| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "f... | John Johnson | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ... | D.R. Davies | Adam Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s... | Thomas Burt | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...' | Thomas Green | Adam Smith | Essays on philosophical subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's
Treatise concerning t... | Claire Clairmont | Adam Smith | Treatise on the Imitative Arts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I know I shall never be wise enough in a tete a tete with a girl who does not read poetry & novels but Adam Smith, Ni... | Miss Thompson | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no ... | Robert Southey | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 3-4 November 1793: 'I am reading Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations.' | Robert Southey | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading S... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 8. Read once again the "... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, volume 2 chapter 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was' | John Ruskin | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |