√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro... | Wully Carruthers | Alan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | ['Cyrus'] OR Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to... | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Allan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Allan Ramsay | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive re... | Anna Larpent | Ramsay | a dialogue on taste | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu... | Thomas Carter | David Ramsay | History of the American Revolution, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of ... | James Dawson Burn | Chevalier Ramsay | Life of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Ramsay | Revolution of South Carolina [The history of the] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written... | James Boswell | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 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 | Allan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Allan Ramsay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got... | James Hogg | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott quotes four lines from 'My Jo Janet' in Allan Ramsay's 'Tea-Table Miscellany'. | Walter Scott | Allan Ramsay | Tea-Table Miscellany: My Jo Janet | Unknown |