| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesti... | Edward Fitzgerald | Horace Walpole | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James and Horace Smith | Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junctio... | John Ruskin | Horace Benedict de Saussure | Voyages dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' ... [The Mysterious Mother (1768)] was read aloud by Mr Smelt and Frances Burney in November 1786. Burney was horri... | Frances Burney and Leonard Smelt | Horace Walpole | The Mysterious Mother | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well ... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Horace Walpole | Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to... | Thomas Carlyle | Horace Benedict Saussure | Voyage dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much consci... | Thomas Carlyle | Horace Benedict Saussure | Voyages dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Ch... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Horace Walpole | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Brand' to Mary Berry, January 1798: 'Lady Ossory, to alleviate my confinement with a very bad cold, has treated me... | Mr Brand | Horace Walpole, Lord Orford | Letters to Lady Ossory | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have held off reading Walpole's Correspondences till now. I am in the former series to Mann. At first, I was agreea... | Harriet Martineau | Horace Walpole (ed. Richard Bentley) | Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a v... | Mary Berry | Horace | Works | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horac... | Pupils at Mr Perry's school | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Ontranto | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Within these few days I could not have a book from the library because Mr E. had lent the "Castle of Otranto" to Miss... | Joseph Hunter | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'. | Sydney Smith | Horace Twiss | Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it wo... | Sydney Smith | Horace Twiss | Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the "Castle of Otranto", which grievously disappointed my expectations...' | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...' | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | The Mysterious Mother | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measur... | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | Historic doubts on the life and reign of King Richard the third | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...' | Thomas Green | Horace Walpole | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published i... | Sydney Smith | Horace Walpole | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Horace Walpole | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above
line]. Bathe. Read C... | Claire Clairmont | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 10 December 1844:
'I am glad I have so much interesting matter to look forward t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Horace Twiss | The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over aga... | | Horace Walpole | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Horace Walpole | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Horace in London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Rejected Addresses | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Gaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941:
'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o... | Leonard Woolf | Horace | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 N... | Edward Morgan Forster | Horace Walpole | Letter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My father said that he [...] received a good but not a regular classical education. At any rate he became an accurate... | Alfred Tennyson | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | MS notes and dates of reading include: "Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868"; p.40: "Wey... | George Otto Trevelyan | Horace | Works; ed by Macleane | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824:
'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you hav... | Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool | Horace Walpole | letters to Lord Hertford | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 11 December 1793: 'Let me turn to more chearful subjects. your verses were p... | Robert Southey | Horace Walpole Bedford | MS verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 7 June 1794: 'In return for your ode to Indolence I know nothing better tha... | Robert Southey | Horace Walpole Bedford | Ode to Indolence | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Sir Henry Ellis to John Wilson Croker, from the British Museum, 29 October 1829:
'I understand from Mr. Murray that... | Samuel Johnson | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Poetry and shoemaking were part of the daily round [for the young Anne Isabella Milbanke]; a grander ambition was tak... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before ... | John Ruskin | Horace-Bénédicte de Saussure | Voyage dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 August 1818:
'Yesterday evening Granville [hu... | Duke of Devonshire and Lord and Lady Granville (his brother-in-law and sister) | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Thursday, 1 March 1827:
'By the bye it is the anniversary of Bosworth field. In former days Richd. IIId. was always... | Walter Scott | Horace Walpole | Historic Doubts on Richard III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828:
'I return, having read through, the first volume of "Horace Walpole'... | John Wilson Croker | Horace Walpole | 'Letters to Mr Mason' vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880]
'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acqui... | Charles and Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Horace Walpole | Walpoliana | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Alfred Rawlings | Horace | The Art of Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:]
'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord He... | Catherine Talbot | Horace Walpole | Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:]
'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walp... | Elizabeth Carter | Horace Walpole | ?Royal and Noble Authors | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:]
'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walp... | Elizabeth Carter | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |