The following is a list of the people who are referred to directly, whose works were mentioned, or who are most likely the individuals referred to in a letter. Footnotes will indicate when the identity is hypothetical (or just a wild guess). The list grows as letters are transcribed and posted.
Adams, Sarah Flower (writer)
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (writer)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (writer)
Byron, George Gordon (writer)
Chauser, Geoffrey (writer)
Covernton, Dr. C.W. (founding member of the Ontario Medical Association)
Crabbe, George (writer)
Gardiner, William (composer)
Goldsmith, Oliver (writer)
Heber, Reginald (lyricist)
Hall, Foley (composer)
Kingsley, Charles (priest, writer)
Le Fanu, Sheridan (writer)
Linley, George (lyricist)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (writer)
McComb, William (writer)
Meredith, Owen (writer; pseudonym Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton)
Molière (playwright; nee Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Moore, Thomas (writer)
Reynolds, George W.M. (writer)
Root, George Frederick (composer, publisher)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord (writer)
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (writer)
Walhouse, M.J. (anthropologist)
Wolverton, Enos (founder of Wolverton, Ontario, Ida’s grandfather)
Wallace, Dr. James Maclaren
Webster, J.P. (composer)
Work, Henry Clay (writer)
York, Eva Rose (composer, writer, founder of Redemption House (1901, one of Toronto’s first homes for single mothers),Ida’s twin sister)