√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 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 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Joseph Addison | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Richard Steele | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Alexander Pope | 'Ode on Solitude' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | George Payne | Elements of Mental and Moral Science | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Thomas Brown | Moral Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Richard Whateley | Logic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. | Mary Smith | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. | Mary Smith | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. | Mary Smith | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel:
William Smith: "I saw [the prisoner] s... | William Smith | | Temple of Reason | |
| 1900-1945 | '[Through the Women's Co-operative Guild, Deborah Smith] began reading poetry and, at age fifty one, discovered her ow... | Deborah Smith | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 'Break, break, break' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Sa... | George Murray Smith | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abro... | | Mark Twain | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abro... | | [unknown] | [travel books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist min... | Mary Smith | Lyell | Vestiges of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who s... | Margaret Smith | | Votes for Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ... | George Smith | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ... | George Smith | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ... | George Smith | [unknown] | [biblical criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ... | George Smith | [unknown] | [treatises on algebra and geometry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rug... | Pauline Smith | Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book, proofs |
| 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 | 'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible a... | | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible a... | | [unknown] | [prayer book] | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actua... | Mary Smith | Henry Kirke White | The Remains of Henry Kirke White | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794
'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a... | Elizabeth Smith | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixotte | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794
'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a... | Elizabeth Smith | Garcilaso de la Vega | History of the Incas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794
'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyj... | Elizabeth Smith | Feyjoo | Theatro critico universale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794
'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyj... | Elizabeth Smith | Juan de Mariana | History of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798
'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798
'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d... | Elizabeth Smith | John Robinson | Illuminati | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'I must tell you that I cannot help being quite reconciled to Cicero... If you... | Elizabeth Smith | Marcus Tullius Cicero | Tuscular Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'I have just finished Clarendon's "History of the rebellion", which Miss Bowdl... | Elizabeth Smith | Edward Hyde Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and civil wars in England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'We have read Mr Gisborne's book aloud ["On the duties of Man"] and all the pa... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas Gisbourne | An enquiry into the duties of men in the higher and middle classes of society in Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ... | Elizabeth Smith | Conyeds Middleton | History of the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ... | Elizabeth Smith | Tobias George Smolett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | Ossian | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | Homer | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'Can you find anything equal to his [Ossian's] descriptions of nature; his address to th... | Elizabeth Smith | Ossian | hymns | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | [various English poets] | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas Secker | Lectures on Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793
'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since... | Elizabeth Smith | [unknown] | Den golden spiegel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793
'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since... | Elizabeth Smith | Wiessen | Lyrische Gedischte | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Kliest | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Hallen | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Zimmerman | Einsamkert | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Hunt | Essay on the happiness of the life to come | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In the BL copy: Written in margin of "Paper: Its Applications and its Novelties" p16 'In 1853 the sum of #4000 was at ... | | George Dodd | Curiosities of Industry | 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 |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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... | 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 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 | 'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make ... | J.P. Smith | Mary Russell Mitford | Blanch of Castile and other poems | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Samuel Johnson | Thoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Jonathan Swift | [poems to Stella] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | James Beattie | 'Minstrel, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Giovanni Battista Guarini | Il Pastor Fido | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Oliver Goldsmith | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | Oliver Goldsmith | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Frederic Harrison | Meaning of History, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Edward Smith: 'On the 17th of June I was at the Feathers public-house, in Oxfor... | Edward Smith | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Dennis Power: 'Q. Do you ever read the "Weekly Dispatch" newspaper? A. I do no... | Edward Smith | [n/a] | Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Life of Edward Fitzgerald] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'May and Death' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'Prospice' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr W. H. Smith then read a paper on the life of John Ruskin'. | William Henry Smith | William Henry Smith | [Paper on Ruskin] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Burns as song writer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Burns | | 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... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [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... | Howard R Smith | 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 ... | Howard Smith | Leo Tolstoy | Resurrection, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a biography of Keats] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Howard R. Smith | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Howard R. Smith then read a paper on the history of the House of Lords which was followed by considerablee discussion... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R Smith | [paper on the House of Lords] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | Howard R Smith | Howard R Smith | [paper on life of RL Stevenson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | William Smith | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | William Smith | William Smith | [paper on Shelley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Howard Smith | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | George Borrow | Bible in Spain, The | 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... | Howard Smith | George Borrow | Romany Rye, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | [either an English ballad or text about ballads] | 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,... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Paper on William Pett Ridge] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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,... | Howard Smith | William Pett Ridge | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Occultism was introduced in a general & comprehensive way [by] C. Stansfield. H.R. Smith read a paper ... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [paper on Subliminal Consciousness] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | Howard Smith | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Elizabeth Smith | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Howard R. Smith | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | 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... | Howard R. Smith | Henri Bergson | | 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... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on Henri Bergson] | 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [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... | Howard Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R... | Howard Smith | Anatole France | | 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... | Howard Smith | Anatole France | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [Paper on A.R. Wallace's psychical writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Alfred Russel Wallace | [psychical writings] | 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... | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | 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... | Howard Smith | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Howard Smith | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Mark Twain | | Print: 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Howard R. Smith | George Gissing | New Grub Street | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on child study] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on 'Mankind in the Making' by Wells] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Herbert George Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Herbert George Wells | | Print: 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Christmas at Sea' | Print: 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Tropic Rain' | Print: 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Vagabond' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the spirit world] | 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.
... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the mind and its training] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Algernon Blackwood | Garden of Survival, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | William Henry Smith | Rudyard Kipling | 'How the Camel got his Hump' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | 'Etaples & the Air raids' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Muriel Bowman-Smith | Robert Browning | 'In a gondola' | Print: 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... | Howard R. Smith | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 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... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on Bunyan's life] | 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 remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Howard R. Smith | Maurice Hewlett | Forest Lovers, 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 ... | Howard R. Smith | Maurice Hewlett | Forest Lovers, The | 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... | Muriel Bowman-Smith | Thomas de Quincey | | 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... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [essay on Pepys] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Howard R. Smith | | Bonnie House of Airlie, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on Boswell] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Howard R. Smith | L.P. Jacks | 'Farmer Jeremy and his Ways' | Print: Book |
| | 'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed' | Howard R. Smith | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of last meeting were read & agreed' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi... | Howard R. Smith | Henry Marriage Wallis | [parody of 'We are Seven'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Howard R. Smith | John Masefield | 'Reynard the Fox' | 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... | Howard R. Smith | Arthur Quiller-Couch | Mayor of Troy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Howard R. Smith | George Sand | Consuelo | 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... | Howard R. Smith | Sabine Baring-Gould | Vicar of Morwenstow, 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Sabine Baring-Gould | | 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.... | Howard R. Smith | Anthony Trollope | Prime Minister, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary reported that he had found "Ebony & Ivory" to be an unsuitable book to go round the club & had procured... | Howard R. Smith | Llewelyn Powys | Ebony and Ivory | 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... | Howard R. Smith | Mark Twain | Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc | 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... | Howard R. Smith | Mark Twain | Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc | 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... | Howard R. Smith | William de Morgan | Somehow Good | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Financial Statement was read & approved' | Howard R. Smith | Edith Smith | [financial statement of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Howard R. Smith | 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. ... | Howard R. Smith | Hugh Walpole | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Howard R. Smith | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith re... | Howard R. Smith | Henry Marriage Wallis | "The Price of his Soul" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 ... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on "Rates and taxes"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Howard R. Smith | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | [letter to his son] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The treasurers report showing a balance in hand of 19/- was read' | Edith Smith | Edith Smith | [treasurer's report of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After supper the Secretary read the Minutes of the last Meeting' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The financial statement was read showing a balance in hand of 11/ 3 1/2' | Edith Smith | Edith Smith | [financial statement of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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... | Muriel Bowman Smith | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal... | Howard R. Smith | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A Meeting held at Mark Ash Tuesday May 8th 1928
C. J. Evans in the Chair
1 Minutes of last approved
| Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 23 March 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Me... | Edith B. Smith | Nicholas Udall | Ralph Roister Doister | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting held 8 May 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes/report of the picnic meeting held 12 Jun 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved<... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 13 November 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 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<... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes/report of the meeting held 13 November 1928] | Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook |
| 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<... | Howard Smith | 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<... | Muriel Bowman-Smith | 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<... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting held 4 Dec 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 Jan 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [A brief sketch of Victor Hugo's life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair
Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved ... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 26 Feb 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 19 Mar 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales (General Prologue) | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Prioress's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Wife of Bath's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Hilaire Belloc | Cautionary Tales for Children | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 3 May 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 6 June 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Howard Smith | Muriel Bowman-Smith | [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 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... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 25 Sep 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Howard Smith | 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
... | Edith B. Smith | 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... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 June 1930 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Howard Smith | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Howard Smith | Francis Thompson | ?"At Lords" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | Janet Rawlings | [Moroccan memories] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | John J. Cooper | Some Worthies of Reading | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Howard Smith | Edith Goadby | Glastonbury | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [An account of the life of William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [A paper on the early history of London] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Howard Smith | | Trials for Witchcraft | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Howard Smith | William Fryer Harvey | The Tortoise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Howard Smith | Roger Martin du Gard | Les Thibault | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Howard Smith | | [a story about an illicit still] | Unknown |