| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a reclu... | Thomas Hardy | Violet Hunt | White Rose of Withered Leaf | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Watson] sent a copy [of "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems"] to [Thomas] Hardy, who replied appreciatively ... | Thomas Hardy | William Watson | Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... [Thomas Hardy] did once chance a criticism of Lady Grove's description of her brush with an unhelpful shop assist... | Thomas Hardy | Lady Grove | The Social Fetich | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illust... | Thomas Hardy | Rider Haggard | Eric Brighteyes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[John] Galsworthy sent [Thomas] Hardy a presentation copy of "The Man of Property" [1906] and, Hardy told Florence He... | Thomas Hardy | John Galsworthy | The Man of Property | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bou... | Thomas Hardy | Stephen Phillips | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of ... | Thomas Hardy | Thomas Hardy | poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo... | Thomas Hardy | Charlotte Mew | "Sea Love" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which... | Thomas Hardy | Charlotte Mew | "Fin de Fete" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | `My dear Watson:
Who would have supposed that I should write to thank you for your considerateness in sending the Od... | Thomas Hardy | William Watson | Ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VII | Print: Unknown, Probably a pamphlet or book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1925: 'Now comes Mrs Hardy to say that Thomas reads, & hears the C[ommon]. R[eader]. read, with "great p... | Thomas Hardy | Virginia Woolf | The Common Reader | Print: Book |