| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how she and her brother William received a letter from him: "Yesterd... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas De Quincey | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how John Wordsworth received a letter from him:
"When your Frien... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas De Quincey | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberf... | William Wordsworth | Thomas De Quincey | Close Comments on a Straggling Speech | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c. 14 April 1818]: 'The notes upon [Henry] Brougham's Speech, I have not seen... | William Wordsworth, Viscount Lowther | Thomas De Quincey | Close Comments on a Straggling Speech | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an... | John Masefield | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read during 1944]:
'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers i... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas De Quincey | 'Lake Reminiscences, from 1807-1830. By the English Opium-Eater', in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas De Quincey | [article] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Thomas De Quincey | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 7th September
?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)'
| Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 11th November.
?Opium-eater? again.'
| Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hol... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas de Quincey | Impassioned Prose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I sho... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas De Quincey | Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, c.13 March 1845: 'Do you read Blackwood? & in that case, have you had deep delig... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas De Quincey | 'Suspiria De Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Thomas de Quincey | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Thomas de Quincey | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surpr... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas de Quincey | Review of 'State of German Literature' | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Katherine Evans | Thomas de Quincey | Joan of Arc | Print: Book |