| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 |
| 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 |