√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole (as 'Thelyphthorus') to Mary Berry, 28 April 1789: 'I send you the most delicious poem upon earth [Eras... | Horace Walpole | Erasmus Darwin | The Botanic Garden (part 1) | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 10 July 1789: 'I enclose a most beautiful copy of verses which Miss H[annah]. More wrote... | Horace Walpole | Hannah More | [verses on opening of walk by Bishop of London] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | In letter to Mary Berry and family of July 10 1790, Horace Walpole transcribes two passages from the Times of 8 July, ... | Horace Walpole | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I have most seriously been house-hunting for you. I saw two bills on doo... | Horace Walpole | anon | bills advertising houses for sale/to let | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 29 July 1790: 'I do hope you will be staggered about a longer journey [in Italy] for som... | Horace Walpole | | newspaper report on political developments in Italy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 16 October 1790, on concerns for her and her family's safety on return from travels in E... | Horace Walpole | | newspaper report of shipwreck | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cous... | Horace Walpole | Matthew Prior | The Turtle and the Sparrow: A Tale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 17 October (in letter begun 16 October) 1790, on visit from his friend, and Berry's cous... | Horace Walpole | Matthew Prior | Apollo and Daphne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 31 October 1790: 'Burke's pamphlet is to appear tomorrow, and Calonne has published a th... | Horace Walpole | Calonne | Lettre sur l'Etat de la France, present et a venir | |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 8 November 1790: 'In this country the stock of the National Assembly is fallen down to b... | Horace Walpole | Edmund Burke | Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 11 March 1791: 'I saw in today's newspaper, that the wife of the Margrave of Anspach is ... | Horace Walpole | | newspaper report of death of wife of Margrave of Anspach | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 12 July 1791: ' Mr. Batt [...] dined with me yesterday, and stayed till after breakfast ... | Horace Walpole | unknown | reminiscences | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 20 July 1791: 'I inclose the best printed account, I have seen, of the riots at Birmingh... | Horace Walpole | | newspaper reports of Birmingham riots | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | In letter to Mary Berry of 17 August 1791, Horace Walpole transcribes anonymously-authored, sixteen-line verse, sent t... | Horace Walpole | anon | 'Attitudes -- A Sketch' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 15 October 1793: 'I called on the Princesse d'Hennin, who has been in town a week [...] ... | Horace Walpole | ?Duchesse ?de Bouillon | Letters on developments in Revolutionary France | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 14 November 1793: 'I was grieved this morning to read in the papers that poor Jardin and... | Horace Walpole | | Newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 23 November 1793, on meeting Edward Jerningham ('the Charming Man') at a gathering at th... | Horace Walpole | Edward Jerningham | Prologue to The Siege of Berwick | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 21 April 1794: 'I have found on my table a rhapsody in verse on my recovery, so extravag... | Horace Walpole | anon | poem on recovery of Horace Walpole [apparently from illness] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 27 September 1794: 'I was diverted a few days ago by a paragraph in the "True Briton", w... | Horace Walpole | | The True Briton | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sansc... | Horace Walpole | [probably] James Murphy | [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilat... | Horace Walpole | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilat... | Horace Walpole | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is not my interest to recommend it but in justice to what I owe to your amusement I must advise you to read the Le... | Horace Walpole | Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy | Le Siege de Calais | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Walpole thought Johnson a more amiable character after reading his "Letters to Mrs. Thrale": but never was one of... | Horace Walpole | Hester Lynch Thrale | Letters | Print: Book |