| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Rights of Woman - begin Chesterfields Letters to his son' | Mary Godwin | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer' | Mary Godwin | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield' | Mary Godwin | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lord Chesterfield - part of the Lay sermon' | Mary Shelley | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters written by the . . . Earl of Chesterfield to his Son Philip Stanhope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that... | Mr Sharpe | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I remember when the [italics] Literary Property [end italics] of those letters [Lord Chesterfield's to his son] was c... | Henry Dundas | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Chesterfield's letters being mentioned, Johnson said, "It was not to be wondered at that they had so great a sal... | Samuel Johnson | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", I think, might be made a very pretty book. Take out the imm... | Samuel Johnson | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?' | James Boswell | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Memoirs and Last Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Howard R. Smith | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | [letter to his son] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:]
'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete s... | Elizabeth Carter | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to His Son | Print: Book |