| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | '[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the... | Anna Larpent | William Mason | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them... | Samuel Richardson | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them ... | Lady Bradshaigh | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | A.E.W. Mason | Ensign Knightley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life by Mr Mallet" perhaps you... | Samuel Richardson | William Mason | [items in Dodsley's Miscellanies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: ... | G., Dowager Lady Spencer | William Mason | Poems (third volume) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Mason | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William] [Mason] | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mason | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have a... | James Boswell | William Mason | Memoirs of Gray | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his ch... | James Boswell | William Mason | [Memoir of William Whitehead] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Caractacus: A Dramatic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | James Boswell | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | Oliver Goldsmith | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then read Mason on self knowledge till dinner, not with so much attention as I could wish; I seldom attend sufficie... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Mason | Self-knowledge: A Treatise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, whic... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Mason | Self-knowledge: A Treatise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | Print: Book |
| | 'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Mason | 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story... | Mary Darby | Mason | Elegy upon the death of the beautiful Countess of Coventry | Print: Book |