding		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Richardson		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon	Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Daniel Defoe	Journal of the Plague Year	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Arthur Murphy	Grecian Daughter, the: A tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Irene: A Historical Tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Addison	Cato	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Lillo	London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Jones	Earl of Essex, The, a tragedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have heard Johnson say that there was no Series of Verses in any English Tragedy so sublime & striking as the passa...	Samuel Johnson	William Congreve	Mourning Bride, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'One could not bear to read a Page of the Gentleman Instructed now, & yet what a favourite Book it was - can that ever...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Darrell	Gentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Dr Parker] shewed me a little Poem written to himself by an old Clergyman of sixty nine Years old just upon the Acce...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[verses written to Dr Parker by a clergyman]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send...	Hester Lynch Salusbury	John Milton		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immed...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Parnell		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immed...	Sophia Streatfield	Hester Lynch Thrale	[translation of Voltaire's 'A Madame de Chatelet']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Hawkesworth	Rival, The	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Hawkesworth	[Ode on life]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Hawkesworth	Amurath	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Hawkesworth	Adventurer, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Richardson		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jean Jacques Rousseau		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Tobias Smollett	Ferdinand Count Fathom	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charlotte Lennox	Female Quixote, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Fielding	Joseph Andrews	Print: Book
		'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was...	Charles Burney	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
		'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was...	Samuel Johnson	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
		'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
		'I was reading today where Menage tells a story of a notable fellow in his native town Angers, who was such a bustler ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Gilles Menage	Menagiana	Print: Book
		'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough,...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	[verses on death]	Manuscript: Unknown
		'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough,...	Samuel Johnson	Charles Burney	[verses on death]	Manuscript: Unknown
		'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Year...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Sketches of the History of Man	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Oliver Goldsmith	History of the Earth and Animated Nature	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Thomson	Seasons, The - 'Spring'	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Thomson	Seasons, The - 'Summer'	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Irene: A Historical Tragedy	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	Histoire Naturelle	Print: Book
		'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fe...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Pennant	History of Quadrupeds.	Print: Book
		'[Having given her verses 'A Tale for the Times'] This wild irregular Measure is a sort of Favourite with me, I learnt...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Vanbrugh	Esop; a comedy	Print: Book
		'I could not help thinking the other Day as I read the Epigram of Martial ending thus Iam dic Posthume de tribus Ca...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Martial	Epigrams	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Young	Conjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift	The Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea Project	Print: Serial / periodical
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Southern	Fatal marriage, The; or, the innocent adultery	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Lillo	Fatal Curiosity: A True Tragedy of Three Acts	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Vanbrugh	Provoked Husband, The	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Congreve	Old Batchelor, The	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Addison	Cato	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Irene: a Historical Tragedy	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Congreve	Mourning Bride, The	Print: Book
		'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin...	Samuel Johnson	William Congreve	Mourning Bride, The	Print: Book
		'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha...	Hester Lynch Thrale		'Love Letter from Captain Roach to Mrs Rudd'	Manuscript: Unknown
		'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Mason	'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers'	Print: Unknown
		'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	Moliere [pseud.]	Le Bourgeois gentilhomme	Print: Book
		'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	John Dryden	Song for St. Cecilia's Day	Print: Book
		'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	Alexander Pope	Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'These brave words of Scott remind me of the song in The Antiquary, which I have just re-read ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	The Antiquary	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The two middle verses of that song have haunted me ever since I was a child and used to go up into the dark drawing-r...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1800-1849	I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a qu...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Carlyle	Proofs	Print: Proofs
	1850-1899	'I like your "Byron" well ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	Athenaeum, 'The Poetry of Byron'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I liked your ... "Berlioz" better.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	Cornhill Magazine 'Hector Berlioz: a Biography'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brothe...	Joseph Fry	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I rather felt this morning it would have been right for me to read the Bible again, and stop George Dilwyn and Joseph...	Joseph Fry	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school ro...	Sophia de C	[n/a]	Bible (New Testament)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'We next pr...	Sophia de C	[n/a]	Bible (New Testament)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 24 May 1817: 'I read to...	Sophia de C	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893): 'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began...	Thomas Hirst	Alfred Tennyson	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Letter from brother-in-law, T.F. Buxton, to E. Fry, Northrepps, 1 Dec 1828: 'I very quiet day yesterday, and a long ti...	Thomas Fowell Buxton	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry an...	James	[n/a]	Bible (New Testament)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breer...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edmund Spenser	Shepheardes Calendar, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m...	Hester Lynch Thrale	James Grainger	[unknown poem praising Young]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m...	Miss Cooper	Edward Young	Night Thoughts	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'her [Fanny Burney's] Scoundrel Bookseller having advertised the Sylph along with it [Evelina] lately, and endeavourin...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire	The Sylph: a Novel	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpon...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Ben Jonson	Volpone	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have this Moment put into my Hand a Poem concerning the Geranium Flower; tis not very long, and tis I think exceedi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Andrew Erskine	[a poem on a Geranium]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I had an Uncle Cornelius Ford my Mother's Brother continued he [Johnson] who on a Journey stopt to read an Inscriptio...	Cornelius Ford		[an inscription]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partialit...	Charles Burney	Frances Burney	The Witlings	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partialit...	Frances Burney	Frances Burney	The Witlings	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Thomas Burnet	Telluris Theoria Sacra	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Whiston	Astronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great Year MDCCXXXVI. Particularly of the Late Comet, Which was foretold by Sir Isaac Newton	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Mrs Thrale proposes writing a comedy, but] as I have not a Spark of Originality about me, I must take a French Model...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Philippe Nericault Destouches	L'Homme Singulier	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Qua...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[ladies memorandum books]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & e...	Hester Lynch Thrale			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner of Potter]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Aeschylus		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses...	Samuel Johnson	Aeschylus		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses...	Samuel Johnson	Euripides		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Burney has translated a provencale Ballad written by Thibout King of Navarre 500 Years ago, into the prettiest Englis...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	[translation of a provencale ballad]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Law	Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Rambler, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'2 February 1780.] Here is Dr Pepys come with a Manuscript of Dr Spence's for Johnson's Use & Inspection now he is wri...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Spence	Anecdotes	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Lord Bolingbroke said he learned Spanish so as to read & write Letters in it with only three Weeks Application, - Bar...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Spence	Anecdotes	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'When I read the Character of Cambray in this Collection, I could not keep from falling on my Knees to give God thanks...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Spence	Anecdotes	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The two Stories of Marlboro's Avarice are very capital: Sr Godfrey's Dream is [a] good Thing too - they are all too l...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Spence	[Anecdotes]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like ...	Hester Lynch Thrale			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Eloisa to Abelard	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	Comus: A Masque	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Matthew Prior	Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Dryden	'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Essay on Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Abraham Cowley	Life and Fame	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think o...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Critic, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	School for Scandal, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Colman	Clandestine Marriage, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	Lives of the Poets	Print: proof sheets
	1700-1799	'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Matthew Prior	Alma	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Nicholas Rowe	Fair Penitent, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Philip Massinger	Fatal Dowry, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Bruce of Abyssinia has been greatly ridiculed, particularly for trying to make the World believe that the people in A...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[a book of travels dealing with Abyssinia]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Rape of the Lock, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Dunciad, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Nicolas Vauquelin Des Yveteaux	[a sonnet]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Walter Pope	Old Mans Wish, The	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Lillo	Elmerick; Or Justice Triumphant	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil...	Hester Lynch Thrale		Chevræana, ou Diverses Pensées	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given]	Hester Lynch Thrale	Anacreon	Anacreon to himself	Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was shewed a curious Thing today - a Letter written by Lord Strafford to his Daughter three Weeks before his Execut...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Lord Strafford	[letter to his daughter, 1641]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the Wor...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Fulke Greville	Maxims, Characters, and Reflections	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctr Burney has translated the famous old French Chanson Militaire - [italics] all about Roland [end italics]: how h...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	[translation of a French Chanson]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Fo...	Hester Lynch Thrale	George Psalmanazar	[articles contributed to the 'Universal History']	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's sev...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Joseph Sorbiere	Sorberiana	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses,...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	[MS of his translations of Homer]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight...	Susanna Arabella Thrale	Vincent de Voiture	Letters	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Johnson believes nothing - the Hurricane which has torn Barbadoes to pieces, & is related so pathetically in the G...	Hester Lynch Thrale		Gazette	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[prose works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Joseph Addison	[prose works]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Dunciad, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Edward Young	Love of Fame, The Universal Passion	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Abraham Cowley		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jean de La Bruyere		Print: Book
	1800-1849	From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall...	Francis Turner Palgrave	Alfred Tennyson	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall...	Francis Turner Palgrave	Alfred Tennyson	The Princess	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'A thousand thanks for Johnson who is a brick.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Johnson	A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When one reads in Fenelon's last Letter to the Kings Confessor "Quand j'aurai l'honneur de voir Dieu, je lui demander...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Francois Fenelon	[Letters]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Burney has permitted me to write out this Imitation of an old French Tale written in the Year 1548. he has alw...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Charles Burney	'St Peter and the Minstrel, a Tale'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Congreve	Way of the World, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Shakespeare	Henry V	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Piozzi] brought me an Italian sonnet written in his praise by Marco Capello, which I instantly translated of course:...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Marco Capello	[sonnet about Piozzi]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising up...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Odell	[verses on Franklin's stove]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising up...	Samuel Johnson	Jonathan Odell	[verses on Franklin's stove]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh...	Hester Maria Thrale	Jonathan Swift		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was however turning over Horace yesterday to look for the Expression [italics] tenui fronte [end italics] in Vindic...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Horace	'8th Ode'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Giovanni Povoleri	[a sonnet on love and friendship]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Abbate Buondelmonte	[a sonnet]	Unknown
	1700-1799	'Mrs John Hunter, Wife to the famous Anatomist has made a Base to the Tune [reputed to be North American Indian]; & se...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Anne Hunter	'North American Death Song'	Unknown
	1700-1799	'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa Who...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Dominique Bouhours	La maniere de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit. Dialogues.	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa Who...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift	'Cadenus and Vanessa'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Pastorals	Manuscript: book
	1700-1799	'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	'Third pastoral'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Virgil	'Second Eclogue'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Two days ago somebody shew'd me a Song written by the Duchess of Devonshire which began thus Boy! bring my Flow'rs...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire	[a Song]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Fanny Burney's] new Novel called "Cecilia" is the Picture of Life such as the Author sees it: while therefore this M...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Frances Burney	Cecilia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its In...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Alexander Pope	Eloisa to Abelard	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Robert Burton	Anatomy of Melancholy, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	'L'Allegro'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Milton	'Il Penseroso'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Richard Savage	Wanderer, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Harrison	'The Medicine, A Tale - for the Ladies'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[a story]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Shakespeare	Taming of the Shrew, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Wyndham and Johnson were talking of Miss Burney's new Novel - 'Tis far superior to Fielding's, says Mr Johnson; her C...	Samuel Johnson	Frances Burney	Cecilia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) ...	Brooke Foss Westcott	Alfred Tennyson	In Memoriam	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Bishop Westcott to Hallam Tennyson: 'When "In Memoriam" appeared, I felt (as I feel if possible more strongly now) ...	Brooke Foss Westcott	Alfred Tennyson	In Memoriam	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerisque”. In the l...	Robert Louis Stevenson		The Graphic	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor...	Sissy Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alterat...	Thomas Carlyle	Unknown	Unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the ...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Carlyle	Title page and preface of 'German Romance'	Print: Title page and prefaceManuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'Don't read noble old Fred's Pirate anyhow; it is written in sand with a salt spoon: arid, feeble, vain, tottering pro...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Frederick Marryat	The Pirate	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyag...	Thomas Carlyle	Immanuel Kant	The Critique of Pure Reason	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I was very much obliged by your copy of Doering's Jean Paul and the manuscript sent along with it; whch tho' too late...	Thomas Carlyle	JMH Doring	Jean Paul Richters Leben	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In reference to 'N.A.'s' notes on young Rob Roy, I should like to ask the writer if he will kindly inform us what aut...	Robert Louis Stevenson	N. A.	'Young Rob Roy' in Stirling Observer	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Sup...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Virgil	Aeneid	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	John Moore	View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I ...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Jonathan Swift	Tale of a Tub, A	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Gr...	Hester Lynch Thrale	Samuel Johnson	[translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simp...	Hester Lynch Thrale	William Derham	Physico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr James brought me some pretty Verses about Melancholy written by a Boy; Mr James tasting Verses in praise of Melanc...	Hester Lynch Thrale		'To Melancholy'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[Mr Lysons] brought me these Old Verses one Day, I think they are to be found in a book called Paradise of dainty Dev...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[verses beginning 'Pass gentelle Thought to her whom I love best']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'The Story of Bond expiring in the character of Lusignan is prettily told in some of the French Memoires, but one had ...	Hester Lynch Thrale		[French Memoirs]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter o...	Sissy Castieau	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Look here, my fame is even more complete than I had dreamed of. Get the "Spectators" for August 5th and 12th; and you...	Robert Louis Stevenson	anon	Review article; and 'Husbands and Wives'.	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...	Sissy Castieau	[n/a]	Bible (New Testament)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have found […] a "Courant" which was speedily dismembered and has been read eagerly down to the Theatre Advertise...	Robert Louis Stevenson		Le Courant	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'In the Evening went again to the Club, found no one there but Marcus Clarke & Shillingham. Had a chat with them. Marc...	Marcus Clarke	Marcus Clarke	The Jolly Beggars	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Your "Daniel Deronda" is uncommonly jolly, and right. I don’t know that you’ve ever written anything which please...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sydney Colvin	Review of George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'heard Harry & Sissy read'	Sissy Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standin...	James Hogg		Shorter Catechism	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Next year my parents took me home during the winter quarter, and put me to school with a lad named Ker, who was teach...	James Hogg		Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'All this while [between the ages of 7 and 15] I neither read nor wrote; nor had I access to any book save the Bible. ...	James Hogg		Bible [Psalms]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got...	James Hogg	Allan Ramsay	Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got...	James Hogg	Henry the Minstrel	Life and Adventures of Sir William Wallace	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The schoolhouse, however, being almost at our door, I had attended it for a short time, and had the honour of standin...	James Hogg		Bible [Proverbs]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewe...	James Hogg		[newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799	'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewe...	James Hogg		[theological books]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewe...	James Hogg	Thomas Burnet	Sacred Theory of the Earth	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr Laidlaw having a number of valuable books, which were all open to my perusal, I about this time began to read with...	James Hogg		unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[regarding a poetry contest with his brother William, himself and another, Hogg says of William's poem] it was far su...	James Hogg	William Hogg	'Urania's Tour'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'	Sissy Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[on receiving the first printed copies of his poems] no sooner did the first copy come to hand, than my eyes were ope...	James Hogg	James Hogg	[a pamphlet of poems]
	1700-1799	'I was very anxious to read it ['The Queen's Wake'] to some person of taste; but no one would either read it, or liste...	James Hogg	James Hogg	'The Queen's Wake'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'On the appearance of Mr Wilson's "Isle of Palms", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scen...	James Hogg	John Wilson	Isle of Palms, and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[on a visit to his publisher, Constable] I read the backs of some books on his shelves, then spoke of my poem; but he...	James Hogg			Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I suffered unjustly in the eyes of the world with regard to that tale ['The Brownie of Bodsbeck'], which was looked o...	James Hogg	Walter Scott	Old Mortality	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I admired many of his [Wordsworth's] pieces exceedingly, though I had not then seen his ponderous "Excursion"'.	James Hogg	William Wordsworth	[poems]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat...	James Hogg	William Wordsworth	[poems]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat...	James Hogg	William Wordsworth	Excursion, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat...	James Hogg	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1700-1799	'There is nothing in nature that you may not get a quotation out of Wordsworth to suit, and a quotation too that breat...	James Hogg		Old Testament	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Young as he [Allan Cunnigham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his j...	James Hogg	Allan Cunningham		Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his ...	James Hogg	Thomas Mouncey		Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a...	James Hogg	Allan Cunningham	[imitations of Ossian]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a...	James Hogg	R.H. Cromek	Remains Of Nithsdale And Galloway Song	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak p...	Sissy Castieau	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.'	James Boswell	John Gay	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my ...	James Boswell	David Hume	History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions'	James Boswell	David Hume	History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions'	James Boswell	John Dryden	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br...	James Boswell	[n/a]	The North Briton	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br...	James Boswell	[unknown]	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'This forenoon I read the history of Joseph and his brethren, which melted my heart and drew tears from my eyes. It is...	James Boswell	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me ...	James Boswell	David Hume	History of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening'	James Boswell	[n/a]	The North Briton	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion'	James Boswell	[n/a]	[Church service]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish'	James Boswell	Joseph Addison	The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagern...	James Boswell	[unknown]	Lives of the convicts	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-...	Thomas Carlyle	Unknown	Unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho...	Mary Augusta Ward	Mark Pattison	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho...	Mary Augusta Ward	Mark Pattison	'Confession of Faith'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ...	Mary Augusta Ward	William Gladstone	Gleanings Of Past Years	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ...	Mary Augusta Ward	Henri Frederic Amiel	Journal Intime	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about "Robert Elsmere"] If you do speak of him [T...	Mary Augusta Ward	T.H. Green	Witness of God and Faith, The: Two Lay Sermons	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice t...	Mary Augusta Ward		Gospels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have n...	Mary Augusta Ward		[books on 18th century Lancashire life]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars ...	Mary Augusta Ward		[Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter from T.H. Huxley to Mrs Ward] You will think I have taken my time about thanking you for "David Grieve"; but ...	Thomas Henry Huxley	Mary Augusta Ward	David Grieve	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[during a riddle game at Mrs Ward's home, Stocks] Lord Acton, who had that day devoured ten books of Biblical critici...	John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton		[biblical criticism]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the ...	Mary Augusta Ward		[blue books of statistics]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the sa...	Mary Augusta Ward		[papers on Factory Law]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: Charles Collins has been so busy with his L...	Charles Collins	Johannes Secundus	Liber Basiorum (Book of Kisses)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b...	John Wilson Croker	Virgil	Aeneid I	Print: Book
	1700-1799	John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b...	John Wilson Croker	Virgil	Eclogues I	Print: Book
	1700-1799	John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856: 'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b...	John Wilson Croker	Alexander Pope	translations from Homer	Print: Book
	1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to his wife, 28 July 1850: 'After dinner I read some of the letters written by Charles Long and ...	John Wilson Croker	Charles Long and Lord Mulgrave	letters to Lord Lonsdale	Unknown
	1800-1849	Spencer Perceval to John Wilson Croker, 11 November 1810: 'I thank you for the sight of H[uskisson]'s pamphlet. I h...	Spencer Perceval	William Huskisson	'The Question Concerning the Depreciation of our Currency Stated and Examined'
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to his wife, 20 July 1815: '[General] Becker showed us a copy of Buonaparte's letter to the Prin...	John Wilson Croker	Napoleon Bonaparte	letter to the Prince Regent	Manuscript: Unknown, Copied.
	1500-1599	'then I hard Mrs Brutnell Read of the Herball tell supper time'	Mrs Brutnell	William Turner	New herball	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816: 'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold III	Unknown
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon, Lord Byron		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...	John Wilson Croker	Walter Scott		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...	John Wilson Croker	John Dryden		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...	John Wilson Croker	Alexander Pope		Print: Book
	1800-1849	From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been ...	George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales	Jonathan Swift	works (including correspondence)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been ...	George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales	Mrs Delany	letter containing account of Royal visit	Manuscript: Letter, Copied.
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to William Blackwood, 24 August 1819: 'I have received your last number [...] As a series of ess...	John Wilson Croker		Blackwood's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 15 September 1819: 'Thank you for the perusal of the letter; it is not very good...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review'	Unknown
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I am agreeably disappointed by finding "Don Juan" very little off...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Don Juan: cantos I-II	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I had Crabbe's tales with me on shipboard, and they were a treasu...	John Wilson Croker	Crabbe	Tales	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Robert Peel, 24 December 1821: 'I have seen in the Courier the accounts from the Irish papers...	John Wilson Croker		Courier	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you hav...	Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool	Horace Walpole	letters to Lord Hertford	Unknown
	1800-1849	Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'Who is Mr. Prior? I have read his "Life of Burke" with the g...	Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool	Prior	Life of Burke	Unknown
	1850-1899	'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy...	Mary Augusta Ward	Rudyard Kipling		Print: Book
	1800-1849	From John Wilson Croker's Note Books, 24 October 1825: 'The first time I ever saw [Germaine de Stael] was at dinner...	John Wilson Croker	Camille Desmoulins	journal	Unknown
	1850-1899	'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy...	Mary Augusta Ward	Robert Louis Stevenson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Hel...	Mary Augusta Ward		[Catholic literature]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house...	Mary Augusta Ward		[Catholic literature]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me pe...	Mary Augusta Ward		[Catholic literature]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [o...	Mary Augusta Ward		Civilta Cattolica	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of...	Mary Augusta Ward		Tribuna	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle...	Mary Augusta Ward	François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle...	Mary Augusta Ward	Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, R...	Mary Augusta Ward	Alfred von Harnack		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ...	Janet Penrose Ward	Adolf Julicher	An Introduction to the New Testament	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ...	Mary Augusta Ward	Adolf Julicher	An Introduction to the New Testament	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ...	Mary Augusta Ward	Adolf Julicher	An Introduction to the New Testament	Print: Unknown, page proofs
	1900-1945	'[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end...	Mary Augusta Ward	Thomas Arnold	[private papers]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ...	Mary Augusta Ward	George Meredith		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...	Mary Augusta Ward	George Meredith	Richard Feverel	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...	Mary Augusta Ward	George Meredith	Egoist, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...	Mary Augusta Ward	George Meredith	Vittoria	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...	Mary Augusta Ward	George Meredith	Beauchamp's Career	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...	Mary Augusta Ward	Herbert Spencer		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof ...	Mary Augusta Ward		[newspaper interviews with herself]	Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs
	1900-1945	'[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who ...	Mary Augusta Ward	Julia Ward Howe	Reminiscences	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [e...	Mary Augusta Ward	George Bancroft	History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...	Mary Augusta ward	Emile Faguet	Dix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...	Mary Augusta ward	Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...	Mary Augusta ward	Walter Raleigh	Wordsworth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...	Mary Augusta ward	Homer		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...	Mary Augusta ward	Horace		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...	Mary Augusta Ward	Euripides		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...	Mary Augusta Ward	Aeschylus	Agamemnon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'.	Mary Augusta Ward	Wlliam James		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'	Mary Augusta Ward	George Tyrrell		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'	Mary Augusta Ward	Henri Bergson		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r...	Mary Augusta Ward	William James		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r...	Mary Augusta Ward		bible	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'after, tell night, I kept Companie with Mr Hoby who reed a whill of Cartwrights book to me'	Thomas Hoby	Thomas Cartwright	A Replye to an Answere made of M. Doctor Whitegifte agaynst the Admonition to the Parliament	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'and, after, Hard Mr Hoby read of perkins tell all most 5 a clock'	Thomas Hoby	William Perkins	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Charles Baxter	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	Sir Henry Ellis to John Wilson Croker, from the British Museum, 29 October 1829: 'I understand from Mr. Murray that...	Samuel Johnson	Horace		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833: 'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at...	John Wilson Croker		report of death of Lord Exmouth	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Sir Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker, 29 September 1833: 'Strange as it may seem, I have not read nor have I seen ...	Sir Robert Peel	Lord Brougham and others	'The Reformed Ministry and the Reformed Parliament' (extracts)	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to his wife, whilst in Oxford for the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the U...	John Wilson Croker			Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Sir Robert Peel, 7 October 1835: 'I am glad you like Robespierre. It is only an essay, which ...	Sir Robert Peel	John Wilson Croker	article on Robespierre	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Sir W. Follett to John Wilson Croker, from Paris, 6 October 1840: 'We saw in Galignani yesterday that George Giffar...	Sir W. Follett		Galignani['s Messenger?]	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe'	Thomas Hoby	William Perkins	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Having asked Lord Rosebery for a Preface to her "England's Effort"] Knowing that he was never strong, she fully expe...	Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery	Mary Augusta Ward	England's Effort	Print: proofs
	1900-1945	'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from...	Mary Augusta Ward			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[letter from General Hastings Anderson to Janet Trevelyan] What strikes me most in your mother's book ["Fields of Vic...	Hastings Anderson	Mary Augusta Ward	Fields of Victory	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'then Mr Hoby reed to me and an other gentlewoman Came to me, with whom I talked tell 5 a Clocke'	Thomas Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'And of all the men who write today it is only Hueffer who writes for love[...]. I took up the "H[eart]of [the]C[ountr...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern Land	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.'	Joseph Conrad	Norman Douglas	The Island of Typhoeus	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to J. H. Jesse, 5 December 1843: 'I am much obliged by your kind attention in sending me your Se...	John Wilson Croker	J. H. Jesse	(apparently) Selwyn and His Contemporaries	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846: 'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[...	John Gibson Lockhart	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	The New Timon	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847: 'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, whic...	John Wilson Croker	anon	'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel'	Unknown
	1800-1849	Sir James Graham to John Wilson Croker, 18 September 1847: 'I have read in the newspapers with great regret, but wi...	Sir James Graham		report of death of Lady Follett	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Charles Arbuthnot to John Wilson Croker, 7 December 1848: 'That I had the greatest regard and affection for my depa...	Charles Arbuthnot	C. W. Vane, Marquess of Londonderry, editor	Correspondence, Dispatches, and other papers of Viscount Castlereagh, vols 1 and 2	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Bishop of Exeter to John Wilson Croker, 13 April 1849: 'I was not satisfied with one reading of your article. ...	Bishop of Exeter	John Wilson Croker	article on Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: '...	John Gibson Lockhart	Thomas Babington Macaulay	History of England, vols 1 and 2	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: '...	John Gibson Lockhart	Grote	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham, 22 February 1853: 'I fear that the Government of the country is likely to beco...	John Wilson Croker	Benjamin Disraeli	'Buckinghamshire speeches'	Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Charlotte Smith		Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Maria Edgeworth		Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Theodore Hook	Gilbert Gurney	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Charles Dickens	short fictions	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849 1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...	John Wilson Croker	Charles Dickens	novels	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	John Wilson Croker to John Murray jr, 14 February 1857: 'I have been so very ill as to have been unable until yeste...	John Wilson Croker		article on Duke of Wellington	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspape...	Thomas Carlyle	Signed as 'Q'	Review of 'German Romance' by Thomas Carlyle	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Lady Charlotte stopped a few days with friends near Winchester, and while there her husband read in The Times '"[....	Charles Schreiber		article on new method of iron production	Print: Newspaper
	1600-1699	'was so ill that I Could not goe to the publecke exercises, but Mr Hoby reed in the morninge to me and praied with me'	Thomas Hoby	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks ever so much for the book. One would want a long and warm talk about it.To set down the several trains of thou...	Joseph Conrad	H. G.(Herbert George) Wells	New Words for Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socialism	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very we...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	The Fifth Queen Crowned	Manuscript: Unknown
	1600-1699	'after I Came home Mr Hoby rede to me a sarmon of Vdale'	Thomas Hoby	John Udall	[Sermons]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The book arrived by the first post.[...] [it] might be described as an appalling indictment of the middle classes--[...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	A Commentary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Send me Lane's exact address and I will forward him the MS of "[The Holy] Mountain". I've just finished re-reading th...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Reynolds	The Holy Mountain	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'I found Jessie crazy with tooth ache which lasted all day, and transported--it's the only word for it--with admiratio...	Jessie Conrad	John Galsworthy	Fraternity	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely readi...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Fraternity	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely readi...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	A Little Tour in France	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' I have just finished the book ["Mr. Apollo"] which reached me this morning [...].It comes off magnificently.' Hence...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	Mr. Apollo	Print: BookManuscript: proofs
	1900-1945	'I am keeping the "Jeanne d'Arc" until you return to town, unless you want me to send it out west to you. Upon the who...	Joseph Conrad	Anatole France	Vie de Jeanne d'Arc	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'at Night went to priuatt praier, after Mr Hoby had reed vnto me some notes of Mr Egertons Lecturs'	Thomas Hoby	Egerton	[lectures]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'From one point of view I've nothing but admiration for the ending of "Shadows" ["Fraternity"].Its naturalness is appa...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Fraternity	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'[...] the gratuitous atrocity of, say, "Ivan Illyitch"[sic] or the monstous stupidity of such a thing as "The Kreutze...	Joseph Conrad	Leo Tolstoy	The Death of Ivan Illyich and other stories	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'But "La leçon bien apprise" is really quite....And what is wrong with "Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine"? I don't like ...	Joseph Conrad	Anatole France	Les Etrennes de Mlle. Doucine, and La Leçon bien apprise see also additional comments	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis'	Constance Wallis	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Bird: 'last Monday week, the 29th of December, about half-past nine o'cl...	Joseph Bird	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Forster: 'I had heard of his loss, and seen an advertisement in the Time...	Joseph Forster	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for deception: Charles Baldwin: 'On Tuesday, the 6th of June, I read this advertisement in...	Charles Baldwin	[n/a]	Morning Advertiser	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Jonas Levy: 'I read in the newspaper that a man named Jones was taken up for s...	Jonas Levy	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'There are books one seems to have read before, and books one doesn't want to read, books that one reads with annoyanc...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Reynolds	A Poor Man's House	Print: Book
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: Charles Blakeley Brown: 'On the 3rd of December, I read this advertisement in t...	Charles Blakeley Brown	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I have tasted, sipped, and consumed the delectable nectar prepared surely with the milk of human kindness and spiced ...	Joseph Conrad	E.[Edward] V. [Verrall] Lucas	Over Bemerton's: An Easy-going Chronicle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: Samuel Birchfield: 'About eleven o'clock, on the 26th of February, I left my ho...	Samuel Birchfield	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'[...]the 2 vols of my uncle's memoirs which I have by me, to refresh my recollections and settle my ideas.' [while st...	Joseph Conrad	Tadeusz Bobrowski	Pamietniki	Print: Book
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for theft: James Dignum: 'I had heard something about the state of Lord Fitzgerald's healt...	James Dignum	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	witness statement in trial for wounding: Thomas Waller: 'I was sitting reading the newspaper when the prisoner came in'	Thomas Waller	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th centur...	Joseph Conrad	Norman Douglas	The Isle of Typhoeus	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'Does the A[natole] F[rance] next book consist of the proofs you've let me see? And what on earth is one to write abou...	Joseph Conrad	Anatole France	L'Ile des Pingouins	Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs
	1900-1945	'The India book is most interesting. Nevinson is a dear. What is happening now there only shows that nations as well a...	Joseph Conrad	Henry Woodd Nevinson	The New Spirit in India	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Both Jessie and I are very much struck with "[A] Fisher of Men".'	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	A Fisher of Men	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on Kingsley as religious leader]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	The American	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	The American	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[Paper on Life of Fitzgerald and Omar's Philosophy]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl...	Charles Stansfield		Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa...	Charles Stubington	Rudyard Kipling		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa...	Charles Stansfield	H.M. Wallis	[paper on Kipling]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...	Charles Stansfield	Lewis Carroll [pseud.]	[the Mock Turtle's Story from] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...	Mrs Cass	Lewis Carroll [pseud.]	[from] Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight Fits	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'You are quite right, according to me, in being dissatisfied with my work; but not right at all in expressing your dis...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Glasgow Brown	letter	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Rondeau On reading a work by M. Auguste Maquet entitled Les Vertes Feuilles. See, "The Green Leaves", I leave them ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Auguste Maquet	Les Feuilles Vertes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Although Mrs Craigie carried out her "duties" as a Roman Catholic, she took her religion lightly, and from her writin...	Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie	François Rabelais	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A fine book dearest boy ! I've read it several times. There's a breadth, an ease in it which gives one a quite new v...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Fraternity	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to John May, 6 October 1797: 'Coleridge has so far compleated his tragedy that he has only the task of...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	S.T. Coleridge	Osorio	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'All the same I've read your two short stories. Very good both. Very good indeed. But I am not going to think out a st...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Reynolds	unknown	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ...	Mrs Cass	William Shakespeare	Taming of the Shrew, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am reading "Peculiarities of Behaviour" by Wilhelm Stekel. It is curious how these psychoanalysts boil everything d...	Thomas Kitching	Wilhelm Stekel	Peculiarities of Behaviour	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read the "Syonan Times" it says: "The era of equality for all in Greater Asia is at hand"'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	I am reading "Puppets into Scotland" by W. Wilkinson - it makes one very homesick'	Thomas Kitching	Walter Wilkinson	Puppets into Scotland	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I finish the "Puppets" book; it induced too great a longing for home and freedom and the end of this nightmare the wo...	Thomas Kitching	Walter Wilkinson	Puppets into Scotland	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I find a copy of the "Prison Regulations" for December 1938: European rations total over three pounds daily and Japan...	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	Prison Regulations	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says Java surrendered unconditionally on Monday [9 Mar]'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" also gives a list of Nipponese taking positions as Advisers in various States of Malaya except Pah...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Notice over the bakery - "Wedding Cakes A Speciality"'	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	[sign]	Manuscript: Graffito
	1900-1945	'A statement about the position as regards the exchange of internees is given by "The Changi Guardian" (the prisoners'...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	The Changi Guardian	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" reports there is no resistance in Northern Sumatra. In the newspaper, there is a remarkable simila...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" reports that Eden, the Foreign Secretary, has spoken of the prisoners in Hong Kong and of their "w...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says that 11 ships have been sunk off Colombo, Rangoon and the Indian coast; also the Queen Mary w...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I get a library book, "Dandelion Days". Written on the back cover is an extraordinary message deated 15.1.42 at the G...	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	[marginalia in Dandelion Days]	Manuscript: Graffito
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times announces with a flourish the resumption of the delivery of letters.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" announces the resumption of the retail sale of sugar. And they are to re-open the schools soon'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" reports that 200 mixed British and Dutch refugees have been rounded up in Northern Sumatra. They h...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says the Nipponese have given Hong Kong internees money and cigarettes and they allow canteens whe...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says the scorched earth policy in Malaya was a failure - the rubber and tin are still there!'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says the lack of food grown in Malaya is due to the deliberate policy of the British government, w...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Changi Guardian" says in the "Do You Know?" pages: "That each dawn is now broken by the patter of running feet -...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	The Changi Guardian	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" has a headline: "European War Decided in Two Months", but I cannot get near enough to see which wa...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I take the chance of a leisurely read of "The Syonan Times" of May 18th. The headlines include: "Decline of the Briti...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I inspect "The Syonan Times" from May 23rd to 28th: the usual unadulterated propaganda - in such mass and so blatant ...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I start making star charts and revising my geographical knowledge generally with the aid of a very good atlas - the O...	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	Oxford Advanced Atlas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says very naively that the essay competition on Nipponese culture was very disappointing. There we...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I read "North to the Orient" by Anne Lindbergh. I imagined they had flown over the top of the world! But actually it ...	Thomas Kitching	Anne Lindbergh	North to the Orient	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times reports that Mrs Arbenz, wife of the Swiss Consul, has been killed in a motor accident. Joan knew t...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'A notice in "The Syonan Times" asks the public to cooperate in measures for the suppression of mosquitoes'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" gives full details for an exchange of diplomats and others from the US, Canada and South America a...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'From Axel Munthe's "San Michele": "Imprisoned monkeys, so long as they are in company, live on the whole a supportabl...	Thomas Kitching	Axel Munthe	San Michele	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I read "My Greatest Adventure" by Malcolm Campbell. While treasure hunting on the Cocos, he mentions as typical of th...	Thomas Kitching	Malcolm Campbell	My Greatest Adventure	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In "Guns and Butter" by Bruce-Lockhart (written October 1938), he says: "To anyone who knows the East, it was already...	Thomas Kitching	R.H. Bruce-Lockhart	Guns and Butter	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"The Changi Guardian", in its cricket report, says: "Kitching fought the vigorous attack amid rising excitement and, ...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	The Changi Guardian	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.'	Thomas Kitching	Richard Doddridge Blackmore	Lorna Doone	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" of August 7th says: "Grow more food. It is essential. It is to be planted on enemy-owned rubber pl...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says there is to be a public holiday today for the half-anniversary of the New Birth of Malaya.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I finish "Accident" by Arnold Bennett, write up my diary, and so to bed.'	Thomas Kitching	Arnold Bennett	Accident	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A notice appears on the board: "The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do t...	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	[notice]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'The B-Block strip of grass between the high wall and the passage is now open. It is to be a haven of peace for reader...	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	[notice]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says that, in spite of the "evil scorched-earth policy" of the British, the hydro-electric install...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'A comparison with other internees culled from "The Syonan Times": Manila, S. Thomas University - 3,200 internees in 6...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Changi Guardian" reports: "The Changi Cricket League, long expected, is now in being, thanks to the untiring ene...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	The Changi Guardian	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" informs us that one Nipponese is worth at least six white soldiers because he fights for ideals an...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'According to "The Syonan Times", the Government of Malaya says that the Nipponese will educate the youth of Malaya pr...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says that M. Egle, the Red Cross representative, entertained to dinner by the Nipponese in Shanghi...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says that the Raffles statue is being moved to a museum.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	[in this entry, lists extracts from "The Syonan Times" of 10 Sept]	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" refers to the "miserable hordes of distressed humanity who were barely able to eke out an existenc...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'There is unconscious humour in "The Syonan Times". Two headlines state: "New Order Simplifies Chinese Funerals" and "...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" has the speech of welcome given by the Mayor to Nipponese internees who have arrived on the Tatuta...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says the evil influences of the British education system are to be swept away completely and repla...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" of September 17th contains an account by a Chinese nurse who, I think, must have been on Nora's ship'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" is running heavy propaganda for the people to learn Japanese. They say people evidently don't like...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" says the Tatuta Maru brought parcels for the prisoners of war "direct from their kith and kin"'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I finish reading "The Vicar of Wakefield". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150'	Thomas Kitching	Oliver Goldsmith	Vicar of Wakefield, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" reports that "owing to unavoidable circumstances, the Malayan-Chinese Goodwill Mission's visit to ...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'There is not so much bombast in the latest "Syonan Times" report on the war: "Our nation remains determined ... to ac...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	[Tom quotes the "Syonan Times" on] '"British Maltreatment of Nipponese Internees" and on how the local people "fail to...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" carries a report about Miss Estrop, a Eurasian from Kuala Lumpar.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'A quotation from a book I am reading says: "The only way to waste time is not to enjoy it." How one realises that as ...	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" leader says: "today, hundreds of thousands of people in Malaya are suffering severely from insuffi...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'In "The Syonan Times" there is a very anti-British speech by S.C. Goho - the Indians are not supporting the Indian In...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" has more about the wonderful conditions of prisoners-of-war and internees in Hong Kong and Shanghi...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" reports that a week's holiday starts in Japan and elsewhere on December 5th at the end of a year's...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" has an amusing erros in its leader today.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I have Brian's letter. The opening words are: "Dear Mum and Dad, I hope you are all right". This fills me with gloom....	Thomas Kitching	Brian Kitching	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'There is an article in "The Syonan Times" by Charles Nell about Malayan Shylocks.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I see Seabridge's letter from South Africa; it is very interesting. There are details about many people who escaped a...	Thomas Kitching	Seabridge	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" gives it away: "The English who formerly lived like kings are now sighing in Changi Prison".'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'And now for the best jest so far in Changi: the editors of "The Changi Guardian" suddenly have their cells turned ins...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	The Changi Guardian	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Jap Times and Advertiser" held a slogan competition.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Jap Times and Advertiser	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'A paragraph has been cut out of "The Syonan Times"; internees are not allowed to see it, but, with the usual efficien...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I am amused by a purchase I make today: it is toilet paper and on the wrapper it says in large letters, obviously as ...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	wrapper	Print: wrapper/ packaging
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" is again full of articles putting the blame for the war on the Allies'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Times" advertises a movie in the Capitol, now disguised as Kyo-El-Gekizyo: "Love Finds Andy Hardy".'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1900-1945	'To quote "The Syonan Times", "All houses will hoist the Rising Sun Flag".'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Times	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Aha! The transformed newspaper is an accomplished fact. The issue of December 12th carries its new name of "Syonan Si...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Helen Ball's letter from South Africa to James is like a breath of fresh spring air in this lousy gaol' [describes le...	Thomas Kitching	Helen Ball	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" publish a long interview given by the Bishop of Singapore a few days ago, which is entirely ficti...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" headline on December 18th: "Tokyo Wins War of Radio Waves". The newspaper lauds the superiority o...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'A notice in "The Syonan Sinbun" again calls upon all owners of short-wave wireless sets to hand them over for convers...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I finish reading the 1942 diary of R.J.H.S. (another internee). It is an intensely personal document totally unlike m...	Thomas Kitching	R.J.H.S.	Diary	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The newspaper reports that the so-clever Nipponese scientists are not only going to eradicate venereal disease, but a...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" advertises a slogan competition for the anniversary of the fall of Singapore: "Slogans should cle...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the museum authorities in Singapore are busy translating all the thousands of explan...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I go to the library; luckily there is no queue. I get "Trent's Last Case" - a grand book. I've read it at least three...	Thomas Kitching	E. C. Bentley	Trent's Last Case	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that there are 18 large mailbags in Tokyo with letters from Great Britain for war priso...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports Tokyo as saying that "the maltreatment and petty annoyances to which Nipponese internees ...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that Yamashita, the conqueror of Malaya, has been promoted to General.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" for Tuesday and Wednesday surpasses itself.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" leader is quite amusing; it tells the people how changed things are for them compared with a year...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the Nipponese Government has decided not to consider Indians and the other peoples o...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I am reading "Haworth Parsonage" by Isabel C. Clarke. I have never read a book on the Brontes before, although I have...	Thomas Kitching	Isabel Constance Clarke	Haworth Parsonage	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Symonds has lent me Pontanus ... You can twig the argument; he is delicious.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Giovanni Pontano	Pontani Opera, 'Hendecasyllaborum, Liber Primus' xx	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for murder: Charles Evans: 'I was in the room when the Coroner summed up the case to the J...	Charles Evans	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Childs: 'Turner sat down, and fell asleep—Grimes sat near him, and seem...	Thomas Collins	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on Shakespeare]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int...	Charles Stansfield	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for deception: William James Bedel: 'On Monday, 6th Nov. last, I saw this advertisement in...	William James Bedel	[n/a]	The Times	Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Mrs Goadby then sang a song which was followed by a paper by Mr Stansfield on "The Hasty"'.	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[Paper delivered to XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: George Dawson: 'Campbell was in my house on that Saturday, from three to four o...	Joseph Campbell	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for deception: Thomas Holmman: 'I afterwards saw an account in the newspaper of the priso...	Thomas Holmman	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[Paper on Ruskin's Economics]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ...	Charles Stansfield	John Ruskin	Unto this Last	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Witness statement in trial for theft: George Gordon Chitlock: 'both these bags were in the booking-office—the priso...	Samuel Game	[n/a]	[newspaper]	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa...	Miss Goadby	Miss Goadby	'Some Illustrations of Wm Morris's love of nature'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa...	Miss Goadby	William Morris	[poetry and prose]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on "Tennyson and his Books"]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth...	Charles Stansfield	William Makepeace Thackeray		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	William Makepeace Thackeray		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth...	Miss Pollard	William Makepeace Thackeray		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth...	Miss Goadby	Miss Goadby	'A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth...	Miss Goadby	William Makepeace Thackeray	Some Roundabout Papers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ...	Miss Goadby	Miss Goadby	[Paper on Charles Lamb]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[Paper on Charles Lamb]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ...	Miss Pollard	Charles Lamb		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Lamb		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ...	Miss Goadby	Charles Lamb		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel...	Charles Stansfield	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	His [Norman Douglas's] intention is to offer his MS [" Siren Land"] to Mr Methuen. It is jolly good--a distinguished a...	Joseph Conrad	Norman Douglas	Siren Land	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'So I will only tell you that the 1st instalment of the novel [ "The Holy Mountain"] is brilliantly effective.'	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Reynolds	The Holy Mountain	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I am extremely gratified by the arrival of your book of Supermen. [...] your pages can give nothing but pleasure to a...	Joseph Conrad	J. (James) G. Gibbons Huneker	Egoists: A Book of Supermen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the play ["The Feud"] which reached me today and as you may imagine was read at once.' Hence follow a page...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	The Feud	Print: playscript
	1900-1945	'I wrote yesterday to P[erceval] G[ibbon] about his Afrikander memories. I didn't quite tell him how good they are for...	Joseph Conrad	Reginald Perceval Gibbon	Afrikander Memories	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The newspaper praises it [loaf made of maize flour and rice]: "Bread reappears in Syonan. The doctors are enthusiasti...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Forbes has three postcards; one marked "Try Singapore, then Batavia". This shows there must be internees in Batavia a...	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	postcard	Manuscript: postcard
	1900-1945	'Very neatly put is this from "The Syonan Sinbun": "With the return of warm weather, the submarine threat has become a...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I receive two letters - one (undated) from Nellie [Tom's eldest sister] in Australia and the other from Amy Hallom in...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	[letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'There is an appeal in "The Syonan Sinbun" to stop the black-marketeering in drugs. Quinine is available at five cents...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'There is a letter from Joan, Barn Close, Milford, Godalming. It is dated 14.7.42 and addressed to both of us, of cour...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I see a quotation in "Jesting Pilate" by M. Arlen who just passed through Japan. He says: "It is as though there was ...	Thomas Kitching	M Arlen	Jesting Pilate	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am reading volume four of "Wonderful Britain". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. W...	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	Wonderful Britain	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" says: 'What were considered ridiculous prices a few months after the fall of Singapore are as not...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'A few letters are released today. I get my fifth and last - it is from Amy addressed to Nora at 24, Mount Rosie Road ...	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a speech made by Colonel Okabo to a meeting of Mohammedan delegates. He tells them to war...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I receive another letter from Joan, dated June 30th. She had just started the massage course for which the fee was 14...	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I finish reading "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell - A most remarkable book. I enjoyed it very much, but what...	Thomas Kitching	Margaret Mitchell	Gone with the wind	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I get my letter; it is from Pip [Tom's sister, Phyllis] and is dated June 21st, 1942. She says Colin looks absolutely...	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'The Saturday newspaper has part of a column cut out. As there is no war news from Europe elsewhere, you can put omiss...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I finish reading "Walking in the Grampians". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is...	Thomas Kitching	[unknown]	Walking in the Grampians	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Both Tuesday and Wednesday editions of "The Syonan Sinbun" have bits cut out - one-and-a-half columns then one column.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'There is more censorship of the newspaper. It is cut about all over the place.'	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I discover a new Nipponese word in a newspaper report: "Three of our planes committed jibaku" ie. deliberately dived ...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'An article in "The Syonan Sinbun" headed "Red Cross Says Syonan Prisoners Well-Treated" reports that the Internationa...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that Nipponese is to be the future lingua franca of Malaya, but do not be perturbed - E...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"Nippon knows no class or racial distinctions which were so hateful under the British", says a leader in "The Syonan ...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun", under the heading "No Room for Criminals", reports on the new regime's effective campaign agains...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" says the Axis have won the first round in Sicily, but doesn't explain how they let the Allies get...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a spokesman of the Nipponese Army Board of Information as saying Britain has sent warship...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" says a cable from Lisbon on July 22nd reported the arrival in London of 20,000 postcards and lett...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I finish reading "The Escaping Club" by A.J. Evans; it is very interesting, but what a contrast to our lot and treatm...	Thomas Kitching	A.J. Evans	The escaping club	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A young hopeful from the Women's camp, aged five, asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, "Go over to th...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Pow-Wow	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'"The Syonan Sinbun" says goods supplied by the Nipponese will be distributed today; the goods include crockery, glass...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Syonan Sinbun	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I am reading with intense interest the government blue book of documents prior to the outbreak of war on September 3r...	Thomas Kitching	[n/a]	Government Blue Books	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I like immensely your verse in the last E[nglish R[eview]. The second piece for choice but as a matter of fact I like...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	unspecified poem	Print: Serial / periodical
	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	'AT LAST! A letter from Brenda [Tom's sister] dated July 27th, 1942, with some news of Nora: 'I expect Joan has told y...	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'There is a letter to both of us from Joan dated July 28th, 1942. She is enjoying her work "hugely".'	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I receive another letter from Joan, dated October 13th, 1942, and numbered two. She is full of enthusiasm for her wor...	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I receive two letters from Brenda. One dated July 22nd, 1942, says she was just moving to London and was going to do ...	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'An advertisement for the Japanese film of the fall of Singapore, "On to Singapore" announces "Syonan - City of Peace,...	Thomas Kitching		[advertisement]	Print: Advertisement
	1900-1945	'I receive a letter from Brenda, dated September 18th, 1942. She writes: "We are hoping it won't be long now before we...	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'A note from Nic says that, if I send a coconut weekly, she will send sago pudding - very nice of her.'	Thomas Kitching		[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'With nothing else to do, the library queue has grown beyond all bounds. It took me an hour yesterday to get "The Silk...	Thomas Kitching	A Berkeley	The Silk Stocking Murders	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read "Golden Horn" by F. Yeats Brown. He was a prisoner in Turkish hands for two-and-a-half years. As in all these ...	Thomas Kitching	F Yeats Brown	Golden Horn	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'All the letters have been distributed; they have been here only two months. I get my six, two-and-a-half from Joan, t...	Thomas Kitching		[letters]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I read "Peril at End House" by Agatha Christie; it is excellent.'	Thomas Kitching	Agatha Christie	Peril at End House	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Reading "Forbidden Journey" written by Ella Maillart in 1936, I am interest in her remarks about our friend, the enem...	Thomas Kitching	Ella Maillart	Forbidden Journey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Bishop of St David's to George Grote, 21 June 1847: 'My expectations, though they had been raised very high, we...	Bishop of St David's	George Grote	A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Bishop of St David's to George Grote, 21 June 1847: 'My expectations, though they had been raised very high, we...	Bishop of St David's	George Grote	A History of Greece (vols 3 and 4)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Stuart Mill to George Grote, January 1849: 'I have just finished reading the two volumes with the greatest ple...	John Stuart Mill	George Grote	A History of Greece (vols 5 and 6)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'About 3.30, C.M.G. came striding in, resplendent in full Highland rig-out ... He had a number of MSS with him and rea...	Christopher Murray Grieve	Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.]	Red Scotland	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	The elderly Charles Austin to Harriet Grote (October 1861): 'The world is very full of noise just now. Here, howeve...	Charles Austin		The Times	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he...	Sir William Gomm	George Grote	A History of Greece (vols 1-5)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (January 1803): 'I am now going for 2 or 3 hours to ex...	Selina Trimmer			Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'This day I was in the Advocates Library seeking German Books, and I found (directed by Dr Irving) the first Article i...	Thomas Carlyle	anon	Review of 'German Romance'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'This ["The Eldest Son"] is extremely fine [...]. At the end of each act I got up and walked for a while in a sort of ...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Eldest Son	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess ...	Joseph Conrad	Carl Murrell Marris		Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I am [...] reading and dipping into and re-dipping into your blue volume ["The Holy Mountain"]. Fact is I've just ban...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Reynolds	The Holy Mountain	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Your paper on the drama has pleased me so much in the form and has appealed strongly to my convictions which it clari...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Some Platitudes Concerning Drama	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	St Augustine	Confessions	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	St Augustine	De Civitate Dei [The City of God]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	Blaise Pascal	Pensees	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	Blaise Pascal	Provincial Letters	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	Walter Pater	Studies in the History of the Renaissance	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	T Mommsen	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	John Henry Newman	The Grammar of Ascent	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	John Henry Newman	Apologia Pro Vita Sua	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	John Henry Newman	Two Essays on Miracles	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and...	Oscar Wilde	John Henry Newman	The Idea of a University	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp...	Oscar Wilde	Dante Alighieri	Divina Commedia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c...	Joseph Conrad	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp...	Oscar Wilde		Italian Grammar Book	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp...	Oscar Wilde		Italian Dictionary	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp...	Oscar Wilde		[Anthology of all surviving Greek and Latin poetry and Drama]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp...	Oscar Wilde	Lidell and Scott	Greek Lexicon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp...	Oscar Wilde	Lewis and Short	Latin Dictionary	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c...	Joseph Conrad	Gustave Flaubert	Salammbô	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde		New Testament in Greek	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Henry Hart Milman	History of the Jews	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Frederick William Farrar	Life and Works of St Paul	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	Complete Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Christopher Marlowe	Complete Works	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Thomas Carlyle	Sartor Resartus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Thomas Carlyle	Life of Frederick the Great	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	John Keats	Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Edmund Spenser	Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Joseph Ernest Renan	Vie de Jesus	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Joseph Ernest Renan	The Apostles	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Leopold von Ranke	History of the Popes	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Thomas Henry Newman	Critical and Historical Essays	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essays	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...	Oscar Wilde	Charles Dickens	Complete Works	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Walter Pater	Gaston de Latour	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Henry Hart Milman	History of Latin Christianity	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	William Wordsworth	Complete Works	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Matthew Arnold	Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Dean Church	Dante and Other Essays	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Thomas Percy	Reliques of Ancient English Poetry	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Hallam	History of the Middle Ages	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	John Dryden	Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Robert Burns	Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Alfred Tennyson	Morte d'Arthur	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Jean Froissart	Chronicles	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Henry Thomas Buckle	History of Civilisation	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Geoffrey Chaucer	Canterbury Tales	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	John Addington Symonds	Introduction to Dante	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	A.J. Butler	Companion to Dante	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Walter Pater	Miscellaneous Essays	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...	Oscar Wilde	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Every morning, after I have cleaned my cell and polished my tins, I read a little of the Gospels, a dozen verses take...	Oscar Wilde		Gospels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guin...	Thomas Carlyle	Franz Horn	Unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Graham, the maker of this hat, is a poor but industrious woman, about five-and-thirty years of age, resident with...	Mrs Graham	William Cobbett	Cottage Economy: A New Edition	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surpr...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas de Quincey	Review of 'State of German Literature'	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ...	Miss Goadby	Miss Goadby	[Paper on 'Reminscences of Moore']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ...	Miss Goadby	Thomas Moore		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans...	Charles Stansfield	Harold Fielding Hall	Soul of a People	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on 'The Soul of a People']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Tobias Smollett	History	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Joseph Blacket	poetry	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Poetry and shoemaking were part of the daily round [for the young Anne Isabella Milbanke]; a grander ambition was tak...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Horace		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs...	Charles Stansfield	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on Spenser]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on Emerson]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ...	Miss Pollard	Ralph Waldo Emerson		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ...	Charles Stansfield	Ralph Waldo Emerson		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well ...	Oscar Wilde	Elzabeth Barrett Browning	Aurora Leigh	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the ...	Oscar Wilde	John Keats	Sonnet in Blue	Manuscript: Sheet
	1850-1899	'Wilde later said that it was his mother who inspired him to write verse [....] When his poems first appeared in magaz...	Speranza Wilde	Oscar Wilde	Magdalen Walks	Unknown
	1850-1899	'One of the "golden books" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel "Sidonia the Sorceress". ...	Oscar Wilde	J.W. Meinhold	Sidonia the Sorceress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde praised "Melmoth" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it...	Oscar Wilde	Charles Maturin	Melmoth the Wanderer	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde also excelled in French. His copy of Voltaire's "Histoire de Charles XII" bears the autograph and date "Oscar W...	Oscar Wilde	Voltaire	Histoire de Charles XII	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Surviving copies of his classics books - which contain copious and meticulous annotations concerning syntax and gramm...	Oscar Wilde		['classics books']	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers...	Oscar Wilde	Thucydides		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers...	Oscar Wilde	Plato		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers...	Oscar Wilde	Virgil		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"The flowing beauty of his oral translations in class, whether of Thucydides, Plato, or Virgil was," one of his peers...	Oscar Wilde	Aeschylus	Agamemnon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wild...	Oscar Wilde	Charles Dickens	novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly un...	Oscar Wilde	Benjamin Disraeli	novels	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'As a boy [Wilde] "cared little for German literature, excepting only [Heinrich] Heine and Goethe."'	Oscar Wilde	Heinrich Heine		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri...	Oscar Wilde	Honore de Balzac	Lost Illusions	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri...	Oscar Wilde	Honore de Balzac	A Harlot High and Low	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri...	Oscar Wilde	Stendhal	Scarlet and Black	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The earliest of his extant volumes is a copy of Livy's "Roman History" which bears the date "November 1868" when Wild...	Oscar Wilde	Livy	Roman History	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde's copy of "The Bacchae of Euripides" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On t...	Oscar Wilde	Euripides	The Bacchae	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The first volume of Symond's "Studies of the Greek Poets", issued in 1873, was "perpetually" in Wilde's "hands" at Tr...	Oscar Wilde	John Addington Symonds	Studies of the Greek Poets, vols 1 and 2	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'The annotations in Wilde's copy of J.E.T. Rodgers's edition of [Aristotle's] "Ethics", which is inscribed "Oscar Wild...	Oscar Wilde	Aristotle	Ethics	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading "Rambles ...	Oscar Wilde	John Pentland Mahaffy	Rambles and Studies	Manuscript: proofs
	1850-1899	'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with ...	Oscar Wilde	Algernon Swinburne	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with ...	Oscar Wilde	Thomas a Kempis	The Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"The Dialogues of Plato" became one of Wilde's golden books. He marked and annotated most of the dialogues, and many ...	Oscar Wilde	Plato	Dialogues	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'It was during Michaelmas term of 1874 that Wilde first opened "Studies in the History of the Renaissance", a collecti...	Oscar Wilde	Walter Pater	Studies in the History of the Renaiisance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on H. G. Wells's 'Mankind in the Making']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave...	Charles Stansfield	H.G. Wells	Mankind in the Making	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ...	Charles Stansfield	Leo Tolstoy	Ivan the Fool	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fi...	Charles Stansfield	Geoffrey Chaucer	Rhyme of Sir Thopas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'There was a very full attendance & a lively discussion of the Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deteriorati...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[Paper responding to Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Homer	Iliad	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Frances Burney	Evelina	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	William Wordsworth		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The "Lakers," as Byron called them, were making themselves strongly felt [in 1812], and (at this moment) Southey most...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Robert Southey	Madoc	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Maria Edgeworth	novels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	William Beckford	Vathek	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuin...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejud...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition...	Anne Isabella Milbanke	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Giaour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'	Anne Isabella Milbanke	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lara	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'	Anne Isabella Milbanke	Sismondi	Italian Republics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, a...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	John Dryden	Don Sebastian	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"You will know my secret if you will; but if I tell you, you shall be made miserable throughout your life -- I will b...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	William Godwin	Caleb Williams	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Leigh Hunt	Rimini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Leigh Hunt	Rimini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[During autumn 1817] she [Lady Byron] was well and happy with M. G. [i.e. her friend Lady Gosford] at Kirkby, reading...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Cicero		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[John] Murray [Byron's publisher] sent an advance-copy of the new Harold. She [Lady Byron] read the imprecation, supp...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrot...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Moore had owned that the Memoirs [of Byron] were of "such a low pot-house description" that [John Murray] could not h...	Thomas Moore	George Gordon Lord Byron	Memoirs	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Giaour	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	'Fare thee well' (lyric verses)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	George Gordon Lord Byron	'the Satire'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The girl [Ada Byron] was then [1831] seventeen; her mother had been reading Harriet Martineau's Five Years of Youth, ...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Harriet Martineau	Five Years of Youth	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Lady Byron was to [George] MacDonald the protectress, the adviser, and once at least the extremely rigorous critic. ...	Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron	George MacDonald	Within and Without	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[a paper on Carlyle]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was no...	Charles Stansfield	Thomas Carlyle		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss A...	Miss Angus [?]	George Eliot [pseud.]	Romola	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a...	Charles Stansfield		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811: 'Do you wish to see us tonigh...	Charles Ellis			Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in th...	Thomas Carlyle	George Moir	Preface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schiller's Thirty Years War, I	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I received the volume ["A Motley"] the day before yesterday and laid it aside till this afternoon.' Hence follow one...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	A Motley	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[ev...	Joseph Conrad	Norman Douglas	The Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited in evidence	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'In the same No. [of Harper's Magazine] Nevinson has a story-- and Lord it is bad. The whole No. is so inept that I fe...	Joseph Conrad	Henry Woodd Nevinson	Sitting at a Play	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Your gift is none the less welcome because I read your book a few weeks ago. E[dward] Garnett, Duckworth's literary a...	Joseph Conrad	David Bone	The Brassbounder	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I didn't dare to look at your book ["The Scar"] till I finished a rather long thing which I was writing.[...] I have ...	Joseph Conrad	Francis Warrington Dawson	The Scar	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Without any doubt Jean [Gachet de la Fournière] has talent.[...] I wrote my immediate impression right after reading...	Joseph Conrad	Jean Gachet de la Fournière	unknown	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I must thank you for the "B[lack]wood" where your "Puffin" was really interesting.'	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Reynolds	The Puffin (uncertain)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'All these sketches have the quality without which neither beauty, nor I am afraid, truth, are effective, that is they...	Joseph Conrad	Helen Sanderson (pseud. 'Janet Allardyce')	African Sketches and Impressions	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.'	Joseph Conrad	Norman Douglas	unidentified	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I wouldn't throw a doubt on his [Edward Garnett's] judgement but I understand he has been lately crying up [through h...	Joseph Conrad	E.F. Wedgwood	The Shadow of a Titan	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] L...	Joseph Conrad	Ivan Turgenev	A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I send back "The Windlestraw" by return of post. In this sort of apologue you are simply incomparable.' Hence follow...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Windlestraw	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!'	Joseph Conrad	Guy de Maupassant	Yvette and Other Stories	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It was ever so good of you to have sent me the Hogarth little book. I knew practically nothing of the man and I was g...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	Hogarth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Now I have looked [at the verses] I have to thank you for the kind thought of sending me the little volume and for th...	Joseph Conrad	Douglas Goldring	A Country Boy and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 8 October 1820: 'To-day I perform alone upon a r...	Charles Greville	Walter Scott	Kenilworth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Go...	Thomas Carlyle	David (dr) Brewster	Recommendation	Manuscript: Letter of recommendation
	1900-1945	'The appeal to my literary opinion was not fair. Suppose I had been in one of my cantankerous hours when the book came...	Joseph Conrad	(Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle) Mrs Henry de La Pasture	Peter's Mother	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'.	Walter S. Rowntree		[Sagas]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b...	Miss Marriage	George Borrow	Lavengro	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Binns opened the subject of folklore with an excellent paper & Sybil Heelas & W.J. Rowntree gave readings'.	Sybil Heelas		[folklore]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ...	Mrs Kaye	James Barrie	Window in Thrums, A	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ...	Miss Marriage	James Barrie	Window in Thrums, A	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H...	Sylvanus Reynolds	Thomas Hardy	Under the Greenwood Tree	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,...	Charles Stansfield	William Wymark Jacobs		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,...	Charles Evans	William Wymark Jacobs		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C....	Miss Marriage		[a parody]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C....	Charles Evans		[a parody]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Friday, 23 December 1825: 'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very ...	Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto	Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto	poems	Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors...	Charles Stansfield		[example of Vers de Societe]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors...	Charles Evans		[example of Vers de Societe]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors...	John James Cooper		[example of Vers de Societe]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' This is really great, great in every dimension. [...] I have read the book ["The New Machiavelli"] yesterday and thi...	Joseph Conrad	H. G. (Herbert George) Wells	The New Machiavelli	Print: 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 w...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The book ["Siren Land"]'s certain to be well noticed -- maybe attacked too; but that's no harm. I've been delighted....	Joseph Conrad	Norman Douglas	Siren Land	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Of course it ["The Patrician"] isn't pure aesthetics (only Flaubert's "Salammbo" among novels is that) but even on th...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Patrician	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'No end of thanks for the little vol: so charming inside and outside--in its slender body containing a gently melodiou...	Joseph Conrad	Arthur Symons	unidentified	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the little book ["Light and Twilight"] so full of good things. You know I have a prediliction for your pro...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Thomas	Light and Twilight	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks very much for the books. You are indeed very good to me. Hudson's volume is fine, very fine, infinitely loveab...	Joseph Conrad	W.H.(William Henry) Hudson	A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (probable)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"François" is quite good. Very genuine touches all along and quite telling bits here and there.'	Joseph Conrad	unknown		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ...	Miss Marriage	Dante Alighieri	Inferno	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'What I set out to say was that all these delays, vexing as they were, gave me the time to read "The Downfall of the G...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Clifford	The Downfall of the Gods	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have the read the two July articles just before that period [of depression or at least writer's block] began. Evide...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Reynolds	unidentified	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	The seventeen-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson, when he read the novel that year, wrote to his mother: “Isn’t the d...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Wilkie Collins	The Moonstone	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightnes...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	The Outcry	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read the MS. I have read it twice.' Hence follow 20 lines of quite strong but constructive criticism.	Joseph Conrad	(Francis) Warrington Dawson	unspecified	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Translation enclosed, very literal, for the fun’s sake. I have taken stock/made acquaintance of the ["Treatise of ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Frederic Andre	letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'Thank you for the book. So judicious, so interesting, so touching--why shouldn't I say so when I have been touched?'	Joseph Conrad	Henri Ghéon	Nos Directions	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William...	Joseph Conrad	William James	Memories and Studies	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The volume is very emphatically all right. In many respects better than I expected.' Hence follows a page of strong ...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Reynolds (and Bob and Tom Woolley)	Seems So! A Working Class View of Politics	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I hadn't turned over the 3rd page when I let out a whistle of respectful admiration.' Hence follows a page of praise...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	Lords and Masters	Print: playscript
	1900-1945	'Very many thanks for your kind and friendly notion of sending me "The Brothers Karamazov". I am quite simply astonsi...	Joseph Conrad	Jacques Copeau(and Jean Croue, after Fyodor Dostoievski	Les Frères Karamazov: une drame en 5 actes Dostoievski	Print: playscript
	1900-1945	'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said a...	Joseph Conrad	André Gide	L'Immoraliste	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said a...	Joseph Conrad	André Gide	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt...	John James Cooper	John James Cooper	[Essay on life and work of Goldwin Smith]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt...	John James Cooper	Goldwin Smith		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S...	Charles Stansfield	Henri Bergson		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his...	Charles Evans	George Bernard Shaw	Fabian Essays	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[essay on Shaw's Life and Works]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his...	Charles Stansfield	George Bernard Shaw		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c mu...	Thomas Carlyle	John A. Carlyle	Letter dated 6th Feb, Munich	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'Dear Little Crow, I duly received your Munich Letter, and your Proofsheet Package, on two successive Wednesdays; and ...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Carlyle	Package of Proofsheets	Manuscript: Proofsheets
	1800-1849	'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose...	Thomas Carlyle	Jane Welsh Carlyle	Message about Aunt's death	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Monday. 16 February 1829: 'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some ...	Sir William Hamilton	Sir William Hamilton	'On the size of the brain and the proportion of its parts, as affected by age, sex, or sexual mutilation.'	Unknown
	1850-1899	'See No. 571, last page; an article, called Sir Claude the Conqueror ... The story in question, by the by, was a last ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Walter Villiers	Sir Claude the Conqueror (in Young Folks)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Observe in the same number, how Will. J. Sharman girds at your poor friend ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Will. J. Sharman	article in Young Folks	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Talking of which, in Heaven's name, get the Bondage of Brandon (3 vols) by Bracebridge Hemming.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Bracebridge Hemyng	Bondage of Brandon	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter to Colvin and have roared over it ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Oscar Wilde	letter to Sidney Colvin	Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter ... I read his poems and found, with disappointment, they were not e...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Oscar Wilde	Poems	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I had already spotted your Dickens; very pleasant and true.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	review of Vol 3 Letters of Charles Dickens in Athenaeum	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Morris's Sigurd is a grrrrreat poem; that is so.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Morris	translation of The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...	Ernest E. Unwin	Henry Marriage Wallis	[prefatory notes to Browning's 'Sordello']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...	Charles I. Evans	Robert Browning	Sordello	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...	Miss Marriage	Robert Browning	Sordello	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the...	Ernest E. Unwin	[a member of the XII Book Club]	[essay on Browning]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the...	Charles Evans	[a member of the XII Book Club]	[essay on Browning]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the litera...	Charles Stansfield		[literature on Christian Science]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	John James Cooper	John James Cooper	[Paper on Robert Bridges]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	Charles Evans	Charles Evans	[Paper on Henry Newbolt]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Paper on John Masefield]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	Ernest E. Unwin	John Masefield		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	Charles Evans	Henry Newbolt		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un...	John James Cooper	Robert Bridges		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge ...	Ernest E. Unwin	ernest E. Unwin	[paper on neo-Irish theatre]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Bronte		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t...	Charles Evans	Bronte		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read your “Giotto”; it’s almighty well written, I don’t know how the devil you can write like that.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	"Giotto's Gospel of Labour"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I read your “Grosvenor”; I’ve seen more interesting articles of yours (beg parding!); but it seemed to me very ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	"The Grosvenor Gallery"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	It would not be very easy for me to give you any idea of the pleasure I found in your present….I can assure you, you...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Arthur Patchett Martin	Sweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random Rhymes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thursday, 28 May 1829: 'Mr. MacIntosh Mackay breakfasted and inspected my curious MS. which Dr. Brindley [sic for B...	MacIntosh Mackay		The Book of Rights	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l...	Ursula Unwin	Ursula Unwin	[biography of Tolstoy]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l...	Charles Evans		[works by and about Tolstoy]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R...	Ernest E. Unwin	Anatole France	Thais	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R...	Charles Evans	Anatole France		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of the last two meetings were read'.	Ernest Unwin	Alfred Rawlings	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con...	Charles Evans	Oliver Wendell Holmes	'Chambered Nautilus, The'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con...	Charles Evans	Oliver Wendell Holmes	'Deacon's Masterpiece, Or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay: A Logical Story	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read'.	Ernest Unwin	Ernest Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read'	Ernest Unwin	Ernest Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla...	Walter S. Rowntree	Alfred Russel Wallace	My Life; A Record of Events and Opinions.	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest Unwin	Ernest Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on Chaucer's Life and Times]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...	Charles Evans	Charles Evans	[paper on Chaucer's poetry]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...	Ernest E. Unwin	Geoffrey Chaucer	General Prologue	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...	Rosamund Wallis	Geoffrey Chaucer	General Prologue	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...	Charles Evans	Geoffrey Chaucer	[poetry, including the General Prologue]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo...	Miss Marriage	John J. Cooper	[paper on Thackeray]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo...	Charles Stansfield	William Makepeace Thackeray	Pendennis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo...	Charles Evans	William Makepeace Thackeray	Newcomes, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest Unwin	Ernest Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfre...	Charles E. Stansfield	Rabindranath Tagore	Gardener, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfre...	Charles Evans	Rabindranath Tagore	Post Office	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Thank you for your beautiful book, which I admired with my eyes and then read with great amusement.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Peter Christen Asbjorsen	Round the Yule Log	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Ernest E. Unwin	Richard Jefferies		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on life and works of Richard Jefferies]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Ernest E. Unwin	Richard Jefferies		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Rosamund Wallis	Richard Jefferies		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Ursula D. Unwin	Richard Jefferies		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...	Charles Evans	Richard Jefferies		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The secretary read the following letter from John James Cooper'. [the letter, of resignation from the club, is pasted...	Ernest E. Unwin	John James Cooper	[letter of resignation from XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on Cervantes]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...	Charles Stansfield	Miguel de Cervantes		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ...	Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh	Alfred Tennyson	'Ulysses'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ...	Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh	Robert Browning	'Epilogue to Asolando'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ...	Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh	Rupert Brooke	'Peace'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ...	Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh	Rupert Brooke	'The Dead'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ...	Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh	Rupert Brooke	'The Soldier'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ...	Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secretary read the following poem which he had received from J.J. Cooper in reply to his letter.' [the poem is pa...	Ernest E. Unwin	John James Cooper	[poem on the XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Charles Evans	Henry Newbolt	Clifton Chapel	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Charles Stansfield	Henry Newbolt		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Ursula Unwin	Alfred Noyes		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Ursula Unwin	Ursula Unwin	[paper on Alfred Noyes]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on Henry Newbolt]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...	Charles Stansfield	George Meredith		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...	Charles Evans	George Meredith	'Juggling Jerry'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr...	Ernest E. Unwin		[article in 'Scribners' by or about Galsworthy]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr...	Rosamund Wallis	John Galsworthy	Freelands, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr...	Ernest E. Unwin	John Galsworthy		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle 8 March 1844: '"Ellen Middleton" is no longer a secret and...	Mrs Sartoris	Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower	Ellen Middleton	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of...	Charles Evans	Charles Evans	[paper on William Barnes and / or West Country songs]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	William Barnes	'What Dick and I did'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of...	Walter S. Rowntree	William Barnes	'Sky Man, the'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of...	Charles Evans	William Barnes	'Settle, The'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Lewis Carroll [pseud.]		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well...	Charles Stansfield	Lewis Carroll [pseud.]		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Print: BookManuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Print: BookManuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...	Charles Stansfield	Fyodor Dostoevsky		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...	Ernest E. Unwin	Fyodor Dostoevsky		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Mark Twain		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Minutes read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta...	Charles Evans		[material by or about Wordsworth]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta...	Charles Stansfield		[material by or about Wordsworth]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secretary read a letter which A. Rawlings had received from Mudies Libr. The question of using Mudies was discuss...	Ernest E. Unwin		[letter from Mudies library]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'William Morris - Craftsman - Socialist was the subject of the meeting. The Secretary read a paper dealing with the ma...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on life of William Morris]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers...	Charles Evans	William Morris	Earthly Paradise, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other...	Miss Wallis	Francis Bret Harte	'Waif of the Plains, The'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other...	Ursula Unwin	Francis Bret Harte	[poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other...	Ernest E. Unwin	Francis Bret Harte	[short poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'A letter from Mrs Stansfield was read inviting the club to 29 Upper Redlands Rd for the next meeting'.	Ernest E. Unwin	Pattie Stansfield	[letter to the XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
		'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo...	Ernest E. Unwin	Francis William Bain	'Bubbles of the Foam'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo...	Rosamund Wallis	Francis William Bain	'Ashes of a God'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ...	Charles Stansfield	George Gissing	Private Papers of Henry Rycroft, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on Gissing]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ...	Ernest E. Unwin	George Gissing		Print: Book
	1800-1849	Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 2 August 1810: 'I took the Q[uarterly]. R[eview]. with me. I like it well; and I do...	Isaac Disraeli		Quarterly Review (no. 5)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...	Thomas Moore	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Corsair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...	Isaac Disraeli	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Corsair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any ...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Corsair	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara: 'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic...	Sir J. Malcolm	George Gordon Lord Byron	Lara	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'A letter from Miss Ethel C. Stevens offering to entertain the Book Club for the Sept meeting was read'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ethel C. Stevens	[letter to XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali...	Isaac D'Israeli	Helen Maria Williams	Narrative of Events in France in 1815	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali...	Isaac D'Israeli	Helen Maria Williams	Narrative of Events in France in 1815	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Think...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Think...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Voss	Louisa	Print: Book
	1800-1849	S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 26 March 1817: 'I read Southey's article [...] It is, in my judgement, a very maste...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Robert Southey	article on Parliamentary Reform	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 2 June 1809: 'I received the review, for which I thank you, and beg leave through y...	Thomas Campbell	Walter Scott	review of Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming etc	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (December 1815): 'I find myself, this morning, so strangely affected by the perusal ...	Isaac D'Israeli	George Gordon Lord Byron	The Siege of Corinth	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra...	Samuel Rogers	George Gordon Lord Byron	Sketch from Private Life	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra...	Stratford Canning	George Gordon Lord Byron	Sketch from Private Life	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816: 'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo...	Sir James Mackintosh	George Gordon Lord Byron	Monody [on Sheridan]	Unknown
	1800-1849	Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817: 'In acknowledging the arrival of the article from the Quarterly, which I recei...	Augusta Leigh	Walter Scott	Review of George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Augusta Leigh, Byron's half-sister, to John Murray (July 1818): 'I return the Edinburgh Review, with a thousand tha...	Augusta Leigh		Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'On the whole, our study and love of German Literature seems to be rapidly progressive: in my time, that is, within th...	British Population (general)		[German literature]	Print: BookUnknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on H.G. Wells' religious development]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ...	Charles Stansfield	Herbert George Wells	First and Last Things. Confession of Faith and Rule of Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ...	Charles Stansfield	Herbert George Wells	God the Invisible King	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ...	Charles Stansfield	Herbert George Wells	Soul of a Bishop, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ...	Miss Hayward	Herbert George Wells		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...	Ernest E. Unwin	Robert Louis Stevenson	Travels with a Donkey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on psychic phenomena]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. ...	Charles Stansfield	Reginald Robson	[paper on political situation]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[essay on 'The Humours of Man']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...	Rosamund Wallis	Honore de Balzac	Christ in Flanders	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...	Ursula Unwin		[essay in 'Everyman' on Balzac]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Nature of Poetry. C.I. Evans brought before us the recent book by Henry Newbolt dealing with 'The Nature of Poet...	Charles Evans	Henry Newbolt	[writings on Nature of poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl...	Charles Stansfield	John Keats		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl...	Charles Evans	John Keats	[1820 poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & confirmed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secretary read 'An Open Letter' to the XII Book Club. It was read without discussion - the discussion postponed u...	Ernest E. Unwin	[a member of the XII book Club]	[open letter to the XII Book Club]	Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans rea...	Ernest E. Unwin	Henry Marriage Wallis	[paper on Leslie's 'The End of a Chapter']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ...	Joseph Conrad	Alain-Réné Lesage (Le Sage)	The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santilane	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ...	Joseph Conrad	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	Don Quixote	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ...	Joseph Conrad	Adam Bernard Mickiewicz de Poraj	Pan Tadeuz	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ...	Joseph Conrad	Anthony Trollope		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ...	Joseph Conrad	Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	John Barrow	Review of Dupin, On the Navy of England and France	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	Francis Cohen	'Astrology and Alchemy'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	T. Mitchell	Review of Dalzell, Lectures on the Ancient Greeks	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	Col. Matthews	'article on Hazlitt'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ...	John Wilson Croker	Nassau senior	'[article] on the Scotch novels'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1821: 'Ramsgate is still empty and dull; our good weather fled with the ...	John Wilson Croker		court news	Print: Newspaper
	1700-1799 1800-1849	The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Aberc...	Marquess of Abercorn		'Grecian history and antiquity'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Aberc...	Marquess of Abercorn	Henry Ellis	Journal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to China, comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy, of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Peiho to the Return to Canton	Print: Book
	1800-1849	The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Aberc...	Marquess of Abercorn	John Malcolm, surgeon of the Alceste	Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste to the Yellow Sea, along the Coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered Islands to the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818: 'Mr. Stewart [Mr. Murray's clerk] has been so attentive as to send m...	Isaac D'Israeli		The Observer	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Professor W. T. Brande to John Murray, 2 January 1826: 'Sir H. Davy [...] is extremely sore at Mr. Daniell's paper ...	Sir Humphry Davy	Daniell	paper	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'... and I agree with you I could choose no better model than Colvin's admirable Landor.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Sidney Colvin	Landor	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can b...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I knew I had forgot something: Furnivall is too free; it is permitted to be insolent, but not to be so strangely dull.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Frederick James Furnivall	Review in The Academy	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one li...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Robert Browning	Sordello	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'.	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...	Rosamund Wallis	Thomas Hardy	Mayor of Casterbridge, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...	Ernest E. Unwin	Laurence Binyon	[criticism of Hardy]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu...	Charles Evans	Edmund Gosse	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu...	Ernest E. Unwin	Edmund Gosse	[poetry]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so...	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[paper on Miracle and Morality plays]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so...	Ursula Unwin	anon.	Everyman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so...	Ernest E. Unwin	anon.	York Miracle Cycle	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...	John Wilson Croker	Washington Irving	Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...	John Wilson Croker	Washington Irving	Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...	John Wilson Croker	Washington Irving	'Knickerbocker'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ...	John Wilson Croker	Washington Irving	The American Dutchmen	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828: 'I return, having read through, the first volume of "Horace Walpole'...	John Wilson Croker	Horace Walpole	'Letters to Mr Mason' vol 1	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The first volume of "Lord Byron's Life and Letters," published on the 1st of January, 1830, was read with enthusiasm,...	Anne Isabella Lady Byron	Thomas Moore	Life of Byron	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1831), on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'No doubt there are longeu...	John Wilson Croker	Thomas Moore	Life of Byron (vol 2)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m...	John Wilson Croker	Leigh Hunt	The Tatler	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m...	John Wilson Croker	Leigh Hunt	Rimini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sir Francis Knight to John Murray (1839): 'I was glad [...] to hear the child's voice crying in the Times this morn...	Francis Head		Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada'	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 5 March 1839: 'What is most extraordinary is the article in my favour which late...	Francis Head		Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada'	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835: 'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have b...	Sir Alexander Burnes	Sir John MacNeill	'England, France, Russia, and Turkey'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835: 'I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble's book, but have seen ...	Sir Francis B. Head	Fanny Kemble Butler	Journal [of residence in America]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837: 'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimro...	Scrope Davies		'Bubbles'	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837: 'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimro...	Scrope Davies	Washington Irving	'Stout Gentleman'	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'The Mag has come; the only thing I liked was your Japanese.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	'A Note on Japanese Art' in Magazine of Art	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Why the hell did you or your printers - a lousy lot whom I abominate - pass over a correction of mine and send me spr...	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'O boy, I'm deep in Lanfry.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Jean-Pierre Lanfry	Histoire de Napoleon 1er	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald	Life of George IV	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finish...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on Goethe's 'Faust']]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finish...	Charles Stansfield	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of the last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jon...	Charles Evans	Charles Evans	[paper on Ben Jonson]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo...	Charles Evans	Ben Jonson		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo...	Rosamund Wallis	Ben Jonson	Tale of a Tub, A	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I hav...	Sir Robert Peel		'Handbook'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I hav...	Sir Robert Peel		'account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Sir Francis Head to John Murray, 26 June 1842: 'My son will be quite proud at receiving the [italics]first[end ital...	Sir Francis Head		The Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I have your List of Writings etc: a copy of it was lent to me by Mr Bain the bookseller.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Alexander Ireland	List of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt : chronologically arranged with notes, descriptive, critical, and explanatory; and a selection of opinions regarding their genius and characteristics, by distinguished contemporaries and friends as we	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...	Rosamund Wallis	A.A. Milne	'Man of the Evening, The'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...	Sylvanus Reynolds		Arms of Wipplecrack	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1850-1899	'The elections are coming on, and Paris is full of the strangest manifestoes from this or the other candidate. Some &#...	Robert Louis Stevenson			Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster
	1900-1945	'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte...	Rosamund Wallis	William Henry Hudson	Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte...	Ernest E. Unwin	William Henry Hudson	Book of a Naturalist, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte...	Ursula Unwin	William Henry Hudson	Hampshire Days	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte...	Ernest E. Unwin	William Henry Hudson	[naturalist writing]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte...	Charles Evans	William Henry Hudson	[writing on Hampshire villages]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last two meetings read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea...	Miss Stevens	Fanny Burney	[from works or diary]	Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole
	1900-1945	'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea...	Ursula Unwin	Fanny Burney	[from works or diary]	Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole
	1900-1945	'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea...	Ernest E. Unwin	Fanny Burney	[from works or diary]	Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole
	1900-1945	'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea...	Miss Cole	Fanny Burney	[from works or diary]	Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole
	1900-1945	'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea...	Miss Cole	Fanny Burney	[works and diary]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which...	Charles Evans	Thomas Love Peacock	War Song of Dinas Vawr, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which...	Ernest E. Unwin	Thomas Love Peacock	Nightmare Abbey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which...	Charles Evans	Thomas Love Peacock	Three Men of Gotham	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which...	Miss Cole	Thomas Love Peacock	Love and Age	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You have given me a very invidious task.[...]. Well I have read all your copy. And the result of all my extreme fast...	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Reynolds	How 'Twas: Short Stories and Small Travels.	Unknown
	1900-1945	'I won't say anything of "The Pigeon"-- except that it reads admirably and that I have been fascinated by the theme an...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Pigeon: A Fantasy in Three Acts	Unknown
	1900-1945	'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very Fre...	Joseph Conrad	Francis Warrington Dawson	Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis	Print: Book
	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	'I am delighted and honoured by your gift of an inscribed copy [presumably of "Voices of Tomorrow" but see additional ...	Joseph Conrad	E.(Edwin) A.(August) Bjorkman	Voices of Tomorrow:Critical Studies on the New Spirit of Literature	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, see additional comment
	1900-1945	'I do hope you are not too disgusted with me for not thanking you for the "[The Brothers] Karamazov" before. It was ve...	Joseph Conrad	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. A...	Joseph Conrad	Thomas Reed	House Flags and Funnels of English and Foreign Steamship Companies	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. A...	Joseph Conrad	H.\|Henry] M.[Major] Tomlinson	The Fog	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'This ["Fountains in the Sand"] is first rate. I have seldom read prose d'une si belle tonalité.' Hence follow 23 li...	Joseph Conrad	Norman Douglas	Fountains in the Sand: Rambles among the Oases of Tunisia	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a ...	Francis Warrington Dawson	Francis Warrington Dawson	The Sin	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'It's ["The Inn of Tranquillity"] wholly excellent and certainly fascinating.[...] Of course I had read many of the pa...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Inn of Tranquillity	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the meantime I thank you heartily for your more than in one way very interesting vol.["Shadows out of the Crowd"]....	Joseph Conrad	Richard Curle	Shadows out of the Crowd	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'From that far distant day [in 1903] when (you remember?) you sent me "Leonora" it's great fundamental quality of abso...	Joseph Conrad	Arnold Bennett	Leonora	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Sunday morning, as I was out getting chocolate, I found two new manifestoes on the walls. One from a private person, ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	By or on behalf of Edme-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon	[political manifesto]	Print: Poster, election posters.
	1850-1899	'I received my father’s pamphlet and read it with great pleasure. I shall try and write of it more at large to himse...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Stevenson	Christianity Confirmed by Jewish and Heathen Testimony and the Deductions from Physical Science
	1850-1899	'"The Omadhaun" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded y...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	'The Omadhaun at the Queen's'.	Print: Serial / periodical, Account of an Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan.
	1900-1945	'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol...	Joseph Conrad	Tristan Bernard	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol...	Joseph Conrad	Elémir Bourges	Le Crépuscule des Dieux: Moeurs Contemporaines	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that vol...	Joseph Conrad	Elémir Bourges	(probably) Les oiseaux s'en volent et les fleurs tombent	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The...	Joseph Conrad	Jean Masbrenier (Mariel)		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The...	Joseph Conrad	Jean Masbrenier (Mariel)	Pierre Loti: Biographie-critique	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The...	Joseph Conrad	Jean Masbrenier (Mariel)	L'enseignement de Goethe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a secon...	Joseph Conrad	Francis Warrington Dawson	The Novel of George (published as The Pyramid)	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Forgive me for the delay in thanking you for the volume you were so kind to as to send me. How well done, well concei...	Joseph Conrad	André Ruyters	Le Mauvais Riche	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It was a joy to have your book ["Hors du Foyer"]. A thousand thanks. I have just finished reading it and, and I am ch...	Joseph Conrad	Marguerite Poradowska	Hors du Foyer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I had read some of your Philipino [sic] stories--and was looking for more of your work.I spotted it first in the old...	Joseph Conrad	James Marie Hopper	Caybigan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I didn't write to thank you for the delightful volume ["The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments"...	Joseph Conrad	J. (James) G. (Gibbons) Huneker	The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Just a word to tell you I have finished your Mother's book ["A Confederate Girl's Diary"]. Admirable.' Hence follow 1...	Joseph Conrad	Sara Morgan Dawson	A Confederate Girl's Diary	Manuscript: Proofs (see letter and fn.3 p.243 of source text)
	1900-1945	'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects ...	Joseph Conrad	Francis Warrington Dawson	Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache)	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the "Complete Works of M. Barnabooth".[...].The first read...	Joseph Conrad	Valéry-Nicolas Larbaud	A.O.Barnabooth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks. I've just read the first chapter at once to take possession and have laid the book ["The Problems of Phi...	Joseph Conrad	Bertrand Russell	The Problems of Philosophy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am glad I read the little book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] before coming to your essays ["Philosophical Essays"]...	Joseph Conrad	Bertrand Russell	Philosophical Essays	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Your good letter arrived yesterday--a great pleasure and a source of serious misgivings. I have had your latest volum...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Clifford	Malayan Monochromes	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Infinite thanks for the most precious and admirable volume [Knave of Hearts] [...] meanwhile I am as ever yours with ...	Joseph Conrad	Arthur Symons	Knave of Hearts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am proud to learn that there is [a phrase in "Lord Jim"] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of "Les...	Joseph Conrad	André Gide	Les Caves du Vatican (Book 1)	Print: see additional information
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: 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	'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	(Lady) Margaret Brooke	My Life in Sarawak	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[paper on Bunyan's writing]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif...	Mrs Smith	John Bunyan	Grace Abounding	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif...	Charles Evans	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif...	Ursula Unwin	John Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif...	Charles Stansfield	John Bunyan		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the copy of the "E.[English] R.[Review]". You won't mind me saying that your article on international poli...	Joseph Conrad	Austin Harrison	Foreign Politics	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read and signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Maurice Hewlett	Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks too for the Chinese books. I have already looked at the introduction and certain sections of the "Lute [of Jad...	Joseph Conrad	L.[Lancelot] Cranmer-Byng	A Lute of Jade: Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ...	Ernest E. Unwin	Maurice Hewlett	Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay , The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ...	Charles Evans	Maurice Hewlett		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You don't mind if I suggest that you should take a glance at Curle's short stories "Life is a Dream"-- not all in the...	Joseph Conrad	Richard Curle	Life is a Dream	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'You have succeeded so well in effacing your personality in that little book ["Tolstoy: A Study"] ( and very interesti...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	Tolstoy:A Study (also catalogued as Tolstoy: His Life and Writings)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'If we had telephonic communication I would call you up and hear me thump my chest and cry mea culpa for not having wr...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	Henry James:A Critical Study	Print: Book
	1900-1945	''We are so glad to know you are both flourishing. We know of your Sicilian interlude from your letter to the "Times".'	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy		Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I keep the two books a little longer. "Shakespeare" is good.'	Joseph Conrad	A.[Andrew] C.[Cecil] Bradley	Shakespearean Tragedy:Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch...	Rosamund Wallis	Thomas of Reading	[tale about murders in Reading]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds		'Berkshire Lady, A'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b...	Ernest E. Unwin	Thomas de Quincey	Recollections of Charles Lamb	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b...	Constance Wallis	Thomas de Quincey	Suspiria de Profundis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th...	Ernest E. Unwin	Oliver Goldsmith	Good-natured Man, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th...	Ernest E. Unwin	Oliver Goldsmith	She Stoops to Conquer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read and signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...	Charles Stansfield	John Milton	Paradise Lost	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...	Charles Evans	John Burroughs	Under the Apple Trees	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...	Charles Evans	Higson	Of an Orchard	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...	Charles Evans	Thomas Edward Brown	My Garden	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...	Charles Evans	Sidney Lanier	Ballad of Trees and the Master, A	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...	Rosamund Wallis		My Garden, a parody	Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[essay entitled 'Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's Life']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Today I saw a good review of your book ["Bernal Diaz del Castillo"] in the D[ai]ly Chr[onicle]: by some woman. I am g...	Joseph Conrad	Agnes Herbert	unknown	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the book ["The Little Man"]. "Abracadabra" is immense. Indeed every page is as full as it can be right thr...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Little Man and other satires	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'These things [proofs of "The Little Man"] are much too exquisite and poignant to be really satire even if you prefer ...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Little Man and other satires	Print: galley proofs
	1900-1945	'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ...	Joseph Conrad	W. H. (William Henry) Davies	either The Bird of Paradise and other Poems OR Nature	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ...	Joseph Conrad	unknown unknown	Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Poland	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Infinite thanks for the honour [dedication] and for the book ["The House of Many Mirrors"]. The copy having reached m...	Joseph Conrad	Violet Hunt	The House of Many Mirrors	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is a most delightful lecture and most judiciously illustrated, if a mind so uncultivated as mine dares express an ...	Joseph Conrad	Sidney Colvin	Concentration in English Poetry
	1900-1945	'Your father's book is wonderful. I read the articles of course at the time; but now collected, in the mass, they asto...	Joseph Conrad	Frederic Harrison	The German Peril: Forecasts 1864-1914, Realities 1915, Hopes 191-	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It ["The Freelands"] is a most beautifully done thing. [...]. I kept your book for a propitious day and finished it a...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Freelands	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the book which is excellent and super excellent; even to the point of making me uneasy lest its true...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	EITHER Between St Dennis and St George: A Sketch of Three Civilisations OR When Blood is their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture	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	'I was writing something so I refrained from looking at "The Good Soldier" (according to my time-honoured practice) ti...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)	The Good Soldier	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a...	Ernest E. Unwin	Samuel Pepys	Diary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a...	Rosamund Wallis	Samuel Pepys	Diary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...	Rosamund Wallis		[readings from ballads]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...	Rosamund Wallis		Thomas the Rhymer	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....	Ernest E. Unwin	James Boswell	Life of Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....	Charles Evans	James Boswell	Life of Johnson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I will talk to you at length about the stories when you are well enough to come down here for the weekend.[...]. The...	Joseph Conrad	Richard Curle	The Echo of Voices	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The "[Ivory] Apes and Peacocks" book is good and immensely characteristic of our extremely "alive" friend.' Hence fo...	Joseph Conrad	J. (James) G. (Gibbons) Huneker	Ivory Apes and Peacocks	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I was delighted with Miss Glasgow's novel ["Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage"]; the insight, the ma...	Joseph Conrad	Ellen (Anderson Gholson) Glasgow	Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	A Small Boy and Others	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit...	Joseph Conrad	Henry James	Notes of a Son and Brother	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read "[The]Advertisement" yesterday only--thrice over. très fort.'	Joseph Conrad	(Basil) Macdonald Hastings	The Advertisement: A Play in Four Acts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ever so many thanks for the honour of the dedication; and for the copy [of "Figures of Several Centuries"] which reac...	Joseph Conrad	Arthur Symons	Figures of Several Centuries	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting were read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
	1900-1945	'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[Minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
		'Mins of last meeting read & signed'	Ernest E. Unwin	Ernest E. Unwin	[minutes of XII Book Club]	Manuscript: book
		'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the...	Ernest E. Unwin	Harold Begbie	[book of 'backstairs biographies']	Print: Book
		'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the...	Charles Evans	L.P. Jacks	From the Human End	Print: Book
		'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the...	Ernest E. Unwin	L.P. Jacks	'Macbeth and Bangus upon the blasted heath'	Print: Book
		'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the...	Ernest E. Unwin	L.P. Jacks	['Snarley Bob' tales]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I see the "Obs[erv]er" every Sunday and I am waiting the next number with impatience.' [ For a review by Sidney Colvi...	Joseph Conrad		Observer newspaper	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'Of course like everybody else I was a reader of the "Singapore Free Press" which was the [underlined] paper of the Ea...	Joseph Conrad		Singapore Free Press	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for ...	Joseph Conrad	Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de)	Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entire...	St. John Ervine	Vera Brittain	Testament of Youth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi...	Charles Evans	Geoffrey Young [?]	'Mountain Playmates'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of...	Francis Pollard	Anatole France	La Reine Pedauque	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...	Charles Evans	John Masefield	'Sea Change'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...	Charles Evans	John Masefield	'Cargoes'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...	Charles Evans	John Masefield	'Ships'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...	Charles Evans	Arthur Quiller-Couch	Interlude: On Jargon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...	Charles Stansfield	Arthur Quiller-Couch	Foe-Farrell	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read...	Miss Moody		texts including 'some memoirs'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she...	Charles Stansfield	George Sand	Devil's Pool, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart...	Francis Pollard	Sabine Baring-Gould	Strange Survivals and Superstitions	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Charles Stansfield	Anthony Trollope	Doctor Thorne	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Francis Pollard	Anthony Trollope	Three Clerks, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Francis Pollard	Francis Pollard	[essay on Trollope]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....	Francis Pollard	Anthony Trollope		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d...	Charles Stansfield	William Shakespeare		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d...	Charles Stansfield	William Shakespeare	Midsummer Night's Dream, A	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...	Constance Burrow	Mark Rutherford [pseud.]	Mark Rutherford's Deliverance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...	Francis Pollard	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Giaour, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...	Charles Stansfield	Charles Stansfield	[essay on Byron]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her...	Charles Evans	Andrew Lang	Story of Joan of Arc, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her...	Charles Evans	Andrew Lang	Story of Joan of Arc, The	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her...	Charles Evans	George Bernard Shaw	St Joan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att...	Francis Pollard	William de Morgan	[novels]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic...	Francis Pollard	Walt Whitman		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o...	Rosamund Wallis	Rosamund Wallis	[paper on Anglo-India and Forster]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o...	Francis Pollard	Francis Pollard	[paper on Forster's 'A Passage to India']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o...	Francis Pollard	Edward Morgan Forster	Passage to India, A	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o...	Rosamund Wallis	Edward Morgan Forster	Passage to India, A	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo...	Charles Evans	Herman Melville	Moby Dick	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ...	Charles Stansfield	Hugh Walpole	Jeremy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan...	Francis Pollard		[catalogue of Blake's canterbury Pilgrims pictures]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow...	Charles Stansfield	Elizabeth Gaskell		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I wish I could lay my hands on the numbers of the "Review", for I know I wished to say something on that head more pa...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Arthur Patchett Martin	Bret Harte in Relation to Modern Fiction.	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I agreed pretty well with all you said about George Eliot […]'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Catherine Spence		Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel De...	Robert Louis Stevenson	George Eliot	Daniel Deronda	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Arthur Patchett Martin	'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'.	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical).
	1700-1799	'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccob...	Hester Thrale	Frances Burney	Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccob...	Samuel Johnson	Frances Burney	Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccob...	Hester Thrale	Madame Riccoboni	Tales	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to finish it. Sir Joshua R...	Sir Joshua Reynolds	Frances Burney	Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, ...	Charles James Fox	Ann Radcliffe	novels	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, ...	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Ann Radcliffe	novels	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In [1802] [...] [Amelia Opie] published a volume of poems. It included those charming and well-known lines, which, ...	James Mackintosh	Amelia Opie	verses opening 'Go, youth beloved...'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Thomas] Carlyle saw Scott's greatness in the extracts from the Diary given by Lockhart. The stern critic rightly rec...	Thomas Carlyle	Walter Scott	Journal (extracts)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk was written by [J. G.] Lockhart, aided probably by one or more [...] clever young adv...	Charlotte Sophia Scott	J. G. Lockhart	Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk	Unknown
	1700-1799	[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] From Samuel Richardson's account of his childhood, up to about age 13: 'As a...	Samuel Richardson			Print: Book
	1700-1799	Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1751: 'I have a [...] curiosity to find out the author of a book ...	Mrs Underdown		Directions for the Employment of Time	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am fallen in love with Plutarch's Morals, a little of which ...	Thomas Secker	Plutarch	Morals	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I was in Paris during the elections for the Chamber, when a triumphant majority was returned, as of course you know, ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Edmé-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon, comte de		Print: Poster
	1700-1799	Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 March 1751: 'How to account for Miss Mulso's unmerciful severity to Amelia...	Hester Mulso	Henry Fielding	Amelia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755: 'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he ha...	Bishop of Norwich		'volumes of Stoic philosophy'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ...	Charles Evans	William Henry Hudson	Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ...	Charles Evans	Charles Evans	[paper on Hudson's "Green Mansions"]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...	Francis Pollard	George Bernard Shaw	[letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...	Francis Pollard	James Matthew Barrie	[letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...	Charles Evans	Molly Elliott Seawell	The Ladies' Battle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ...	Charles Evans	Charles Reade	Hard Cash	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ...	Francis Pollard	Charles Reade	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a...	Miss Highmore	Elizabeth Carter	'To a Lady fond of Life'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a...	Mrs Donnelon	Elizabeth Carter	'To a Lady Fond of Life'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a...	Sir George Lyttleton	Elizabeth Carter	'To a Lady Fond of Life'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of...	Charles Evans	Thomas Hardy	[poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of...	Francis Pollard	Siegfried Sassoon	[poems]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of...	Charles Stansfield	Rupert Brooke		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede...	Rosamund Wallis	William Temple	[on gardens]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th...	Charles E. Stansfield	John Galsworthy	[Introduction to the 'Forsyte Saga']	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th...	Katherine S. Evans	John Galsworthy	Indian Summer of a Forsyte	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th...	Rosamund Wallis	John Galsworthy	Awakening	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th...	Francis Pollard	John Galsworthy	To Let	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ...	Francis Pollard	Leo Tolstoy	[essay on the Russian Famine]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fa...	Charles Stansfield	Rudyard Kipling	'Cold Iron'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The Subject of Fairy Stories was introduced shortly by C. E. Stansfield who followed with a reading from Rewards & Fa...	Charles Evans		'True Thomas'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro...	Francis Pollard	Voltaire [pseud.]		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books...	Francis Pollard	Arnold Bennett	[article on Hardy]	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for en...	Mrs Secker	?Elizabeth ?Carter	sonnet	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:] 'I brought with me Hurd's Dial...	Thomas Secker	Richard Hurd	Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel Considered as a Part of an English Gentleman’s Education	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The story you sent me (I'm glad to have it) I remembered of course very well. It isn't the sort of thing that is ever...	Joseph Conrad	Francis Warrington Dawson	The True Dimension	Unknown
	1850-1899	'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b...	Joseph Conrad	Ivan Turgenev	Smoke	Print: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton')
	1850-1899	'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev [sic]. As a b...	Joseph Conrad	Ivan Turgenev	A Nest of Gentlefolks	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been reading through your plays again. You are "très fait" as the French say. Tell me, had E[den] P[hillpotts...	Joseph Conrad	(Basil) Macdonald Hastings (and Eden Philpotts)	The Angel in the House	Print: probably an acting edition
	1900-1945	'Thanks for your pamphlet, to which I responded with every feeling and conviction that go to make up my "less perishab...	Joseph Conrad	William Rothenstein	A Plea for a Wider Use of Artists and Craftsmen
	1900-1945	'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one doe...	Joseph Conrad	Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett)	Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 26 January 1749:] 'I find, dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgements to...	Thomas Edwards	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi...	Thomas Edwards	Edmund Spenser	?The Works of Mr Edmund Spenser	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751: 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which...	Thomas Edwards	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:] 'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi...	Thomas Edwards	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:] 'All this while I have been hard at work upon [an edition of] Sp...	Thomas Edwards	Edmund Spenser		Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:] 'I had just been reading a paper which I met with at Aylesbury: ...	Thomas Edwards		Proposal for 'Universal Dictionary of Commerce'	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 February 1752:] 'I often entertain myself with reading over those charming...	Thomas Edwards	Hester Mulso	'Odes'	Unknown
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 March 1752, following his account of recent storm damage to rooks' nests in h...	Thomas Edwards			Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 20 March 1752:] 'As to Mr Pope, though I had some acquaintance with him, and ...	Thomas Edwards	Alexander Pope	'Essays'	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 5 March 1753:] 'I am much obliged to you for the sonnet; it is very pretty'.	Thomas Edwards	Hester Mulso	sonnet	Unknown
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 January 1754, on his return home from a stay in London:] 'I have not been ...	Thomas Edwards	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 March 1754:] 'Who is that Miss Nanny Williams who has published a pretty co...	Thomas Edwards	Anna Williams	verses addressed to Samuel Richardson	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 29 May 1754:] 'I very much wonder, how it came to pass that I did not hear a ...	Thomas Edwards	John Duncombe	The Feminiad	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:] 'I did say, and I really do think, that it is a pity so many f...	Thomas Edwards		[Poetry by women]	Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:] 'I return you many thanks for Miss Farrer's Ode on the Spring;...	Thomas Edwards	Miss Farrer	'Ode on the Spring'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:] 'The verses from my fair [italics]Pupil[end italics], as she d...	Thomas Edwards	Miss Highmore	sonnet	Unknown
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754, on his practice of writing sonnets:] 'The reading of Spenser's ...	Thomas Edwards	Edmund Spenser	Sonnets	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with yo...	Joseph Conrad	E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant Wilson	The Mainland	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This ["Beyond"] is a gripping piece of writing. I got as far as p.47 before it dawned on me that these were marvellou...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Beyond	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'PS I've seen your most charming article on the French in the "Fortnightly [Review]". '	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	France, 1916-1917: An Impression	Print: Serial / periodical
	1850-1899	'I read the preface once a day about, tell Nestor so much.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Thomas Stevenson
	1900-1945	'Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence]....	Joseph Conrad	Roman Dmowski	Russian Realities and Problems (chapter) or Problems of Central and Eastern Europe	Print: Book, see additional comment, identity of text uncertain
	1900-1945	'The first 60 pages [of "Summer"] might well have been written with one of those quill feathers one finds lying on a q...	Joseph Conrad	Edith Wharton	Summer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Your opening pages [of "Turgenev: A Study"] are excellent , excellent! I was much delighted with your masterly thrust...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	Turgenev: A Study	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning on opening my eyes I saw the noble vol [on Keats] delicately deposited by my side, while I slept, by Jes...	Joseph Conrad	Sidney Colvin	John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, and After-fame [With plates, including portraits]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's corespondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the "D[aily]...	Joseph Conrad	Reginald Perceval Gibbon	article published in "Daily Chronicle"	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'There was a study of you [André Gide] in the "Times". Have you sen it? It is intelligent up to a point and respectfu...	Joseph Conrad		article in "Times Literary Supplement"	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old an...	Joseph Conrad	Michael Monahan	New Adventures	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old an...	Joseph Conrad	Ezra Pound	Pavannes and Divisions	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Yes. I've seen "Contact's" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.'	Joseph Conrad	Alan Bott [pseud. "Contact"]	An Airman's Outings	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am of course with you entirely both as to the matter and the expression of the Agricultural pamphlet. Thanks very m...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Land: A Plea
	1900-1945	'"The Green Mirror" reached me alright.[...] I didn't write to you about it as I expected almost every day to have you...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Walpole	The Green Mirror	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My warmest thanks for the inscribed copy which arrived yesterday. The first time I read the book was in 1908, the las...	Joseph Conrad	Edmund Gosse	Father and Son:A Study of Two Temperaments	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 August 1754:] 'I give you many thanks for that sweet little Ode of Miss Far...	Thomas Edwards	Miss Farrer	'Ode to Cynthia'	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:] 'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com...	Thomas Edwards	Samuel Richardson	Pamela	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:] 'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com...	Thomas Edwards	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:] 'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As ...	Thomas Edwards	Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke	Essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755: 'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As fa...	Thomas Edwards	Alexander Pope	Essay on Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:] 'Your works are an inexhaustible fund of entertainment and ...	Thomas Edwards	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 May 1755:] 'I have lately read over with much indignation Fielding's last ...	Thomas Edwards	Henry Fielding	Voyage to Lisbon	Print: Book
	1700-1799	[Sarah Scudamore (nee Westcomb) to Samuel Richardson, 12 March 1758:] 'I've lately read over my oracle (Pamela) aga...	Sarah Scudamore	Samuel Richardson	Pamela	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Frances Sheridan to Samuel Richardson, 18 December 1757: 'I have seen some extracts from the History of the Magdale...	Frances Sheridan	unknown	History of the Magdalens (extracts)	Unknown
	1800-1849	[Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842:] 'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have l...	James Montgomery	Branwell Bronte		Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:] 'There are moments when I...	Sir John Herschel	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:] 'There are moments when I...	James Henry Leigh Hunt	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]....	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	Truth's Welcome Home	Print: proof
