| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was a... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Washington Irving | Life of Columbus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | Washington Irving | Orations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo... | Michael Stapleton | Washington Irving | Rip van Winkle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Washington Irving | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Washington Irving | The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful... | Thomas Carter | Washington Irving | Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Washington Irving | A Tour on the Prairies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 5 November 1823, from Guy's Cliff: 'In the evening, Greathead read a portion of Irving's "Dscours... | Mr Greathead | Irving | Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Irving | Sermons, Lectures and Occasional Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Irving | For Missionaries after the Apostolical School | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc... | Thomas Carlyle | W. Scott Irving | [poem celebrating peace at end of Napoleonic wars] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc... | Thomas Carlyle | W. Scott Irving | [essays on Burns and monuments] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [i... | Sydney Smith | Washington Irving | Astoria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I attended the first meeting of the Philathelic Society - There were many new members, but the society seemed to have... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Irving | Introductory Address | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827:
'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irv... | anon | Irving | preface | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...Washington Irving, too, has a few delightful fragments of equal fidelity, rendered elegant by the elegance of his ... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Washington Irving | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 October 1841:
'I had heard of Lucretia Davidson, in a passing way, & ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Washington Irving | Biography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Permit me to ask you to lend me for a few days Washington Irving's last exquisitely written and interesting work - th... | Mary Shelley | Washington Irving | Conquest of Granada, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have publ... | Thomas Carlyle | Edward Irving | For The Oracles Of God, Four Orations | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand ... | George Crabbe | Washington Irving | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862:
'I send you herewith a letter and pamphlet which was forwarded to me ... | George Grote | Irving | pamphlet on mythology and the human mind | |
| 1850-1899 | 'At "Rip Van Winkle" in evening, and much enjoyed it' | John Ruskin | Washington Irving | Rip Van Winkle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 8 April 1828:
'Learning from Washington Irving's description of Stratford that the hall of Sir Thomas Lucy... | Walter and Anne Scott | Washington Irving | Sketch Book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | 'Knickerbocker' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | The American Dutchmen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837:
'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimro... | Scrope Davies | Washington Irving | 'Stout Gentleman' | Print: Unknown |