| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Charles de Brosses | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Charles de Brosses | Lettres familieres ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 1740 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways.... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Ross | The Correspondence of Charles, 1st Marquis of Cornwallis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making... | Joseph Banks | Charles De Brosses | Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contr?es d?couvertes jusqu'? ce jour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) ... | Joseph Banks | Charles de Brosse | Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'None of the periodicals shown there are alive today. There was "Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday", my favourite comic. When... | Joseph Stamper | Charles Henry Ross | Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Ross,
Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency ... | Charles Dickens | Charles Ross | The Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowledge | Unknown |