√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 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 | 'These drawings were placed on the hands of Mr C J Smith, with whom I had become acquainted through an advertisement.' | John Cole | J Smith | advertisement | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu... | Thomas Carter | John Smith | Travels in Canada and the United States | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Smith | Select Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Jane Austen | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Mrs Digweed | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h... | Papillon Family | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h... | Eleanor Papillon | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'earley up in the morning to read the "Seamans grammar and dictionary" I lately have got, which doth please me exceedi... | Samuel Pepys | John Smith | The sea-man's grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 17 October 1826:
'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as ... | Walter Scott | John Smith | Brambletye House | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Brontë, as Currer Bell, to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 15 June 1848:]
'I duly received Mirabeau ... | Charlotte Brontë | John Stores Smith | Mirabeau: A Life History | Print: Book |