| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen... | Thomas Thompson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat toget... | Leslie Stephen | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she op... | Harriet Martineau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 5th March,
I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we have just been reading Elsie Venner & we were altogether [italics] very [end italics] American yesterday' | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughter 'Meta' or Margaret | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Oliver Wendell Holmes | [poem] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most n... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Guardian Angel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | John J. Cooper | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Latter Day Warnings' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Mary Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Poet at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Reginald Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Professor at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | K. Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Charles Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Chambered Nautilus, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Charles Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Deacon's Masterpiece, Or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay: A Logical Story | Print: Book |