	1900-1945	'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]....	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	A Week in Paris	Manuscript: typescript
	1850-1899	'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame...	Joseph Conrad	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the book. I read the sketch of De la R[ochefoucauld] psychology with great delight.'	Joseph Conrad	Edmund Gosse	Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I started reading my inscribed copy [of "Mr Perrin and Mr Traill"] straight away. How well (and freshly) all this is ...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Walpole	Mr Perrin and Mr Traill: A Tragi-Comedy.	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days. Your hand also was visible in it...	Thomas Carlyle	Basil Montagu	Thoughts on Laughter By a Chancery Barrister	Unknown
	1800-1849	'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.'	Thomas Carlyle	Roger Ascham	?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster'	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Did you read Sir W Hamilton on Cousin's Metaphysics in the last Edinburgh Review? And what inferences are we to draw...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir William Hamilton	Review of Victor Cousin's 'Cours de Philosophie' (Paris, 1828) in Edinburgh Review, XCIV (OCt 1829), 194-221	Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
	1900-1945	'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...	Joseph Conrad	Theodore James Gordon Gardiner	The Reconnaissance	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].'	Joseph Conrad	Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts		Unknown
	1900-1945	'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.'	Joseph Conrad	John William Fortescue	History of the British Army: Extracts from British Campaigns in Flanders	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'That vol[ume]["Colour Studies in Paris"] is full of charm and contains many pages of rare distinction and luminous li...	Joseph Conrad	Arthur Symons	Colour Studies in Paris	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that i...	Joseph Conrad			Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the Briefechsel, a second time, with no little satisfaction; and even today am sending off an Essay on Sc...	Thomas Carlyle	Schiller & Goethe	Correspondence	Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
	1800-1849	'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I ...	Thomas Carlyle	John A. Carlyle	'Animal Magnetism'	Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
	1800-1849	'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a...	Thomas Carlyle	Friedrich Henrich von der Hagen	Literarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Poesie von der altesten Zeit, bis in das sechzhnte Jarhrundert	Print: BookUnknown
	1800-1849	'I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Boo...	Thomas Carlyle	Patrick Fraser Tytler	History of Scotland	Print: BookUnknown
	1800-1849	'The Examiner comes with perfect regularity; and tho' a week old is a great blessing. Continue it, if you can. Nay, ...	Thomas Carlyle		The Examiner	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed...	Joseph Conrad	Algernon Swinburne	A Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
	1900-1945	'Thank you for your green book which I have read with the greatest of interest.'	Joseph Conrad		Gold Coast Blue Book	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I didn't thank you for the book ["Papa's War and Other Satires" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at on...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	Papa's War and Other Satires	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I write to thank you for the book [...]. I have already seen most of the papers composing your new vol. ["Old Junk"]...	Joseph Conrad	Henry Major Tomlinson	Old Junk	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the inscribed copy. [...]. On the 28th May I finished correcting the last pages of "Rescue" [...]. Th...	Joseph Conrad	Edmund Candler	Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.'	Joseph Conrad	Edmund Candler	Siri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ever so many thanks for copy of "[The] Sepoy". Everything you write is a matter of most sympathetic interest to me; a...	Joseph Conrad	Edmund Candler	The Sepoy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The whole household went to bed early [...] then with a mind refreshed and made receptive [...] I sat down to read yo...	Joseph Conrad	Sidney Colvin	Some Personal Recollections	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'The justness of all these things said in "Another Sheaf" is what strikes one most.'	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Another Sheaf	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I return here the first volume with many thanks. It is very curious reading, but somehow one cannot take it very s...	Joseph Conrad	Wilfred Scawen Blunt	My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events,1888-1914	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is ...	Joseph Conrad	George Bradshaw (ed)	Bradshaw's Monthly General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for Great Britain and Ireland	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I fully share your admiration for Bradshaw tho' I think he goes too much into detail so that all sense of reality is ...	Joseph Conrad		The ABC or Alphabetical Railway Guide	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'This is a very interesting journal and I read it with a particular pleasure derived both from the matter and from the...	Joseph Conrad	Christopher Sandeman	[untitled]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I have read (before breakfast) your "Gambetta" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.'	Joseph Conrad	Sidney Colvin	Gambetta	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Let me thank you for the Swinburne bibliography which I've read with the greatest interest.'	Joseph Conrad	Thomas James Wise	A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Part 1)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At the beginning I must say that I have not read the tales ["Tales of a Cruel Country"] through as yet'.	Joseph Conrad	Gerald Cumberland (pseud.)	Tales of a Cruel Country	Print: Book
	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	'I was laid up directly on arriving here, and this is the explanation of the delay in thanking you for the precious...	Joseph Conrad	David Bone	Merchantmen-at-Arms:The British Merchants' Service in the War	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I know the work of Paul Adam very little and all I have in the house is his "Lettres de Malaisie".	Joseph Conrad	Paul Adam	Lettres de Malaisie	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thank you for the "Saint-Simon", which to my great joy arrived this morning. I finished the play the day before yeste...	Joseph Conrad	Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon	Les Mémoires de Saint-Simon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Just a line to thank you for the book. As I turn the pages my consideration for you grows to the proportions of respe...	Joseph Conrad	Richard Curle	Wanderings	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	'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the h...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	In Chancery	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'I finished your MS yesterday and am very much impressed by the ampleness of the scheme, the masterly ease in the h...	Jessie Conrad	John Galsworthy	Tatterdemalion	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Warm thanks for the charming copy of "Wild Oranges" which it was a great pleasure to have in this interesting form. [...	Joseph Conrad	Joseph Hergesheimer	Wild Oranges	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of th...	Joseph Conrad	Rodney Mundy	Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'E. [Edward] Grey's book, of which I have already read a considerable portion, has certainly the charm of a genuine fe...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Grey, Viscount Grey of Fallodon	Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.'	Joseph Conrad	Prosper Mérimée	Tamango	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Pray forgive me keeping your article on Mérimée so long. I read it as soon as it arrived — and then re-read i...	Joseph Conrad	Gérard Jean-Aubry	Mérimée	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'This is only to tell you that I have read the book.' [Hence follow six lines of praise.]	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Walpole	The Captives: A novel in Four Parts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks indeed for your good letter and for the little book ["La Symphonie Pastorale"] whose precious pages I wil...	Joseph Conrad	André Gide	La Symphonie Pastorale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thank you very much for Mr Holliday's book, which has certainly got a lot of good things in it and which I enjoyed gr...	Joseph Conrad	Robert Cortes Holliday		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks ever so much for the admirable book of portraits. Every one is a revelation-especially of course those of the ...	Joseph Conrad	William Rothenstein	Twenty-Four Portraits, with Critical Appreciation by Various Hands	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	'Yesterday I read the first inst[alment] of "To Let" in a spirit of philistinish curiosity.'	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	To Let	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Rudo [R.H.Sauter] shows much charm in "Awakening", which harmonised with the charm of the text in a fascinating way.'	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Awakening	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thank you very much for sending me the text [of John Galsworthy's play "The Family Man"] which I have looked over wit...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Family Man	Print: playscript
	1900-1945	'Thank you for sending me the comedy. I found it [...] interesting and greatly entertaining, which however dd not prev...	Joseph Conrad	Bruno Winawer	Ksiega Hioba (The Book of Job)	Print: playscript
	1900-1945	'I must begin by thanking you for the little book of satirical pieces ["Groteski"] which I read with great enjoyment a...	Joseph Conrad	Bruno Winawer	Groteski	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A few days ago in fact I re-read "Les Caves du Vatican", with the same intetest but with an admiration that grows on ...	Joseph Conrad	André Gide	Les Caves du Vatican	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have b...	Joseph Conrad	Frederick O'Brien	White Shadows in the South Seas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have b...	Joseph Conrad	Frederick O'Brien	Mystic Isles of the South Seas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. T...	Joseph Conrad	Stefan Zeromski	Dzieje grzechu	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. T...	Joseph Conrad	Stefan Zeromski	Popioly	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the charming copy of "The Brassbounder". It is as fresh and attarctive as ever to read and I am still...	Joseph Conrad	David Bone	The Brassbounder	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Your last letter was very nice.'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Margaret Isabella Stevenson		Manuscript: Letter
	1850-1899	'At last, son of night, I receive a communication […] Oh no, it is not the penny. It is the one-volume story demande...	Robert Louis Stevenson	William Ernest Henley		Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'I want to thank you at once for the book you have been good enough to send me.It is of course of the greatest interes...	Joseph Conrad	Harold Waldo	Stash of the Marsh County	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The readng of "Memories and Notes" has been one continuous delight. As you know I have been privileged to see some of...	Joseph Conrad	Sidney Colvin	Memories and Notes of Persons and Places, 1852-1912	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As for yourself — I have been dwelling with you mentally for several days between the covers of your book [...].'	Joseph Conrad	Bertrand Russell	Analysis of Mind	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'And first of all my tender thanks for the copy of the limited edition [...]. The reading of it was an absorbing exper...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Walpole	The Young Enchanted: A Romantic Story	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Now I have absorbed it I send you my thanks for "The Gift of Paul Clermont". It is a very charming and touching perfo...	Joseph Conrad	Francis Warrington Dawson	The Gift of Paul Clermont	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the book which has given me the greatest of pleasure. I have always had a great admiration for Sir Al...	Joseph Conrad	Alfred Comyn Lyall		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks my dearest fellow for he Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell y...	Joseph Conrad	Anton Chekhov	The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thank you, my dearest for all the books you have presented me with, in particular for Fredro, qui m'a donné un plai...	Joseph Conrad	Alexandr Fredro	Trzy po Trzy	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.'	Joseph Conrad	Jean Fayard	Oxford et Margaret	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The book you sent me was a great pleasure to me. Some of the ships I knew personally.'	Joseph Conrad	Basil Lubbock	The Colonial Clippers	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"Abdication" arrived four of five days ago. How short the book is and how much you have managed to put into it. As yo...	Joseph Conrad	Edmund Candler	Abdication	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Garnett	Friday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciation, First Series	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I was very happy to receive "La Musique et les nations" yesterday. I read the Debussy immediately and with the greate...	Joseph Conrad	Jean Aubry	La Musique et les nations	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a fe...	Robert Louis Stevenson	John Addington Symonds	Animi Figura	Manuscript: Proof copy
	1850-1899	'Thank you heartily for the Bible, which is exquisite.'	Robert Louis Stevenson		Bible	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	'I wonder what you think of my long silence after the receipt of your play ["A Tale of Young Lovers", late May]? I w...	Joseph Conrad	Cecil Roberts	A Tale of Young Lovers: A Tragedy in Four Acts	Print: Book, playscript
	1900-1945	'I dictate these few words to thank you most heartily for your letters and especially for your little tale which I hav...	Joseph Conrad	Bruno Winawer	Slepa latarka (Dark Lantern)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'For the last two days I have been reading "The [Forsythye] Saga" which makes a wonderful volume.[...] How fresh "The ...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Forsythe Saga	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read with the greatest of interest your communications to the "Times [Literary Supplement]" in the Dumas-Maquet af...	Joseph Conrad	Robert Garnett	The Dumas Maquet Case (and) Dumas and Maquet	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'When your book ["The Problem of China"] arrived we were away for a few days. Perhaps [...] I should have acknowledge...	Joseph Conrad	Bertrand Russell	The Problem of China	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I hasten therefore to tell you without a moments delay what did mean to write (or have perhaps written) that the boo...	Joseph Conrad	Clarence Andrews	Old Morocco and the Forbidden Atlas	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for D. [David]'s little tale ["Lady into Fox"]. Its the most successful thing of the kind I have ever see...	Joseph Conrad	David Garnett	Lady into Fox	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I consider myself highly privileged by the possession of an inscribed copy of the limited edition of the "Preludes"; ...	Joseph Conrad	John Drinkwater	Preludes, 1921-1922	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Ever so many thanks for the little book of fantasy and charm and sharp irony seasoning the tragic story of poor Loved...	Joseph Conrad	Fryniwyid Tennyson Jesse	The White Riband; Or a Young Female's Folly	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I've lately read nothing but Marcel Proust.'	Joseph Conrad	Marcel Proust	Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.' ...	Joseph Conrad	Marcel Proust	Swann's Way (Du coté de chez Swann	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My dear! Thank you for "Pozoga". C'est très très bien. It seizes hold and interests one as much by its subject as b...	Joseph Conrad	Zofia Kossak-Szczucka	Pozoga:Wspomieniaz Wolnia 1917-19 (The Blaze: Reminiscences of Volhynia 1917-18	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for your Laforgue. Your introduction couldn't be more interesting as regards both matter and tone. It is ...	Joseph Conrad	Jules Laforgue		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have read your delightful and penetrating (I use the word deliberately) "[Mysterious] Japan". I have the book. I wa...	Joseph Conrad	Julian Street	Mysterious Japan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Will you please give my warm regards to your husband and tell him I have just finished reading the "Rumak" with the g...	Joseph Conrad	Jan Tadeusz Zuk-Skarszewski	Rumak Swiatowida:karykatura wczorajsza (Swiatowid's Steed: A Caricature of Yesterday)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Thanks for the press cuttings. The accident on board that ship was an extraordinary one.'	Joseph Conrad	W. A. H. Mull	A True Story: Loss and Record of the Wreck of the Ship "Dalgonar" of Liverpool	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I've had the "Fortnightly [Review]" sent to me. I've just finished your "Sainte Beuve". My dear fellow! It's an admir...	Joseph Conrad	Jean Aubry	Sainte Beuve (exact title unknown)	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Best wishes for the book's career begun yesterday—wasn't it?'	Joseph Conrad	Richard Curle	Into the East: Notes on Burma and Malaya	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Your Comédie du Laboratoire is perfect. Très chic — as French painters used to say of their pictures. This fo...	Joseph Conrad	Bruno Winawer	Roztwor profesora Pytla (Professor Pytel's Solution)	Print: Book, or playscript
	1900-1945	'I liked "Engineer" very very much indeed! The idea, the execution, the style.[...] Shall I return the MS to you?'	Joseph Conrad	Bruno Winawer	R.H., Inzynier	Manuscript: Sheet
	1900-1945	'I was just about to write to you on the "Dole " articles. They are wonderfully the right thing: matter, tone, attitud...	Joseph Conrad	Richard Curle	Scandals of the Dole	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'I am sorry I put in an, apparently, unlucky form what I had to say about the two pieces of prose you sent me.'	Joseph Conrad	Liam O'Flaherty	The Cow's Death	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Thank you very much for your letter and the pamphlet in which I was very much interested.'	Joseph Conrad	David John Nicoll	"Commonweal": The Greenwich Mystery	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The vol. of your stories arrived while we were over in Havre [...]. Thanks, my dear fellow its a jolly good handful. ...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Captures	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Warmest thanks for the vol and for the inscription. Oh my dear how good how profoundly appealing all this is — ...	Joseph Conrad	Hubert Wellington	William Rothenstein	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am sending back the pamphlet of the rules of the [National] Club. It is very interesting but but it occurs to me, m...	Joseph Conrad		[Rule Book of the National Club]
	1900-1945	'Heartfelt thanks for your letter and the pamphlet about Einstein which for me is a small masterpiece of its kind.'	Joseph Conrad	Bruno Winawer	Jeszcze o Einstein: teoria wzglenosci z lotu ptaka (More about Einstein: A Bird's-eye View of the Theory of Relativity
	1900-1945	'Thank you for your little book of innermost thoughts.[...] And you have proved your excellent humanity by the manner ...	Joseph Conrad	Christopher Morley	Inward Ho!	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have been laid up for days and days and your volume of H[udson]'s letters was the most welcome alleviation to the w...	Joseph Conrad	William Henry Hudson	153 Letters from W. H. Hudson	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am better now and hasten to thank you for the more than generous sample of the "Criterion" which is really very goo...	Joseph Conrad		The Criterion	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the two copies, especially the grand format, of Crane's biography. Both sizes are very attractively g...	Joseph Conrad	Thomas Beer	Stephen Crane: A Study in American Letters with an introduction by Joseph Conrad	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sorry I am late in thanking you for the little book and the friendly inscription. I greatly enjoyed the parodies on th...	Joseph Conrad	Christopher Ward	The Triumph of the Nut and Other Parodies	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Have you seen Gwatkin? His novel is not bad and I can see now why it had that sale. Shall I send it to you or has he ...	Joseph Conrad	John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin]	Kimono	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am wholly delighted with your "R.[iceyman] S.[teps]. Wholly. You will give me credit for not having missed any spec...	Joseph Conrad	Enoch Arnold Bennett	Riceyman Steps	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I read with the greatest pleasue what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made...	Joseph Conrad	Allan Monkhouse	A Bookman's Notes	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899	'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and mad...	Joseph Conrad	Anthony Trollope	Phineas Finn: The Irish Member	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The play arrived yesterday and I read it in the evening (the proper time for plays) with the greatest appreciation.' ...	Joseph Conrad	Allan Monkhouse		Print: Book, playscript
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for "La Maison natale", which you have so kindly sent me. I have just finished reading it and am greatly ...	Joseph Conrad	Jacques Copeau	La Maison natale	Print: Book, playscript
	1900-1945	'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr...	Joseph Conrad	Roman Dyboski	Modern Polish Literature: a course of lectures delivered in the School of Slavonic studies, King's College, University of London	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr...	Joseph Conrad	Roman Dyboski	Periods of Polish Literary History: Being the Ilchester lectures for the year 1923	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am sorry I am so late in thanking you for the two vols of Polish Literature which I have read with the highest appr...	Joseph Conrad	Roman Dyboski	?The Religious Element in Polish National Life
	1900-1945	'I had letter from Sir Hugh Clifford. He sends me six copies of his address to the Legislative Council.[...] The repor...	Joseph Conrad	Hugh Clifford	Address to the Legislative Council of Nigeria
	1900-1945	'Thank you for the magazines and books. I haven't yet dipped into the novel. I am very touched by the favourable respo...	Joseph Conrad		Robotnik (The Worker)	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Today's "J[ohn] B[lunt]" is particularly good. [...] The last three "Blunts" were remarkably good.'	Joseph Conrad	Richard Curle [writing as 'John Blunt']	I Say	Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the "[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]". D[avid] may be ...	Joseph Conrad	David Garnett	A Man in the Zoo	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'As to the novel I think that between us two, if I tell you that I consider it "tout à fait chic" you will understand...	Joseph Conrad	Ford Madox Ford	Some Do Not	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for letting me have a view of the Nelson letter which is most interesting. I appreciate very much you tak...	Joseph Conrad	Horatio Nelson		Manuscript: Letter
	1900-1945	'Forgive me for not thanking you sooner for the book ["Incidences"]. It's my gouty wrist I can barely hold a pen. But ...	Joseph Conrad	André Gide	Incidences	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My gouty wrist has kept me from thanking you immediately for the volume of poems that you so kindly sent me. [...] Wh...	Joseph Conrad	Louis-Marie-Emile Roché	Temps perdu	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My warm thanks for the inscribed copy of "Bolshevik Persecution" you have been kind enough to send me. I have read wi...	Joseph Conrad	Francis McCullagh	The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I feel compunctions not having written before about "The Forest" — a piece of work to which I came with the gre...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	The Forest	Print: playscript
	1850-1899	'As to your verses. May I keep them? Of course now you say you will not finish the poem — and it may be true &md...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Lancelot Sanderson	An Episode of Southern Seas	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Even H. Norman corroborates me out of his short experience. See his "Far East".'	Joseph Conrad	Henry Norman	The Peoples and Politics of the Far East:Travels and Studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and Malaya	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Thanks for the copy of "Good Reading". It's a charming little book.'	Joseph Conrad	John Millar	Books: A Guide to Good Reading	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I simply had to tell you having been impressed by seeing for the first time in my life a work of imagination acting u...	Joseph Conrad	John Galsworthy	Strife	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Fa...	Joseph Conrad	Ivan Turgenev	A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Many thanks for the copy of your book which I have read with the greatest of interest and pleasure.'	Joseph Conrad	James Johnston Abraham	A Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I ha...	Joseph Conrad	Violet Hunt	The House of Many Mirrors	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'That's first rate stuff. I have read all but two of the stories, which'll have their turn this afternoon and I shall ...	Joseph Conrad	Edmund Candler	The General Plan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have this moment received your very kind letter with the enclosure of verse for which I hasten to send you my warm ...	Joseph Conrad	David Morton	?Old Ships	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It ...	Joseph Conrad	Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer)	Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Grand-daughter	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It is years since I have read "Candide" of course in French. I must tell you I have been immensely pleased by the par...	Joseph Conrad	François-Marie Arouet Voltaire	Candide	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo...	Joseph Conrad	Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle]	Vie de Napoléon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo...	Joseph Conrad	Gaspard Gourgaud	Journal de Ste. Hélène 1815-1818	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo...	Joseph Conrad	Marcellin Pellet	Napoléon à l'île d'Elbe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo...	Joseph Conrad	Paul Gruyer	Napoléon, roi de l' île d'Elbe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo...	Joseph Conrad	Jean Rapp	Mémoires écrits par lui-même	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo...	Joseph Conrad	Léon Lanzac de Laborie	Paris sous Napoléon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But...	Joseph Conrad	George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt]	The Ascending Effort	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". "Mr Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Owl a...	Joseph Conrad	Edward Lear	Nonsense Songs and Stories	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At other times he would tell me about the Malay Archipelago and the Malays and show me pictures in A. R. Wallace's...	Joseph Conrad	Alfred Russel Wallace	The Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am pretty sure that J[oseph] C[onrad] read it [the bound Christmas annual of "Boy's Own Paper"] after I had gone to...	Joseph Conrad		Boy's Own Annual	Print: Book, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude an...	Joseph Conrad		La Vie Parisienne	Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'He enjoyed stories that were really funny but had no time for anything that was indecent though he was not a prude an...	Joseph Conrad		Punch	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'He admired Edward Lear and would spend whole evenings reading "The Nonsense Songs and Stories" and he was also very f...	Joseph Conrad	Lewis Carroll [pseud.]	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the Looking Glass	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'He would say he bought books to read, not to stare at their backs on a shelf while they collected dust over the years...	Joseph Conrad			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	William Wymark Jacobs		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	Max Adeler pseud. i.e Charles Heber Clark	Out of the Hurly Burly: or Life in an Odd Corner	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	Guy De Maupassant		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	Gustave Flaubert		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	John Galsworthy		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
	1900-1945	' Most mornings he spent reading the papers until about half past ten, then answered any letters that had come [...].'	Joseph Conrad			Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'[...] two or three times a week after dinner we got out the chessmen and board and spent a couple of hours playing th...	Joseph Conrad	José Raul Capablanca	My Chess Career or Chess Fundamentals	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'If my father saw my mother, brother or myself reading a book he would cruise around and pounce on it if we put it dow...	Joseph Conrad			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The night before we left [Montpellier]was one of the worst I have ever spent. Joseph Conrad was still handicapped by ...	Joseph Conrad
	1900-1945	'At another time he insisted that the gardener should remove all the plants from the tall stage in the glass house, th...	Joseph Conrad			Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, ...	Charles Dickens		The Terrific Register	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Once or twice I left the safety of the trench and went out alone, down the hill towards Sailly-le-Sec ... I told myse...	Patrick James Campbell			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Three o'clock. I was trying to read my book, but I did not take in what I was reading. Instead of words on the page, ...	Patrick James Campbell			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'"Read that," [Major Cecil] said, when he came to where I was standing. It was an envelope, an ordinary envelope, a...	Patrick James Campbell			Print: Orders for the day.
	1900-1945	[Campbell is describing entering a German dugout captured after a successful offensive] 'Their home was very like o...	Patrick James Campbell			Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slo...	Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan	Alexander Smith	"Barbara"	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'	Thomas Carlyle	John A. Carlyle	Review of Sir Walter Scott's 'Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, II'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'	Thomas Carlyle	John A. Carlyle	'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St John Long'	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ...	Sylvanus Reynolds	anon	Arden of Faversham
	1900-1945	'We are to make roads for the next few days. Out occasionally on work parties. Those officers not on duty all stayed i...	Robert Lindsay Mackay			Unknown
	1900-1945	There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs...	Charles I. Evans	Ben Jonson	Epicoene, or the Silent Woman	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Dined with 'A' Company. Read the Browning Love Letters at night, in bed. Disappointed, though not displeased. Felt I ...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Church parade. Cricket against Royal Scots. Did rather well. Won by 1 run. Reading the Browning Love letters in my sp...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Out training signallers and observers. The former very efficient, the latter the very reverse. We are to move on the ...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Gene Stratton-Porter	Michael O'Halloran: A Novel	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I've read so many descriptions in newspapers of the ruin and desolation caused in this war. Famous literary men have ...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Gilbert Frankau		Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Sunday 12th. August. Church parade. New minister. Rather enjoyed the sermon. Easy afternoon. Finished Vol. 1 of the B...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that th...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	James Shirley	'Death the Leveller'	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Bn. moved into Left sector. Macleod came back to "details" for a rest, and I went in as a/adjutant. Weather wet and c...	Robert Lindsay Mackay		[telegrams, letters, and reports]	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.'	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Finished the Browning Letters - one of the biggest feats of the war! It has taken a tremendous effort of will on my p...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Robert Browning	The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Saw most exciting smash of an aeroplane against the buildings and tents of the 13th. Squadron R.F.C. Machine turned t...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Herbert George Wells	Ann Veronica	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Sunday 17th. Am pretty sure I will get back to the Battalion soon. Went to St. Pol, had lunch, bought some books. Sto...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Edward Verrall Lucas	Mr. Ingleside	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'April 1st. 1918. We came out of the line at night. Back to Arras. H.Q. in cellars in the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall...	Robert Lindsay Mackay	Henry Jones	?Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Tried stout for lunch. At 10 p.m. had stout and strawberries and cream given me (after it was dark) by two of the sis...	Robert Lindsay Mackay		['some novels']	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'Grouped into platoons. Lectures. Finished "Soldier Poets".'	Robert Lindsay Mackay		Soldier Poets: Songs of the Fighting Men	Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
	1900-1945	'F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part...	Francis Pollard	William Shakespeare	The Two Noble Kinsmen
	1900-1945	F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part ...	Katharine S. Evans	Shakespeare and Fletcher	The Two Noble Kinsmen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Me...	Charles E. Stansfield	Nicholas Udall	Ralph Roister Doister	Print: Book
	1900-1945	The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Me...	Thomas C. Elliott	Nicholas Udall	Ralph Roister Doister	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair 1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...	Thomas C. Elliott	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair 1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...	Charles E. Stansfield	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair 1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair 1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...	Rosamund Wallis	William Shakespeare	The Tempest	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved<...	Charles E. Stansfield	Plato	‘Allegory of the Cave’ from Book 7 of The Republic	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved<...	Francis Pollard	Francis Pollard	Plato’s Philosophy: Ideas the true reality	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair 1. Minutes of last time read and approved<...	Thomas C. Elliot	Plato	Phaedo [The account of Socrates' death]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv...	Thomas C. Elliott	Thomas C. Elliott	[An estimate of Vitor Hugo's verse and his position in French literature]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv...	Thomas C. Elliott	Victor Hugo	Booz endormi, from La légende des siècles	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv...	Thomas C. Elliott	Victor Hugo	L’Expiation (section on Waterloo)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	William Shakespeare	Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved	Charles E. Stansfield	William Shakespeare	Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved	Francis Pollard	Jerome K. Jerome	Three Men in a Boat
	1900-1945	'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and ...	Siegfried Sassoon	Robert Graves		Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929 Geo H Burrow in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...	Francis Pollard	Francis Pollard	[A survey of modern American literature]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929 Geo H Burrow in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...	Rosamund Wallis	Thornton Wilder	The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929 Geo H Burrow in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...	Thomas C. Elliott	George Santayana	[An essay on war]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929 Geo H Burrow in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...	Charles E. Stansfield	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Renascence and Other Poems	Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair Min 1. Minutes o...	Charles E. Stansfield	Charles E. Stansfield	[essay on a Swiss holiday]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time re...	Francis Pollard	Gilbert Murray	[Introduction to his translation of Euripides’ Alcestis]	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair 1. Minutes of last time re...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Euripides	Alcestis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930 G. Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved ...	Thomas C. Elliott	John Galsworthy	The Roof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930 G. Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved ...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	John Galsworthy	The Roof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930 G. Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved ...	Rosamund Wallis	John Galsworthy	The Roof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930 G. Burrow in the chair 1. Minutes of last read and approved ...	Francis Pollard	John Galsworthy	The Roof	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930 H. M. Wallis in the chair Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	John Masefield	Philip the King	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Dear Sir,—I have received your beautiful volume, probably the finest bit of typography that ever came before me; an...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Story	The Poetical Works Of Robert Story	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, - a ...	Charles Lamb	Robert Southey	[extracts from the "Epics" published in the "Monthly Review"]	Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from book in periodical.
	1700-1799	'Your poems I shall procure forthwith. There were noble lines in what you inserted in one of your Numbers from Religi...	Charles Lamb	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Religious Musings	Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from poems in periodical.
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [....	Charles E. Stansfield	Osbert or Sacheverell Sitwell		Unknown
	1850-1899	'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Frederic Soulie	La Lionne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by L...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Frederic Soulie	La Comtesse de Monrion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by L...	Robert Louis Stevenson	Frederic Soulie	Le Fils de la Folle	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932. Francis Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes...	Francis E. Pollard	Francis E. Pollard	[on the spirit of cricket]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32. George Burrow in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last appr...	Charles E. Stansfield	Molière [pseud.]	The Misanthrope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32. George Burrow in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last appr...	Francis E. Pollard	Molière [pseud.]	The Misanthrope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32. George Burrow in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last appr...	Rosamund Wallis	Molière [pseud.]	The Misanthrope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32. George Burrow in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last appr...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Molière [pseud.]	The Misanthrope	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32 Reginald H. Robson in the Chair. 1. Minutes o...	Charles E. Stansfield	Charles E. Stansfield	[a paper on Goethe]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32. Henry M. Wallis in the chair 1. Minutes of las...	Francis E. Pollard	Francis E. Pollard	[an account of the life of Walter Scott]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32. Henry M. Wallis in the chair 1. Minutes of las...	Charles E. Stansfield	Walter Scott	Ivanhoe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32. Henry M. Wallis in the chair 1. Minutes of las...	Francis E. Pollard	Walter Scott	The Heart of Midlothian	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32. Henry M. Wallis in the chair 1. Minutes of las...	Rosamund Wallis	Walter Scott	Old Mortality	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of l...	Charles E. Stansfield	Henry M. Wallis	[Of a medium, a photograph, a Twentieth Century Officer & a suit of medieval armour]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933 C. E. Stansfield in the chair 1 Minutes of l...	Charles E. Stansfield	Thomas Hughes	Tom Brown's Schooldays	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933 C. E. Stansfield in the chair 1 Minutes of l...	Charles E. Stansfield	Charles E. Stansfield	[an introduction to 'Sumer Is Icumen In']	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933 C. E. Stansfield in the chair 1 Minutes of l...	Francis E. Pollard	Francis E. Pollard	[a short account of the life and work of Mary Russell Mitford]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair. 1. Minute...	Francis E. Pollard	Howard Smith	Newcomers to Reading	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair. 1. Minute...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Henry Marriage Wallis	My dear Twelve	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35. Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair 1. Minutes of...	Charles E. Stansfield	William Wordsworth	Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	Unknown
	1850-1899	'A capital review of Inland Voyage in the New York Critic for June 2nd.'	Robert Louis Stevenson		[review of "Inland Voyage" in the "New York Critic"]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of ...	Rosamund Wallis	Ann Bridge	Illyrian Spring	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35 Francis E. Pollard in the Chair. 1. Minutes of la...	Francis E. Pollard	H. A. L. Fisher	History of Europe	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] &...	Frances Stevenson	Herbert George Wells	The Wife of Sir Eric Harman	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] &...	Frances Stevenson	Herbert George Wells	Anne Veronica	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throw...	Frances Stevenson	George Meredith	The Egoist	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37. Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair. 1. Minute...	Francis E. Pollard	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37. Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair. 1. Minute...	Francis E. Pollard	Lucy Harrison	A Lover of Books: The Life and Literary Papers of Lucy Harrison	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37. C. E. Stanfield in the Chair. 1. Minutes of la...	Charles E. Stansfield	Charles E. Stansfield	[a biographical sketch of Percy Bysshe Shelley with an estimate of his views and character]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last ...	Francis E. Pollard	William Shakespeare	Macbeth	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37. Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last ...	Rosamund Wallis	Mary Webb	Precious Bane	Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Hillsborough :- 14. 9. 37. Reginald H. Robson in the Chair. 1. Minutes of ...	Charles E. Stansfield	J. M. Barrie	My Lady Nicotine	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. T...	Francis E. Pollard	William Fryer Harvey	August Heat	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. T...	Charles E. Stansfield	William Fryer Harvey	Laughter and Ghosts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37. L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last re...	Rosamund Wallis	Laurence Housman	Victoria Regina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37. L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair. 1. Minutes of last re...	Francis E. Pollard	Laurence Housman	Victoria Regina	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37 [...] 6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	John Galsworthy	The White Monkey	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38. F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes...	Charles E. Stansfield	Charles E. Stansfield	[A detailed biographical sketch of Æ (AE, or George William Russell)]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38. F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes...	Francis E. Pollard	Æ [pseud.]	The one dimensional mind	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38. F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes...	Francis E. Pollard	Æ [pseud.]	[One or more unidentified poems]	Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38. F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes...	Rosamund Wallis	J. M. Synge	The Tinker’s Wedding	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” ...	Mary S. Stansfield	A. W. Lawrence	Lawrence by his Friends	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” ...	Francis E. Pollard	John A. Spender	The Comments of Bagshot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” ...	Francis E. Pollard	John A. Spender	The Comments of Bagshot	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” ...	Francis E. Pollard	Kurt Von Stutterheim	Those English!	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” ...	Francis E. Pollard	Kurt Von Stutterheim	Those English!	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38. 1. Minutes of last read and approved. [...] 4. Readings from Iri...	Charles E. Stansfield	George A. Birmingham	Spanish Gold	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38. 1. Minutes of last read and approved. [...] 4. Readings from Iri...	Charles E. Stansfield	George A. Birmingham	Spanish Gold	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38. 1. Minutes of last read and approved. [...] 4. Readings from Iri...	Rosamund Wallis	unknown	[a specimen of Irish literature]	Unknown
	1900-1945	Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38. 1. Minutes of last read and approved. [...] 4. Readings from Iri...	Elsie Sikes	unknown	[Irish Bulls]	Unknown
	1900-1945	'Here I sit reading the Saturday Review, New Statesman etc and feeling rather humpy.'	Siegfried Sassoon		Saturday Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.'	Siegfried Sassoon	Thomas Hardy	The Return of the Native	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me a...	Siegfried Sassoon	Robert Curzon	Visits to Monasteries in the Lavant	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'After a stormy passage I find myself once more at Alexandria and Sheyk Obeyd. During the voyage I read Frederick [sic...	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Frederic Harrison	Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my p...	Alfred Russel Wallace	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	The Shame of the Nineteenth Century: A Letter Addressed to the "Times"
	1900-1945	'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my p...	Alfred Russel Wallace		Light	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case ag...	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Ralph Milbanke	Astarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord Byron	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about t...	Douglas Herbert Bell			Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by pos...	Douglas Herbert Bell			Print: Newspaper
	1900-1945	'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of period...	Douglas Herbert Bell			Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, ...	Douglas Herbert Bell		[Address by the Bishop of London at Guildhall, 1914]	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to t...	Douglas Herbert Bell			Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to t...	Douglas Herbert Bell		[Army Communique]	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kip...	Douglas Herbert Bell	Rudyard Kipling		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty...	Douglas Herbert Bell	George William Russell	"Shadows and Lights"	Print: Unknown
	1900-1945	'Glorious day, warm sun. It is funny to sit here quietly chatting and reading with a peaceful view behind over field a...	Douglas Herbert Bell			Unknown
	1900-1945	'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to h...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Henry Jones	Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to h...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Thomas Carlyle	Sartor Resartus	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool		The Fellowship Hymn-Book	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Richard Weymouth	The Naval, Military and Village Hymn Book	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Walther Rauschenbusch	Christianity and the Social Crisis	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Harry Emerson Fosdick	The Meaning of Prayer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Harry Emerson Fosdick	The Manhood of the Master	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Student Christian Movement	A Book of Prayers for Students	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Emil Otto	?An Elementary German Grammar	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Charles Hugo	?German Grammar Simplified	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool		The New Testament	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...	Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Faust	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English. To get over this handicap, I tried...	William Collis Spackman		La Vie Parisienne	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'My difficulties were much increased because none of the Turks could speak English. To get over this handicap, I tried...	William Collis Spackman		"salty French novels"	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'... as we drifted gaily down the sparkling river [Tigris] in perfect autumnal weather, I thought of Browning's [itali...	William Collis Spackman	Robert Browning	"The Wanderers"	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consistin...	Douglas Lyall Grant		[POW camp publication]	Print: Serial / periodical

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