| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was eighteen when I first read those words. My train was running into Rye station and I was knocked out the ashes o... | Ford Madox Ford | Rudyard Kipling | Only a subaltern | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That same night, in a perfect, clear, still moonlight, I lay in a tent, obsessed by insomnia... And I will interpolat... | Ford Madox Ford | Stephen Crane | The Red badge of courage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Did you ever read Turgenev's "Letters of a Sportsman?" If you never did, do so at once: they are the finest things th... | Ford Madox Ford | Ivan Turgenev | A Sportsman's Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In years away from this when I am quite forgotten, maybe you will turn up some of these old letters & feel a little l... | Ford Madox Ford | Pierre de Ronsard | Sonnets pour Helene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Ca... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just got my French article in print: it reads quite nicely'. | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown article in French] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an ... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | [newspaper classifieds] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. Whe... | Ford Madox Ford | Herbert George Wells | Outline of History, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been interrupted [in finishing a play] by getting back the m.s. of [underlined] Mr. Bosphorus [end underlining... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Mr Bosphorus and the Muses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am rather dithered after writing nearly all night & [underlined] then [end underlining] reading the [underlined] Ma... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Marsden Case, The: A Romance | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I see there is a little reference to him [Drake] in a rude interview with me in the [underlined] World [end underlini... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | World, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...... | Ford Madox Ford | Violet Hunt | Flurried Years, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "The Old Houses of Flanders" & "Clair de Lune", first half, & "Thank Goodness the Moving is Over" last night a... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | [several poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'What really [underlined] has [end underlining] harmed me here [as opposed to Violet Hunt's memoirs]- oddly enough -is... | Ford Madox Ford | Jessie Conrad | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Euro... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in the New York Times] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs van Doren told me yesterday that Macfee - one of her reviewers- had received a letter full of the most incredible... | Ford Madox Ford | Jessie Conrad | Joseph Conrad as I Knew Him | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am a little tired of writing eulogies. I wrote one of Asch the other day, and I am writing one of Lucy Madox Robert... | Ford Madox Ford | Elizabeth Madox Roberts | Time of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was lately forced into the rather close examination of this book, for I had to translate it into French, that forci... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Good Soldier, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just bought the New York Times - wh. feels relatively home-like & read that the AMERICAN CHORUS GIRL IS BEAUTI... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | New York Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was out like a lark at nine this morning to breakfast with Isabel Paterson - who did not expect me till one, Sunday... | Ford Madox Ford | Isabel Paterson | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am not half so pleased [as with "The Last Post"] with "New York is not America", the American proofs of which I am ... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | New York is Not America | Print: page proofs for American edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Print: page proofs for American edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do... | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Print: page proofs for English edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier's Weekly'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying ove... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [research for the book that became 'A little Less than Gods'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[At his parents' house] We saw photos of Ezra as a baby and his first poems in an Idaho paper and no end of things th... | Ford Madox Ford | Ezra Pound | [early poems] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many ... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [article presumably praising Stella Bowen's exhibition of paintings] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '[After lunch] I shall come back and begin an article I am to write about the technique of the novel for Canby - sugge... | Ford Madox Ford | Edward Morgan Forster | Aspects of the Novel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne ... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want' | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [research for 'A Little Less than Gods'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the ... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in ... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | New York Times Book Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in ... | Ford Madox Ford | William McFee | New York Herald Tribune Books | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in ... | Ford Madox Ford | Harry Hensen | [untraced review of Ford's 'The Last Post'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'And you know she [Ford's daughter, Julie] acted about her story just like a grown-up I know: No, it was not good enou... | Ford Madox Ford | Esther Julia Ford | [a short story] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocea... | Ford Madox Ford | [n/a] | [articles on Pacific politics] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing ... | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |