√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find t... | Samuel Richardson | Pliny the Elder | [observations and transcriptions from work] | Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore |
| 1500-1599 | 'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer... | Gabriel Harvey | Pliny | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,'... | Mr Rutherford | Pliny the Younger | account of eruption of Vesuvius over Pompeii | Print: Book |