| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | "As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea... | Gerald Massey | Tom Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ... | Charles Manby Smith | Tom Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William McCarty, convicted for burglary, sentenced to seven years' transportation: 'As regards my religious character,... | William McCarty | Tom Paine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 18 Jul 1844:
'Found that a prisoner committed yesterday was an avowed i... | H.C. | Tom Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave ... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | [diary notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | I have been Drowned | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | Man Below, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Tom, an Oxford contemporary] Following an elite fashion among moneyed aesthetes, he published, privately, a slim vol... | Ralph Glasser | Tom | Eyes of Adonis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during t... | Emily Tennyson | Tom Hughes | Alfred the Great | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that ... | Robert Southey | Tom Paine | The Rights of Man. Part the Second | |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, December 1795, 'I read the two languages [Spanish and Portuguese] with fa... | Robert Southey | Tomás de Iriarte | Fábulas Literarias | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is uni... | William Soutar | Tom Scott | On my 21st Birthday | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two year... | William Soutar | Tom Scott | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |