√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 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 | 'I allude to my old friend, and your acquaintance, the Ettrick Shepherd (for I will not mention him by the unpoetical ... | Walter Scott | James Hogg | [ballads] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many of my friends are of the same opinion with you at least with regard to the tales of the Spy. Mr Walr. Scott says... | Walter Scott | James Hogg | [Tales published in the Spy] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | George Crabbe | Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | George Crabbe | Library, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | Dodsley | [Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Library'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | Dodsley | [Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Village'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for ... | Walter Scott | George Crabbe | Patron, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To my Gothic ear, indeed the "Stabat Mater", the "Dies Irae", and some of the other hymns of the Catholic Church are ... | Walter Scott | George Buchanan | [Latin poems and hymns] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe had sent Scott, who already had one, a set of his works - he explained later that he'd intended it for Mrs Sc... | Walter Scott | George Crabbe | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 26 March 1826:
'I enclose a letter for your funny namesake and kinsman, whose w... | Walter Scott | T. Crofton Croker | Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 30 January 1829:
'I [...] rejoice to learn from yourself that you are seriously... | Walter Scott | Justinian | 'Institutes and Pandects' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He has infinite wit and a great turn for antiquarian lore as the publications of Kirkton etc. bear witness.' | Walter Scott | James Kirkton | Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the year 1678 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott quotes four lines from 'My Jo Janet' in Allan Ramsay's 'Tea-Table Miscellany'. | Walter Scott | Allan Ramsay | Tea-Table Miscellany: My Jo Janet | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott quotes two lines from 'The Vocal Miscellany': 'Come, come my Hearts of Gold' (163) and ' Every man take a... | Walter Scott | | The Vocal Miscellany | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott adapts one line from Henry Fielding's 'Tom Thumb the Great'. | Walter Scott | Henry Fielding | Tom Thumb the Great | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Jeffrey's neat and well intended address to the Mechanics upon their combinations.' | Walter Scott | Francis Jeffrey | Edinburgh Review: Combinations of Workmen | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron's example has formed a sort of Upper House of poetry. There is Lord Leveson Gower a very clever young man. Lo... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There are besides, Sir Adam Fergusson, Colin Mackenzie, James Hope, Dr. James Buchan, Claud Russell, and perhaps two ... | Walter Scott | Virgil | Aeneid | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should be sorry the saying were verified in him
So wise and young they say never live long.' | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Never was there such a representative of Wall in Pyramus and Thisbe.' | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three days ago I would have been contented to buy this consola as Judy says, dearer than by a dozen falls in the mud ... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Just as this is written enter my Lord of St Albans and Lady Charlotte to beg I recommend a book of sermons to Mrs. Co... | Walter Scott | John Logan | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Which resolutions with health and my habits of indutry will make me 'Sleep in spite of thunder'. | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I had a letter from Murray in answer to one I had written in something of a determined stile for I had no i... | Walter Scott | John Murray | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I begin to find like Joseph Surface that too good a character is inconvenient.' | Walter Scott | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I don't know what I have done to gain so much credit for generosity but I suspect I owe it to being supposed, as Puff... | Walter Scott | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The Critic | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | A letter from Southey, malcontent about Murray having accomplished the change in the Quarterly without speaking to him... | Walter Scott | Robert Southey | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 20 November 1825 (first entry):
'I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular [journal] [...]... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | memoranda | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 8 December 1825:
'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeed... | Walter Scott | William Knox | The Lonely Hearth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 8 December 1825:
'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeed... | Walter Scott | William Knox | 'Spiritual hymns' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 9 December 1825:
'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebr... | Walter Scott | Harriet Wilson | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 12 February 1826;
'Read a few pages of Will d'Avenant who was fond of having it supposed that Shakespeare
... | Walter Scott | William Davenant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 19 February 1826;
'Being troubled with thick-coming fancies and a slight palpitation of the heart I have be... | Walter Scott | G. Chastellain | Vie de Jacques de Lalaine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 23 February 1826:
'Read a little volume called the OMEN very well written, deep and powerfull language [.... | Walter Scott | John Galt | The Omen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 2 March 1826:
'Slept indifferently and dreamd of Napoleon's last moments and last illness of which I was ... | Walter Scott | Dr Arnott | An Account of the Last Illness, Decease, etc. of Napoleon Bonaparte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 8 March 1826:
'Being jaded and sleepy I took up Le Duc de Guise en Naples. I think this, with the old Me... | Walter Scott | M. De Pastoret | Le Duc de Guise a Naples etc. en 1647 et 1648 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 10 March 1826:
'Breakfasted with me Mr. Francks [...] and Captain Longmore of the Royal Staff. He has writt... | Walter Scott | Captain George Longmore | Tales of Chivalry and Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 10 March 1826:
'[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer ... | Walter Scott | Henry Weber | Metrical Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 10 March 1826:
'[Henry Weber] was a man of very superior attainments, an excellent linguist and geographer ... | Walter Scott | Ritson | Ancient English Metrical Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 14 March 1826:
'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over... | Walter Scott | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | O'Donnel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 14 March 1826:
'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over... | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 16 March 1826:
'In the evening after dinner read Mrs. Charlotte Smith's novel Desmond, decidedly the wors... | Walter Scott | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 28 March 1826:
'Reading at intervals a novel called Grandby [sic] one of that very difficult class which a... | Walter Scott | T. H. Lister | Granby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 5 April 1826:
'Read Clapperton's journey and Denman's [sic] into Bornou -- very entertaining and less
... | Walter Scott | Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and Doctor Oudney | Narrative of Travels in Northern and Central Africa in 1822, 1823, and 1834 [sic in source] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday 9 April 1826:
'Lockhart's Review -- Don't like his article on Sheridan's Life. There is no breadth in it, no... | Walter Scott | J. G. Lockhart | review of Thomas Moore, Life of Sheridan | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 16 July 1826:
'Very unsatisfactory to-day. Sleepy, stupid, indolent -- finished arranging the books and aft... | Walter Scott | | 'The murder of [William] Weare by Thurtell and Co. at Gill's-Hill, in Hertfordshire' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 1 August 1826:
'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me ab... | Walter Scott | Middleton | Michaelmas Term | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 1 August 1826:
'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me ab... | Walter Scott | Wentworth Smith | The Hector of Germany, or The Palsgrave | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early
English Romances, and th... | Walter Scott | George Ellis | Specimens of the Early English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early
English Romances, and th... | Walter Scott | George Ellis | Specimens of Early English Romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the
family circle.' | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the
family circle.' | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 17 October 1826:
'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as ... | Walter Scott | Harrison Ainsworth | Sir John Chiverton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 17 October 1826:
'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as ... | Walter Scott | John Smith | Brambletye House | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 19 October 1826:
'I rose at my usual time [7 am] but could not write so read Southey['s] History of the P... | Walter Scott | Robert Southey | History of the Peninsular War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 4 January 1827:
'After tea I broke off work and read my young folks the farce of The Critic and "merry fo... | Walter Scott | R. B. Sheridan | The Critic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 6 January 1827:
'In the evening read Foote's farce of the Commissary, said to have been levelled at Sir L... | Walter Scott | Foote | The Commissary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainm... | Walter Scott | | report of funeral of William Gifford | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainm... | Walter Scott | William Gifford | translation of Juvenal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainm... | Walter Scott | William Gifford | The Baviad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 17 January 1827:
'I observed in the papers my old friend Gifford's funeral. He was a man of rare attainm... | Walter Scott | William Gifford | The Maeviad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 23 January 1827:
'Betwixt dinner and tea while husbanding a tumbler of whisky and water I read the new nov... | Walter Scott | Christian Isobel Johnson | Elizabeth de Bruce | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 27 January 1827:
'Read Elizth. de Bruce -- it is very clever but does not show much originality: the char... | Walter Scott | Christian Isobel Johnson | Elizabeth de Bruce | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'An excellent plot, excellent friends, and full of preparations'.
