√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | ?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The... | Amelia Opie | William Hayley | | Manuscript: Plays |
| 1700-1799 | ?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.? | Amelia Opie | William Hayley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | An Essay on Old Maids. 3 vols. Has my approbation, although, or because, I am an Old Maid. What is the public opinion... | Ellen Weeton | W Hayley | A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Hayley | The Life of Milton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Hayley | [Life and letters of William Cowper] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Hayley | Life and letters of William Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs,... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Hayley | Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq ... Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | William Hayley | An Essay on Epic Poetry | Print: Book |