| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a cop... | Neville Cardus | Samuel Butler | Note Books | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | In her edition of Mary Gladstone's "Diaries and Letters", Lucy Masterman would suggest that it was under her father's ... | Mary Gladstone | Joseph Butler | The Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945 | Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', whic... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Butler | The Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...' | William Richard Grahame | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Butler | The Anatomy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Butler | Vindication of "The Book of the Roman Catholic Church" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Butler | The Book of the Roman Catholic Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Whewell to Rose, dated 24/6/1818, discusses Butler's argument. | William Whewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Natural and Revealed eligion to the Con | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Samuel Butler | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", w... | Samuel Pepys | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[By c. late 1830s] My mind had [...] become much quietened and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", whi... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to comp... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | 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 | Butler | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837:
'Yes! the extracts from Mrs Butler's play, in the Athenaeum,... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Anne Butler | The Star of Seville | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837:
'I have read the Star of Seville [...] It [italics]is[end ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Anne Butler | The Star of Seville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | The Way of all Flesh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Marianne Francis | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance. I solace myself with the "note books" of Samuel Butler.' | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Jonathan Swift | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Butler | Erewhon; or, Over the Range | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Samuel Butler | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they w... | James Lackington | Bishop Butler | Divine Analogy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evi... | James Lackington | Joseph Butler | The Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | Butler | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] "Hudibras" affords a strong proof how much hold political principles had then upon the minds of men. T... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am now reading Butler's Analogy' | Elizabeth Gurney | Joseph Butler | Analogy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Who did the Athenaeum I know not, but it is very kind.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | A J Butler | Review in Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | A.J. Butler | Companion to Dante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Dacre to John Murray, 27 May 1835:
'Thousands of thanks, dear Mr. Murray, for allowing us to read those sheets... | Lord and Lady Dacre | Fanny Kemble Butler | Journal [of residence in America] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835:
'I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble's book, but have seen ... | Sir Francis B. Head | Fanny Kemble Butler | Journal [of residence in America] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Callcott to John Murray (c.1835):
'Let me thank you for Mrs. Butler: very clever, very romantic, some excellen... | Lady Callcott | Fanny Kemble Butler | Journal [of her residence in America] | Print: Book |