| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Es... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] | Adam Sedgwick | Thomas Malthus | Essay on Population | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers'... | Mary Berry | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Malthus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | An Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the importation of foreign corn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so data... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Malthus | Essay on Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Malthus' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | 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 | |