| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | "When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent h... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | annotations to Samuel Richardson, Pamela | |
| 1700-1799 | "When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent h... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | annotations to Samuel Richardson, Clarissa | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1700-1799 | 'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I ha... | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Manuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel |
| 1700-1799 | 'Methinks, Sir, Mr Pope might employ his Time, and his admirable Genius better than in exposing Insects of a Day: For... | Samuel Richardson | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'what a charming instance have you given me, good sir, of the Restoration of [your health], if I may be permitted to i... | Samuel Richardson | Aaron Hill | Fanciad | Manuscript: Unknown, Richardson is about to print the manuscript |
| 1700-1799 | '[I am] pleased with Mr Whitehead's Essay on Ridicule, a Piece which shews the Goodness of the Author's Heart, so much... | Samuel Richardson | William Whitehead | Essay on Ridicule | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have bought Mr Pope over so often, and his "Dunciad" before his last new-vampt one, that I am tired of the Extrava... | Samuel Richardson | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'While I read [your letter], I have you before me in person: I converse with you and your dear Anna, as arm in arm you... | Samuel Richardson | Sophia Westcomb | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'There was no need to bespeak my Patience, nor anything but my Gratitude, on reading such a Letter as you have favoure... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done... | Samuel Richardson | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I admire you for what you say of the fierce fighting "Iliad"... I am afraid this poem, noble as it truly is, has done... | Samuel Richardson | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am very much obliged to you, for your transcriptions and observations from Pliny; as you say, I should never find t... | Samuel Richardson | Pliny the Elder | [observations and transcriptions from work] | Manuscript: Unknown, transcriptions by Susanna Highmore |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi... | Samuel Richardson | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha... | Samuel Richardson | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me ... | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me ... | Samuel Richardson | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Have you seen two volumes called "Deism Revealed"? 'Tis a well written piece, and much approved here. I think it is n... | Samuel Richardson | Philip Skelton | Ophiomaches: or, Deism Revealed | Manuscript: Unknown, MS of work Richardson printed |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wish you would cannonade this N[ewto]n. I cannot bear, that another of Apollo's genuine Offspring should pass down ... | Samuel Richardson | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'You guess that I have not read "Amelia". Indeed I have read but the first volume. I had intended to go through with i... | Samuel Richardson | Henry Fielding | Amelia (1st vol.) | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read through Lord Orrery's History of Swift. I greatly like it.' | Samuel Richardson | Lord Orrery | Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Swift | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ... | Samuel Richardson | Marcus Tullius Cicero | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ... | Samuel Richardson | Conyers Middleton | History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ... | Samuel Richardson | Colley Cibber | The Character and Conduct of Cicero Considered | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I remember once to have seen a little collection of letters and poetical scraps of Swift's, which passed between him ... | Samuel Richardson | Jonathan Swift | [letters and poetical scraps] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do ... | Samuel Richardson | Charlotte Lennox | The Female Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do ... | Samuel Richardson | Charlotte Lennox | The Life of Harriet Stuart, Written by Herself | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am very charmed, my dear Mr Edwards, with your sweet Story of a Second Pamela. Had I drawn mine from the very Life,... | Samuel Richardson | Thomas Edwards | [letter relating story of a real life 'Pamela'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Did you never, madam, wish for Angelica's Invisible Ring, in Ariosto's "Orlando"? - I remember when I first read of i... | Samuel Richardson | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | 'Determinta' | Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have nothing to say in favour or disfavour of the Shakespeare illustrated. Some pieces are not calculated for more ... | Samuel Richardson | William Shakespeare | [illustrated, edited version] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read your Objections to Sir Charles's Divided Love to Mrs Donellan. Just her sentiments, she said. And Harriet... | Samuel Richardson | Lady Bradshaigh | [comments on MS of Sir Charles Grandison] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read "the Hermit" and "Alfrida". There are charming Things in both. I read ... | Samuel Richardson | David Mallett | Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit | 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 | 'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give... | Samuel Richardson | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give... | Samuel Richardson | | The History of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give... | Samuel Richardson | Ninon de Lenclos | Letters of Ninon de Lenclos to the Marquis of Sevigne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Does your Ladiship see The Adventurer? I buy it; but have not had time to read but here and there one; But purpose fr... | Samuel Richardson | John Hawkesworth | Adventurer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 | 'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life" by Mr Mallet perhaps you... | Samuel Richardson | David Mallett | [Life of Bacon] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro'... | Samuel Richardson | David Hartley | [passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The princi... | Samuel Richardson | John Hawkesworth | [items in Cave's Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am employing myself at present, in looking over & sorting, & classing my Correspondencies and other Papers. This, w... | Samuel Richardson | various authors | correspondence and other papers | Manuscript: Letter, letters and papers |
| 1700-1799 | 'With us, the "Centaur not fabulous" has met with a pretty good Reception; tho' some good People wish that it had less... | Samuel Richardson | Edward Young | The Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Friend on The Life in Vogue | Manuscript: Unknown, printed by Richardson so presumably read in MS |
| 1700-1799 | 'I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not ap... | Samuel Richardson | Joseph Warton | An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not app... | Samuel Richardson | Thomas Browne | Christian Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not app... | Samuel Richardson | Fulke Greville | Maxims, Characters and Reflections | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them... | Samuel Richardson | Sarah Fielding | Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David Simple | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Who is this Yorick? you are pleased to ask me. You cannot, I imagine have looked into his books: execrable I cannot b... | Samuel Richardson | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] From Samuel Richardson's account of his childhood, up to about age 13:
'As a... | Samuel Richardson | | | Print: Book |