| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavo... | James Glass Bertram | Robert Chambers | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | Jessie Chambers | D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did ... | Janet Schaw | Sir William Chambers | A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Robert Chambers | Domestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845:
'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certai... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Chambers | Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir William Chambers, that great Architect, whose works shew a sublimity of genius, and who is esteemed by all who kn... | Samuel Johnson | William Chambers | Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils : to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through C... | William Soutar | Chambers | Twentieth Century Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An historical moment - completed my odyssey through Chambers's "Dictionary" - I began 8 years and 8 months ago. Have ... | William Soutar | Chambers | Twentieth Century Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 15 November 1827:
'Met with Chambers and complimented him about his making a clever book of the 1745 for ... | Walter Scott | Robert Chambers | History of the Rebellion 1745-6 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 15 February 1829:
'I wrought [i.e. worked at writing] to day but not much -- rather dawdled and took to rea... | Walter Scott | Robert Chambers | Picture of Scotland | Print: Book |