Footnote: An allusion to Hotspur's plot in I Henr... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am come to the time when those who look out at the windows shall be darkend.' | Walter Scott | | Bible: Ecclesiastes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 10 February 1827:
'I got a present of Lord Frederick Leveson Gower's printed but unpublishd "Tale of the ... | Walter Scott | Lord Frederick Leveson Gower | Tale of the Mill | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Thursday, 1 March 1827:
'By the bye it is the anniversary of Bosworth field. In former days Richd. IIId. was always... | Walter Scott | Horace Walpole | Historic Doubts on Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments... | Walter Scott | Samuel Foote | The Maid of Bath | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 10 March 1827:
'About three o'clock I got to a meeting of the Bannatyne club [...] Thomson is superintend... | Walter Scott | Sir James Melville | Memoirs | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 12 March 1827:
'I have been trying to read a new novel which I have heard praised. It is calld Almacks an[d... | Walter Scott | | Almacks | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 22 April 1827:
'Wrought [i.e. worked] in the afternoon and tried to read De Vere, a sensible but heavy book... | Walter Scott | Robert Ward | De Vere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 13 May 1827:
'Spent the day, which was delightful, wandering from place to place in the woods, sometimes re... | Walter Scott | Captain Thomas Hamilton | The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 8 June 1827:
'I was fatigued and sleepy when I go[t] home [from business meetings] and nodded, I think, ove... | Walter Scott | Sir James Melville | Memoirs | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 11 June 1827:
'The attendance on the committee and afterwards the Gnl meeting of the Oil Gas Company took u... | Walter Scott | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 4 July 1827:
'Read De Vere the rest. It is well written in point of language and sentiment but has too l... | Walter Scott | Robert Ward | De Vere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 1 August 1827:
'Smoked a cigar after dinner, laughd with my daughters and read them the review of Hoffma... | Walter Scott | Walter Scott | article on E. T. W. Hoffmann | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 3 August 1827:
'Huntley Gordon lent me a volume of his father's Manuscript Memoirs. They are not without in... | Walter Scott | Pryce Gordon | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 14 September 1827:
'Read a Refutation as it calls itself of Napoleon's history. It is so very polite and ac... | Walter Scott | | 'Refutation' of Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 18 September 1827:
'Whiled away the evening over one of Miss Austen's Novels; there is a truth of painting... | Walter Scott | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 27 September 1827:
'We dined at Gattonside with Mr. Bembridge who kindly presented me with 6 bottles of s... | Walter Scott | | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Some months since I joined with other literary folks in subscribing a petition for a pension to Mrs. G- of L-n which ... | Walter Scott | Anne Grant | Memoirs of a Highland Lady | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 14 November 1827:
'Read the Gazette of the great battle of Navarrino in which we have thumped the Turks ... | Walter Scott | | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 15 November 1827:
'Met with Chambers and complimented him about his making a clever book of the 1745 for ... | Walter Scott | Robert Chambers | History of the Rebellion 1745-6 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 14 January 1828:
'I read Cooper's new novel work, the Red Rover; the current of the [novel] rolls entirely ... | Walter Scott | Cooper | Red Rover | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 28 January 1828:
'I have read Cooper's Prairie, better I think than his Red Rover in which you never got fo... | Walter Scott | James Fenimore Cooper | Prairie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday 21 February 1828:
'Last night after dinner I rested from my work and read third part of Sayings and Doings... | Walter Scott | Theodore Hook | Sayings and Doings (third series) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 23 February 1828:
'I saw at the printing office [Ballantyne's] a part of a review on Leigh Hunt's Anecdot... | Walter Scott | Wilson | review of Leigh Hunt, Anecdotes of Byron | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 13 March 1828:
'I found that like the foolish virgins the servants had omitted to get oil for my lamp so ... | Walter Scott | Gerald Griffin | Tales of the Munster Festivals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 28 March 1828:
'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a r... | Walter Scott | James Thomson | Tales of an Antiquary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 26 May 1828:
'I walkd down to call with [Samuel] Rogers on Mrs. D'Arblay. She shewd me some notes which she... | Walter Scott | Frances Burney | notes 'about her novels' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 29 May 1828:
'I have amused myself to-day with reading Lockhart's Life of Burns which is very well writte... | Walter Scott | Lockhart | Life of Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 31 May 1828:
'I have finishd Napier's War in the Peninsula. It is written in the spirit of a Liberal but ... | Walter Scott | Colonel W. F. P. Napier | History of War in the Peninsula (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 1 June 1828:
'We reachd Carlisle at seven o' clock and were housed for the night. My books being exhausted ... | Walter Scott | | The Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 3 June 1828:
'I smoked a segar, slept away an hour and read Mure of Auchendrayne's trial and thus ended th... | Walter Scott | | Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. etc. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 4 June 1828:
'Started [for Edinburgh] at half past four and arrived at home if we must call it so at nin... | Walter Scott | | Scotch Trials, containing Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. etc. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 23 January 1829:
'Mr. Bell sends me a spec[i]ment [sic] of a Historical novel but he goes not the way to... | Walter Scott | Bell | 'specimen of a historical novel' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 31 January 1829:
'Lookd over Cumnor Hall by Mr. Usher Tighe of Oxford.' | Walter Scott | H. U. Tighe | Historical Account of Cumnor ... illustrative of the Romance of Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 10 February 1829:
'I read over Henry's History of Henry VI and Edward IV. He is but a stupid historian aft... | Walter Scott | The Revd. Dr. R. Henry | History of Great Britain; from the invasion of Julius Caesar to the death of Henry VIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 15 February 1829:
'I wrought [i.e. worked at writing] to day but not much -- rather dawdled and took to rea... | Walter Scott | Robert Chambers | Picture of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 20 February 1829:
'I glanced over some romances metrical publishd by Hartshorne several of which have not s... | Walter Scott | The Revd. C. H. Hartshorne | Ancient Metrical Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 28 February 1829:
'Read part of a curious work calld Memoirs of Vidocque, a fellow who was at the head of... | Walter Scott | | Memoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete jusqu'en 1827 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now hating to deal with ladies when they are in an unreasonable humour I have got the goodhumoured Man of Feeling to ... | Walter Scott | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Colonel R. told me that the European government had discoverd an ingenious mode of diminishing the number of burnings... | Walter Scott | T.R. Malthus | Principle of Population | |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 1 March 1829:
'I labourd heard [i.e. 'hard'?] the whole day and between hands refreshd myself with Vidocque... | Walter Scott | Vidocque | Memoires de Vidocque, Chef de la Police de Surete jusqu'en 1827 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 12 March 1829:
'I read Reginald Heber's journal after dinner. I spent some merry days with him at Oxford... | Walter Scott | Reginald Heber | Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 5 April 1829:
'Read prayers to what remains of our [house] party, being Anne [daughter], my niece Anne, the... | Walter Scott | | Prayers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 9 April 1829:
'I got a book from the Duke de Leviz, the same gentleman with whom I had an awkward meeting... | Walter Scott | Duke de Leviz | The Carbonaro, A Piedmontese Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 26 April 1829:
'Looking for something I fell in with the Little drama long amissing calld the Doom of Devor... | Walter Scott | Walter Scott | The Doom of Devorgoil | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 10 June 1829:
'I have been reading over the Five Days of St. Albans [sic], very much [quotes Lucretius, ... | Walter Scott | William Mudford | The Five Nights of St Albans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 12 June 1829:
'After dinner I wrote to Walter, Charles, Lockhart and John Murray and took a screed of my no... | Walter Scott | William Mudford | The Five Nights of St Albans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 15 June 1829:
'I read Genl. Miller's account of the South American War. I liked it the better that Basil Ha... | Walter Scott | General Miller | Memoirs of General Miller, in the Service of the Republic of Peru | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 19 July 1829:
'I read the Spae-wife of Galt. There is something good in it and the language is occasionally... | Walter Scott | John Galt | The Spaewife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 3 July 1830:
'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every... | Walter Scott | John Bunyan | John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, With Life of the Author | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 3 July 1830:
'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every... | Walter Scott | William Hone | Every-Day Book and Table Book: or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, etc. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 11 July 1830:
'I have begun Lawrie Todd which ought considering the author's indisputed talents to have bee... | Walter Scott | John Galt | Lawrie Todd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 26 December 1830:
'I shut myself up in Mr. [Henry] Scott's room. He has lately become purchaser of his Gran... | Walter Scott | | Civil war tracts | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 27 February 1831:
'Being Saturday no Mr. Laidlaw [amanuensis] came yesterday evening nor to-day being Sunda... | Walter Scott | | 'German novels' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 4 April 1831:
'Mr. Liddell and Hay Mackenzie left us this morning. Liddell shewd me yesterday a very good o... | Walter Scott | Liddell | The Savoyard | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 13 April 1831:
'My nap [same afternoon] was a very short one and was agreeably replaced by Basil Hall's ... | Walter Scott | Captain Basil Hall | Fragments of Voyages and Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Hoffman] had made some translations from the German which he does extremely [well], for give him ideas and he nev... | Walter Scott | E.T.A. Hoffman | The Devil's Elixirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 26 October 1831:
'Here we are [at Portsmouth] still fixd by the inexorable wind [...] I engaged in a new... | Walter Scott | Smith | New Forest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 2 July 1812, with enclosed letter of appreciation to Lord Byron:
'I trouble you with a... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 6 January 1814:
'I have read Lord Byron's "Bride of Abydos" with great delight, and on... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, regarding Byron's Cain:
'I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight ... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cain, a Mystery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to
send the early sheets to... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to
send the early sheets to... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | A rare thing this literature or love of fame or notoriety which accompanies it. Here is Mr H.M. [Henry Mackenzie] on ... | Walter Scott | Henry Mackenzie | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Received a letter from Sir W. Knighton mentioning that the King acquiesced in my proposal that Constable's Miscellany ... | Walter Scott | Archibald Constable | Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, the Sciences, & the Arts | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to William Blackwood, following a period of illness:
'I am greatly better, but not able to write. The ... | Walter Scott | Isaac D'Israeli | Curiosities of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818:
'I laid Kirkton aside when half finished, from a desire to get the orig... | Walter Scott | Patrick Walker | 'Lives of Cameron [etc]' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818:
'I laid Kirkton aside when half finished, from a desire to get the orig... | Walter Scott | Patrick Walker | 'Lives of Cameron [etc]' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Hajji Baba" was more read than any other of [James Morier's] works. Sir Walter Scott was especially pleased with it,... | Walter Scott | James Morier | Hajji Baba | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 29 September 1829:
'Sir Walter [Scott] has just read the first 120 pages of Mo... | Walter Scott | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox (Footnote: William Knox), a young poet of considerab... | Walter Scott | William Knox | Lonely Hearth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Talking of Vixisse it may not be impertinent to notice that Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a we... | Walter Scott | Michael Bruce | Elegy - Written in Spring | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well. In his own line of Society he was said to exhibit ... | Walter Scott | Ben Jonson | Everyman in his Humour | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson.' | Walter Scott | Harriet Wilson | Memoirs | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | On literary life of Amelia Opie, 1804-25:
'It must have been something [...] to breakfast with Wordsworth and Sir W... | Walter Scott | Amelia Opie | Father and Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | Simple Susan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | [?The] Purple Jar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even... | Walter Scott | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Sophia Scott to Miss Millar (former governess), 5 July 1819:
'I would advise you to read a new book, whi... | Walter Scott | J. G. Lockhart | Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Under [Anne Rutherford Scott, his mother's] strong encouragement Scott, at the age of seven, read aloud Shakespeare's... | Walter Scott | William Shakespeare | plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Under [Anne Rutherford Scott, his mother's] strong encouragement Scott, at the age of seven, read aloud Shakespeare's... | Walter Scott | | The Arabian Nights' Entertainment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The storm around might roar and rustle
We didna mind the storm a whistle'.
| Walter Scott | Robert Burns | Tam o' Shanter | Unknown |