| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle o... | William Wordsworth | John Wilson | [MS poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read and fin. City of the Plague' | Mary Shelley | John Wilson | City of the Plague, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the "Noctis Ambrosianae" which I purc... | John Buckley Castieau | John Wilson | Noctes Ambrosianae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, ... | Eleanor Anne Porden | John Wilson | The City of the Plague | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?3 March 1843:
'Mr Kenyon calls Christopher North a "glorious brute" -- ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Wilson (as Christopher North) | The Recreations of Christopher North (vol. 3) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]... | Charlotte Bury | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]... | Miss [-] | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in li... | James Hogg | John Wilson | City of the Plague, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to ... | James Hogg | John Wilson | [ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think very highly of both the books you have sent me but far most highly of Lights and Shadows in which there is a ... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellan... | James Hogg | John Wilson | [various items in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am delighted more than I can tell you with Margt Lindsay. It is a charming work pure, elegant, and perfect; all sav... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Trials of Margaret Lyndsay, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Wrestliana', in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articl... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Hints for the Holidays. No. III' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is ini... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight y... | James Hogg | John Wilson | 'Unimore. A Dream of the Highlands' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the appearance of Mr Wilson's "Isle of Palms", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scen... | James Hogg | John Wilson | Isle of Palms, and Other Poems | Print: Book |