| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar... | Margaret Oliphant | Collins | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ... | John Clare | William Collins Collins | 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "[in 29.10.1828 letter to Alexander Dyce] ... W[ordsworth] recalls that 'in 1788 the Ode was first printed from Dr Car... | William Wordsworth | William Collins | An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind... | Margaret Oliphant | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind... | Margaret Oliphant | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Collins | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Collins's "Peerage of England".' | Thomas Turner | Arthur Collins | The peerage of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the day read part of the 1st volume of "The Peerage of England".' | Thomas Turner | Arthur Collins | The peerage of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of "The Peerage of England".' | Thomas Turner | Arthur Collins | The peerage of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Norman Collins | Anna | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Pris... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Wilkie Collins | Household Words - "Perils of certain English Prisoners" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Collins | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circum... | John Stuart Mill | Collins | [account of the first settlement of New South Wales] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | [John] Collins | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Collins | Poetical Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime? | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my wi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Ode occasion'd by the death of Mr Thomson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on pape... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Address to simplicity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835:
'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]rea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anthony Collins | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835, regarding possible visit to him:
'Don't expect [...] to find... | Elizabeth Barrett | Collins | work 'upon necessity' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | William Collins | Ode to Evening | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29 August- 7 September 1796: 'Charles Collins wrote a Sonnet upon Hasting... | Robert Southey | Charles Collins | On Hastings Castle | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | The seventeen-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson, when he read the novel that year, wrote to his mother: “Isn’t the d... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | Print: Unknown |