| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading... | Janet Schaw | Lord Kames | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sir, this book ("The Elements of Criticism", which he had taken up,) is a pretty essay, and deserves to be held in so... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Mr Murphy | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Oliver Goldsmith | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles th... | James Boswell | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of pun... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of a... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| | 'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Year... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |