| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of th... | Charles Manby Smith | William Cobbett | A French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the Le | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ... | Charles Manby Smith | Tom Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ... | Charles Manby Smith | Bishop Watson | Apology for the bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my moth... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | William Cobbett | [French Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [French pocket dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Telemaque | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French ... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | [newspaper advertisements] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...' | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Moniteur | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a... | Charles Manby Smith | Dr D of Prospect Villa | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.]
'Sometimes I played dices with m... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.]
'By the middle of March 1831, I ... | Charles Manby Smith | Dr D | [manuscript of his book] | Manuscript: manuscript of book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and le... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use..... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |