| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, receiv... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 13 February 1822 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad. I slept till nine - I opened "Mary Stew... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Mary Stewart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands. I woul... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St Helena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Henry Hart Milman | Samor, the Lord of the Bright City | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so ma... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-Helena | Print: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adh... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon) | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adh... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Charles Rollin | The Ancient History | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Maria Stuart | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Vittorio Alfieri | Unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Publius Cornelius Tacitus | Unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Charles Rollin | The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You did not mean me to return your story? I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you! I ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Cruthers and Johnson | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but him... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | William Tell | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio) | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Tu... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Gozzi Carlo | Turnadot, Princess of China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Tu... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las Cases | Memorial de Sainte Helene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Stella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Clavigo, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Giovanne Boccaccio | Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I a... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Egmont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different par... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Giovanne Boccaccio | Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Discourses on Livy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Germaine de Stael | Life of Necker [Jacques?] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Fiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical Tragedy | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell me - did you write the critic [critique] on his [Edward Irving's] book, which appeared in the Sunday Times - I h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Anon | Review of Edward Irving's The Orations and the Arguments For Judgment To Come | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum... | Jane Baillie Welsh | William Robertson | Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum... | Jane Baillie Welsh | unknown | History of America | 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 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown (trad) | Jack The Giant Killer | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mary Martha Sherwood | The Wishing Cap | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown | Blue Beard | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undou... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Leigh Hunt | The Wishing Cap | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Various | Autographs | Manuscript: Autographs |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-temp... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 20th January 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very curious to see Mrs Montagu's catalogue of duties: so take care that you do not light your pipe with the let... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 13 June | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | I had two sheets from Mrs Montagu the other day trying to prove to me that I knew nothing at all of my own heart (Merc... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 3 July | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dearest
I thought to write to you from this place with joy; I write with shame and tears. The enclosed letter,... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 20 July | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My own, best, dearest Love
I do believe I should have gone out of my senses, if your letter had been a day longer of... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 29th July 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Grace Baillie Welsh | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |