| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | ?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning t... | Maria Edgeworth | John Wilkins | Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr Wilkins's new book of the " Character", and so to bed.'
(... | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr Wilkins his "Real Character", and perticularly about Noah's arke, where... | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".' | Elizabeth Pepys | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's "Reall Character", which doth please me mightily.' | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so with great content and joy home - where I made my boy to make an end of the "Reall Character", which I begun a... | | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Custo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Gardner Wilkinson | Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I read Dr Wilkins of prayer, and in reading the Bible observed and wrote downe in a book notes for matter, method and... | Isaac Archer | John Wilkins | A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".' | John Ruskin | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson | Egypt | Print: Book |