| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle o... | William Wordsworth | John Wilson | [MS poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'In the preface to Thomas Wilson's "The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence" (1567... | Gabriel Harvey | Thomas Wilson | The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Walter Wilson | Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read and fin. City of the Plague' | Mary Shelley | John Wilson | City of the Plague, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the "Noctis Ambrosianae" which I purc... | John Buckley Castieau | John Wilson | Noctes Ambrosianae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, ... | Eleanor Anne Porden | John Wilson | The City of the Plague | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs,... | Elizabeth Barrett | Margaret Baron-Wilson | The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?3 March 1843:
'Mr Kenyon calls Christopher North a "glorious brute" -- ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Wilson (as Christopher North) | The Recreations of Christopher North (vol. 3) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 300 yards above Camp III we found the body of Maurice Wilson, who had atempted to climb Mount Everest alone the... | Expedition members | Maurice Wilson | [diary] | Manuscript: Codex, Diary |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]... | Charlotte Bury | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]... | Miss [-] | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in li... | James Hogg | John Wilson | City of the Plague, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to ... | James Hogg | John Wilson | [ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a ... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellan... | James Hogg | John Wilson | [various items in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am delighted more than I can tell you with Margt Lindsay. It is a charming work pure, elegant, and perfect; all sav... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Wrestliana', in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articl... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Hints for the Holidays. No. III' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is ini... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight y... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Unimore. A Dream of the Highlands' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'As I read the "New Yorker" article (getting more and more indignant) I thought, "This man, although he is saying some... | Vita Sackville-West | Edmund Wilson | Through the Embassy Window; Harold Nicolson | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the ... | James and Mary Lackington | Thomas Wilson | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five Britis... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | History of the British Expedition to Egypt | Print: Book |
| | Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the... | George Otto Trevelyan | Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | Private diary of travels, personal services, and public events ... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the appearance of Mr Wilson's "Isle of Palms", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scen... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Isle of Palms, and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 9 December 1825:
'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebr... | Walter Scott | Harriet Wilson | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 23 February 1828:
'I saw at the printing office [Ballantyne's] a part of a review on Leigh Hunt's Anecdot... | Walter Scott | Wilson | review of Leigh Hunt, Anecdotes of Byron | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Notes on memory from the fifth edition of Thomas Wilson's The... | Edward Pordage | Thomas Wilson | The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as are studious of Eloquence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson.' | Walter Scott | Harriet Wilson | Memoirs | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one doe... | Joseph Conrad | Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett) | Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with yo... | Joseph Conrad | E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant Wilson | The Mainland | Print: Book |