| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byr... | Hilaire Belloc | Hilaire Belloc | 'The Dons', 'The Poor of London' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell' | Mary Groom | Thomas Campbell | Hohenlinden | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell' | Mary Groom | Thomas Campbell | The dirge of wallace | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'death scene in gertrude of wyoming/ campbell'; there is also a footnote that gives the context of the scene in the tale. | Mary Groom | Thomas Campbell | Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Last Man by T. Campbell esq' [transcribes text] 'All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom...' Signed 'Fanny' | Mary Dugdale | Thomas Campbell | The Last Man | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which ... | William Wordsworth | John Bell | Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a mo... | William Wordsworth | Andrew Bell | Experiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madras, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Boo... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Campbell | Gertrude of Wyoming (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied an... | Sara Hutchinson | Thomas Campbell | Exile of Erin, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expres... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 February, 1802: 'In the morning a Box of clothes with Books came from ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one... | Anne Lister | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'. | Benjamin Newton | Archibald Campbell | A Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Hilaire Belloc | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | John Campbell | The Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Neil Bell | Handsome Langleys, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly ... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Campbell | Letters from Algiers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Thomas Campbell | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay... | Thomas Campbell | Thomas Campbell | First discourse upon Poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own dau... | Thomas Campbell | Thomas Campbell | discourse on English poetry and poets | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Donald Campbell's "Journey Over Land to India" [from the Library]. We had a very high character given of it &... | Joseph Hunter | Donald Campbell | A Journey Over Land to India | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I finished D. Campbell's "Journey over land to India". It is divided into three parts ... the story of Mr [Alli?] who... | Joseph Hunter | Donald Campbell | A Journey Over Land to India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines written to the Memory of Sir G Campbell' 'To Him whose loyal, brave, and gentle heart/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Campbell | Lines Inscribed on the Monument Lately... Erected | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Battle of Hohenlinden' 'On Linden when the Sun was low/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Campbell | 'Hohenlinden' OR [The Pleasures of Hope] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Fragment' 'And say when summoned from the world and thee/...' ['The Pleasures of Hope', part one, ll. 239-248. Some... | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines by Mrs Siddons Say what's the brightest wreath of fame, ... >From Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons Dec 1834' | Bowly group | Thomas Campbell | Life of Mrs Siddons | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | Thomas Campbell | Lord Ullin's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backwards | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 19th February,
Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immen... | Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | Path to Rome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | J.J. Bell | Thread o' Scarlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 22nd March,
Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).'
| Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | The Eye-Witness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 3rd August.
?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'. | Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | Pongo and the Bull | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 12th September
?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'. | Gerald Moore | James Branch Cabell | Jurgen | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...' | Thomas Green | George Campbell | The Philosophy of Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...' | Thomas Green | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charm... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Thomas Campbell | Pleasures of hope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Olwen Ward Campbell | Shelley and the Unromantics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 9th. Read Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland written as it is said by
one Campbell.
'S... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Campbell | A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False
Delicacy an English Comedy t... | Claire Clairmont | Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy | Gabrielle de Vergy, tragedie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long... | Samuel Smiles | Campbell | The Wizard's Warning | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Brief notes on the front flyleaf, and some marginal notes in English and French throughout. | Vernon Lee | Camille Bellaigue | Psychologie musicale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is not my interest to recommend it but in justice to what I owe to your amusement I must advise you to read the Le... | Horace Walpole | Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy | Le Siege de Calais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll | The Reign of Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Lord Campbell | Lives of the Lord Chancellors etc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant
form", but Virginia... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | Art | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933:
'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seem... | Virginia Woolf | Quentin Bell | letter | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Thomas Campbell | Life of Mrs Siddons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Clive Bell | Clive Bell | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Vanessa Bell | Vanessa Bell | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | [journalism] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sor... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Maggie Bell | [MS. novel] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Currer Bell [pseud.] | Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905:
'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 thin... | Leonard Woolf | Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al | Euphrosne | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | George Anne Bellamy | Memoirs of George Anne Bellamy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dr John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said, "Campbell is a man... | Samuel Johnson | John Campbell | Hermippus Redivivus: Or, the Sage's Triumph Over Old Age and the Grave. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Thomas Campbell, who dined with Johnson on 3 April 1775] has since published "A Philosophical Survey of the South... | James Boswell | Thomas Campbell | Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient ... | Samuel Johnson | John Campbell | Political Survey of Great Britain, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote l... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne | Guido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.' | Vera Brittain | W.N.P. Barbellion | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'. | John Betjeman | Thomas Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "My Greatest Adventure" by Malcolm Campbell. While treasure hunting on the Cocos, he mentions as typical of th... | Thomas Kitching | Malcolm Campbell | My Greatest Adventure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Web... | prisoners of war | Adrian Bell | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbour... | Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke | Thomas Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 23 January 1829:
'Mr. Bell sends me a spec[i]ment [sic] of a Historical novel but he goes not the way to... | Walter Scott | Bell | 'specimen of a historical novel' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [Charlotte Bronte to Sydney Dobell, 3 February 1854:]
'"Balder" arrived safely. I looked at him, bef... | Charlotte Bronte | Sydney Dobell | Balder | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Hilaire Belloc | Cautionary Tales for Children | Unknown |