| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Dirge- Burn' 'The sweeping blast, the sky o'ercast [transcribes alll of poem from l.10.]' | B.A.T. Herbert | Robert Burns | Winter: A Dirge | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Despondency---Burn' 'Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care...' [transcribes poem] | B.A.T. Herbert | Robert Burns | Despondency | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Prayer by Burn' 'O thou great Being! What thou art, /...' [transcribes poem] | B.A.T. Herbert | Robert Burns | Prayer Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Burn. May 1812' 'The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning /...' [transcribes poem] | B.A.T. Herbert | Robert Burns | The Chevalier's Lament | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"I well remember the acute sorrow with which, by my own fire-side, I first perused Dr. Currie's Narrative, and some o... | William Wordsworth | Robert Burns | letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Robert Burns | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Burns | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Robert Burns | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | Robert Burns | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li... | William Gallacher | Robert Burns | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history... | Harry Lauder | Robert Burns | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led... | Robert Smillie | Robert Burns | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Robert Burns | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley... | Benjamin Brierley | Robert Burns | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and ... | Benjamin Brierley | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Samuel Bamford never forgot the sensation of reading a volume of [...] [Robert Burns's] life and writings whilst wor... | Samuel Bamford | Robert Burns | volume containing life and writings of Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the trouble... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] [Burns] | [Lady Mary Anne] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with c... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Robert Burns | To ruin | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Robert Burns | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from
'Tam O'Shanter,' and "... | Claire Clairmont | Robert Burns | 'Tam O' Shanter' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from
'Tam O'Shanter,' and "... | Claire Clairmont | Robert Burns | 'Lament for James Earl of Glencairn' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Burns | unknown | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a ch... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Robert Burns | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Pattie Stansfield | Robert Burns | 'To a Mouse' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Pattie Stansfield | Robert Burns | 'To a Mountain Daisy' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Helen Rawlings | Robert Burns | 'Cotter's Saturday Night' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Robert Burns | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The storm around might roar and rustle
We didna mind the storm a whistle'.
| Walter Scott | Robert Burns | Tam o' Shanter | Unknown |