| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'W[ordsworth] was introduced to The Minstrel by his teacher, Thomas Bowman ... during his schooldays at Hawkshead. De... | William Wordsworth | James Beattie | Minstrel, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 af... | John Drummond Erskine | James Beattie | Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [On hot summer afternoons Carter took shelter in the shaded parts of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens] 'In the latter I... | Thomas Carter | James Beattie | The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | James Beattie | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | James Beattie | Essay on truth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Epitaph' 'Part of an inscription for amonument to be erected/by a gentleman to the memory of his lady' 'Farewell my b... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | James Beattie | Epitaph OR [Poems on Several Occasions] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in add... | Thomas Carlyle | James Beattie | The Minstrel | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over, by a cursory perusal, Beattie's "Essay on Truth"...' | Thomas Green | James Beattie | An essay on the nature and immutability of truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read over Beattie's "Elements of Moral Science"--a miserable work...' | Thomas Green | James Beattie | Elements of moral science | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Beattie | The minstrel; or , the progress of genius | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Beattie | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Beattie | The Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Beattie | The Minstrel | 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 | James Beattie | 'Minstrel, The' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Beattie's book is, I believe, every day more liked; at least, I like it more as I look more upon it.' | Samuel Johnson | James Beattie | Minstrel, The; or, The Progress of Genius | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Such was his sensibility, and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry, that, when he was reading Dr. Beattie's "H... | Samuel Johnson | James Beattie | Hermit, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Beattie, author of the celebrated book on Truth, was much the Subject of Conversation, the whole company concu... | Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith and others | James Beattie | Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading -... | Susan Thrale | James Beattie | Essays on Poetry and Music | Print: Book |