| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | 'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should... | Margaret Oliphant | George Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home a... | [?George] Simpson | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of aricle |
| 1850-1899 | 'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home a... | Old Mrs Simpson | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of article |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of ... | G.C. Swayne | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Blackwood, I have just read the opening article of Maga, and I cannot go to sleep, or make an attempt thereat... | R.H. Patterson | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melvil... | Colonel Moncrieff | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had... | "Old" Gleig | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Sir, I have just read "The Battle of Dorking". It is undeniably clever - but mischievous. [...] Panic assay... | Lord Brougham | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. Th... | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Blackwood [...] "The Private Secretary" picks itself up this month. I thought one or two of the recent numbe... | Theodore Martin | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gentlemen.
I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound f... | Francis Philips | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as ... | Alex Innes Shand | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | We have been much interested all along in The Private Secretary. | Emily Laszowska | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |