√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 ' ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth].' William Wordsworth [summary of Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative ... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 " ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth]. Aware of W[ordsworth]'s interest in the Convent... William Wordsworth unknown Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armis... Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 Wu notes that Charles Lamb copied stanzas 20-53 of Charles Cotton, Winter, in letter to Wordsworth of 5 March 1803. Charles Lamb Charles Cotton Winter Unknown 1800-1849 'Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['On the Loss of the Royal George'] in a letter to W[or... Charles Lamb William Cowper On the Loss of the Royal George Print : Book1800-1849 'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Daniel Hymen's Triumph Unknown 1800-1849 'C[oleridge] read from Daniel, including Hymen's Triumph and Musophilus, during his stay at D[ove] C[ottage], 20 Dec. 1803-14 Jan. 1804 ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Daniel Musophilus Unknown 1800-1849 Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in... William Wordsworth Sneyd Davies Against Indolence. An Epistle Print : Book1800-1849 Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in... William Wordsworth William Enfield Speaker, The Print : Book1800-1849 '... in 1811 S[ara] H[utchinson] mentioned that Herbert Southey "can read Robinson Crusoe or any Book".' Herbert Southey Daniel Defoe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by... Print : Book1800-1849 'in 1804 [Robert] Southey noted that Hartley Coleridge "never has read, nor will read, beyond Robinson's departure from the island."' Hartley Coleridge Daniel Defoe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by... Print : Book1800-1849 'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.' William Wordsworth Rene Descartes unknown Unknown 1800-1849 'Notebooks i 1002, 1004 and 1005 reveal that, 1-9 Nov. 1801, C[oleridge] was reading a copy of Digby's Two Treatises (1645) borrowed from Carlisle Cathedral Library.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kenelm Digby Two Treatises, in the one of which, the nature of ... Print : Book1800-1849 'On the recto of a fragment of W[ordsworth]'s Prospectus to The Recluse [Dove Cottage MS 24], there appear the following lines:
"That noble Chaucer, in those former tim... William Wordsworth Michael Drayton Elegy to my dearly loved Friend, Henry Reynolds, E... Unknown 1800-1849 'C[oleridge]was ... reading ... [Dubartas his Second Weeke] in 1807.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Guillaume de Saluste Dubartas Dubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Pa... Print : Book1800-1849 'Southey had certainly read Dubartas by 2 March 1815 ... ' Robert Southey Guillaume de Saluste Dubartas Dubartas his Second Weeke: Babylon. The Second Pa... Print : Book1800-1849 'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... ' William Wordsworth Maria Edgeworth unknown Print : Book1800-1849 De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsworth indeed was greatly mortified ... ' William Wordsworth Gazette, The Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815:
'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has just now looked into it and found these words "All mod... William Wordsworth William Godwin Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupi... Print : Book1800-1849 'Prelude MS W contains a fair copy of a verse translation of the tale of the travellers and the angel from Gower's Confessio Amantis ii 291-364 in D[orothy] W[ordsworth]'... Dorothy Wordsworth unknown Tale Imitated from Gower Unknown 1800-1849 'On 7 Aug. 1805 the Wordsworths told Lady Beaumont that "We have just read a poem called the Sabbath written by a very good man in a truly christian spirit ... "' Wordsworth Family James Grahame Sabbath, The Unknown 1800-1849 'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, written at Coleorton, commending it as "exquisite".' William Wordsworth James Grahame Birds of Scotland Unknown 1800-1849 'C[oleridge] read Greville's A Treatie of Human Learning ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke Greville Treatie of Human Learning, A Print : Book'C[oleridge] read Greville's An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke Greville Inquisition upon Fame and Honour, An Print : Book1800-1849 'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... A Treatie of Warres ... in March 1810 at Allan Bank.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke Greville Treatie on Warres, A Print : Book1800-1849 'C[oleridge] read Greville's ... Alaham in March 1810 at Allan Bank.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fulke Greville Alaham Print : Book1800-1849 '[Mark L.] Reed judges that W[ordsworth] and D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied extracts from the Life [of Lady Guion] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 29 Sept 1800... Wordsworth Family Jeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte Guyon Life of Lady Guion, The Print : Book1800-1849 'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in July-Sept 1809 ... during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Herbert [poems] Print : Book1800-1849 'C[oleridge] was reading Herbert in ... Mar. 1810, during his residence at Allan Bank ... He was apparently reading his copy of The Temple ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Herbert Temple, The Print : Book1800-1849 '[Mark L.] Reed judges that a passage on pedlars from Heron was entered in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 5 April 1800 ... ' Wordsworth Family Robert Heron Observations Made in a Journey through the Western... Print : Book1800-1849 'On 29 Dec. 1806 Southey asked John May: "Have you seen the 'Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson'? Very, very rarely has any book so greatly delighted me."' Robert Southey Lucy Hutchinson Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governo... Print : Book1800-1849 '[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (Oct 1802)] comes in a letter of Jan. 1804 to [John] T... William Wordsworth Francis Jeffrey review of Thalaba Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, Dialogue Between a Mother and Child] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.' Charles Lamb Mary Anne Lamb Dialogue Between a Mother and Child Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, The Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.' Charles Lamb Mary Anne Lamb Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "Virgin and Child"] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.' Charles Lamb Mary Anne Lamb Virgin and Child Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "On the Same" ("Virgin and Child")] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.' Charles Lamb Mary Anne Lamb On the Same (Virgin and Child) Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I was pleased to find rather an out-of-the-way image, i... William Wordsworth Walter Savage Landor Simoneida Print : Book1800-1849 'De Quincey recalled the time ... when he persuaded W[ordsworth] to read [Harriet] Lee's The German's Tale:
'This most splendid tale I put into the hands of Wordsworth;... William Wordsworth Harriet Lee German's Tale, The Print : Book1800-1849 'On 19 Aug. 1810, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told W[ordsworth] that she was "reading Malkin's Gil Blas - and it is a beautiful Book as to printing etc but I think the Trans... Dorothy Wordsworth Alain Rene Le Sage Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, The Print : Book1800-1849 'In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that "Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] is the most funny one I ever read ... "' John Wordsworth M. G. Lewis Felon, The Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Wordsworth to Hazlitt, 5 March 1804: "I was sorry to see from the Papers that your Friend poor Fawcett was dead; not so much that he was dead but to think of the manner i... William Wordsworth [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807.... William Wordsworth Willam Blake [lyrics] Print : Book1800-1849 'W[ordsworth] and M[ary] W[ordsworth] copied four Blake lyrics from Malkin's volume into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between mid-March and 10 June 1807.... Mary Wordsworth Willam Blake [lyrics] Print : Book1800-1849 Wu notes translated extract from Sir Bors' lament for Arthur (in the Morte D'Arthur of Thomas Malory) in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book. Wordsworth Family Thomas Malory Morte D'Arthur Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'In late 1808 S[ara] H[utchinson] copied the description of the gawlin from [Martin] Martin, pp.71-2, into C[oleridge]'s notebook ... ' Sara Hutchinson Martin Martin Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, A Print : Book1800-1849 'C[oleridge]'s letter to S[ara] H[utchinson] of May 1807 contained a transcription of Marvell's "On a Drop of Dew".' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Andrew Marvell On a Drop of Dew Unknown 1800-1849 'Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.' William Wordsworth Andrew Marvell Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, ... Unknown 1800-1849 'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wiliam Gifford Introduction to The Plays of Philip Massinger Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ferriar [essay] Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 'W[ordsworth] was reading Michaelangelo's sonnets with a view to translating them from Dec 1804; his work on them proceeded ... throughout 1805-06, and apparentlly less i... William Wordsworth Michaelangelo [sonnets] Unknown 1800-1849 Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Sister read to me the Sonnets of Milton. I had long been... Dorothy Wordsworth John Milton [sonnets] Unknown 1800-1849 'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Paradise Lost - including Book I and Book VI, lines 767-... William Wordsworth John Milton Paradise Lost Unknown 1800-1849 '"In reading Lady Mary W Montagu's letters, whi[ch] we have had lately, I continually felt a want - I had not the least affection for her" D[orothy] W[ordsworth] to Lady ... Dorothy Wordsworth Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Letters Unknown 1800-1849 Recorded in Joseph Farington's diary, '[On 21 May] Sir George [Beaumont] mentioned the high encomiums for Wordsworth's "Excursion" in the Eclectic Review. Wordsworth had... William Wordsworth anon Eclectic Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '[Thomas De Quincey] got round to reading ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] only in late June or early July [1809], when "I read about 40 pages in the 1st. v... Thomas De Quincey Hannah More Coelebs in Search of a Wife Print : Book1800-1849 'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleridge] that "it is one of the very poorest sort of com... Charles Lamb Hannah More Coelebs in Search of a Wife Print : Book1800-1849 'The Wordsworths were reading the Morning Chronicle during the 1800s. It was the source of ... the recipe for croup medicine ... entered in the Commonplace Book.' Wordsworth Family anon [Recipe for croup medicine] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'In the Fenwick Note to The Pet-lamb, W[ordsworth] recalled: "Within a few months after the publication of this poem, I was much surprised and more hurt to find it in a c... William Wordsworth Lindley Murray Introduction to the English Reader Print : Book1800-1849 ' ... C[oleridge] was reading ... [Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria] on arrival at Allan Bank in Sept. 1808 ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Petrarch De Vita Solitaria Print : Book1700-1799 'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was the pleasure, pain or surprise increased by allowing t... John Clare Cinderella Print : Book1700-1799 'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was the pleasure, pain or surprise increased by allowing t... John Clare Jack and the Beanstalk Print : Book1800-1849 'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The Life of Mansie Wauch (1828): "I literally devoured it... a Scottish joiner's son David Moir The Life of Mansie Wauch Print : Book1800-1849 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ... Hugh Miller [the story of Joseph] Print : Book1800-1849 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ... Hugh Miller Jack the Giant Killer Print : Book1800-1849 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ... Hugh Miller Sinbad the Sailor Print : Book1800-1849 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ... Hugh Miller Beauty and the Beast Print : Book1800-1849 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ... Hugh Miller Aladdin Print : Book1800-1849 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ... Hugh Miller Homer the Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ... Hugh Miller Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1800-1849 '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. A... Hugh Miller John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. A... Hugh Miller Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 '"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. A... Hugh Miller Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Print : Book1800-1849 'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] made copies of extracts or complete texts from Philips' Collection in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between 10 July 1807 and c.5 J... Dorothy Wordsworth Ambrose Philips Collection of Old Ballads, A Print : Book1800-1849 'C[oleridge]'s study of Pindar in Oct. 1806, apparently begun in London and completed in Bury St Edmunds, was dependent upon the copy of Schmied's edition (Wittenberg, 1... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pindar Carmina Print : Book1800-1849 "On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont:
"'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, whi... William Wordsworth Sir Joshua Reynolds The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds Print : Book1800-1849 "On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont;
"'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at a Friend's house, and glancing over them, read thos... William Wordsworth Samuel Richardson The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selecti... Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert Southey on "The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson" in letter to C. W. Williams Wynn, 27 November 1804: "Richardson's correspondence I should think worse than an... Robert Southey Samuel Richardson The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selecti... Print : Book1800-1849 'On 29 Nov. 1805, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont: "I am reading Rosco's Leo the tenth - I have only got through the first Chapter which I find exceedingly inte... Dorothy Wordsworth William Roscoe The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth Print : Book1800-1849 ' ... by 11 Jan. 1806 ... [Southey] was reading ... [Roscoe, "Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth"] a second time [having read it to review it in 1805]: "I am come to R... Robert Southey William Roscoe The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth Print : Book'On 16 March 1840 W[ordsworth] told [Henry Crabb] Robinson that "C[oleridge]. translated the 2nd part of Wallenstein under my roof at Grasmere from MSS ..."' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller The Death of Wallenstein Unknown 1800-1849 Duncan Wu identifies poem transcribed in Wordsworth Commonplace Book and opening 'Sweet scented flow'r! who'rt wont to bloom / On January's front severe ... ' as Henry Ki... Wordsworth Family Henry Kirke White To the Herb Rosemary Manuscript : UnknownUnknown1800-1849 'C[oleridge] was a reader of ... [The Lady of the Lake]: he read Southey's copy in Sept. 1810 ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter Scott Lady of the Lake, The Print : Book1800-1849 '[Mark L.] Reed reports that W[ordsworth] copied quotations from Sennertus into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31 ... c.Feb.1801. They appear to have been copied from C[oleridge]'s... William Wordsworth Daniel Sennertus unknown Unknown 1800-1849 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch ... William Wordsworth William Sotheby I knew a gentle maid Print : Book1800-1849 'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby:
"I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch ... William Wordsworth Alaric Watts Souvenir Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'On 18 April 1807, C[oleridge] told Sotheby:
"I read yesterday in a large company, where W. Wordsworth was present, about 150 lines of your Saul, respecting your countr... Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Sotheby Saul, a Poem Unknown 1800-1849 'In early Oct. 1810 C[oleridge] wrote to W[ordsworth]: "I send the Brazil which has entertained & instructed me."' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey History of Brazil Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Entered by Coleridge in Wordsworth Commonplace Book:
'O holy peace by thee are only found
The passing joys that every where abound
Sylvester' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joshua Sylvester O Holy Peace Manuscript : UnknownUnknown1800-1849 'On 13 May 1812 [Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded in his diary: "William Wordsworth was more afraid of the liberal than the methodistic party on the bench of bishops, and r... William Wordsworth Jeremy Taylor Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, A Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Writing to Mary Monkhouse from Allan Bank on 19 April 1809, S[ara] H[utchinson] remarked that she had seen a churn "advertized in the Courier yesterday". She refers to ... Sara Hutchinson anon Courier Print : Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Southey describes arrival of 'literary remains' of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Kirke White, of Nottingham (2 vols, 1807):
'Mr. Coler... Robert Southey Henry Kirke White ["literary remains"] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Southey describes arrival of "literary remains" of Henry Kirke White at Greta Hall in his preface to The Remains of Kirke White, of Nottingham (2 vols, 1807):
'Mr. Coler... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Kirke White ["literary remains"] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Two poems in [Thomas] Wilkinson's hand, "I Love to be Alone" and "Lines Written on a Paper Wrapt round a Moss-rose Pulled on New-years Day, and sent to M. Wilson," copie... Wordsworth Family Thomas Wilkinson [poems] Unknown 1800-1849 '... ["A Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect"], by [Thomas] Wilkinson, in his own hand, was pasted into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... Wordsworth Family Thomas Wilkinson Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the... Unknown 1800-1849 'W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS "Tours of the British Mountains"] the passage which had inspired the Solitary Reaper [about a female reaper singing i... William Wordsworth Thomas Wilkinson Tours to the British Mountains Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'On 7 July 1809, W[ordsworth] told Thomas Wilkinson that "Mr Coleridge showed me a little poem of yours upon your Birds which gave us all very great pleasure."' Wordsworth Family Thomas Wilkinson To My Thrushes, Blackbirds, etc. Unknown 1800-1849 'On 13 May 1812, [Henry Crabb] Robinson asked W[ordsworth] about [John] Wilson's recently-published volume, The Isle of Palms: "He said he had seen only a few". W[ordswo... William Wordsworth John Wilson [MS poems] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Wu notes marginalia of Dorothy Wordsworth in Wordsworth Library copy of William Withering, An Arrangement of British Plants according to the latest improvements of the Li... Dorothy Wordsworth William Withering Arrangement of British Plants according to the lat... Print : Book1800-1849 'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annua... William Wordsworth Francis Wrangham [poem] Print : Book1800-1849 'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annua... William Wordsworth Various Annual Anthology Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Windsor], and that Ld. C[arlisle] was not present; I h... George Gordon Lord Byron anon Morning Post Print : Newspaper1800-1849 In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1803 edition of poem). George Gordon, Lord Byron William Cowper Friendship Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry Mackenzie) in praise of his Poems on Various Occasi... Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee George Gordon, Lord Byron Poems on Various Occasions Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry Mackenzie) in praise of his Poems on Various Occasi... Henry Mackenzie George Gordon, Lord Byron Poems on Various Occasions Print : Book1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for libel; witness reads to the court the offending paragraphs published in newspaper.
James Chetham: "...in that newspaper is the paragraph... James Chetham Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bardship is applauded far beyond my Deserts ... [the] cr... George Gordon, Lord Byron Various Monthly Literary Recreations Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Mr Gurney cross-examines victim Thomas Metcalfe in trial of Ann Wright for theft. During examination, reads to Metcalfe and the court an advertisement put in the newspape... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 During the trial of Jonathan Furlonger for theft, Mr Alley, in questioning witness Edward Pilcher, reads to the court a letter from Furlonger received by Pilcher. Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long account of Robbery &c. &c. committed on the persons o... George Gordon, Lord Byron anon [morning newspaper] Print : NewspaperManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Evidence in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods.
Prisoner Brown questions witness George Picard:
Q: "Do you remember that there was a newspaper on the table at... George Picard Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a 'bogus' invoice to the court:
Q: "Is the invoice in a business-like form?"
A: "Certai... George Deboos Manuscript : invoice1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a letter aloud to the court
Deboos: "After reading it, he handed it to me -(reads) 'Mr S... George Deboos Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for coining:
John Shobel: "Freeman, the inspector, stood by the fire, reading the newspaper at the time..." Joshua Freeman Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, I shall feel truly gratified in a personal acquainta... George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Charles Dallas unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for theft:
George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitechapel church; I have kept it thirteen years -I know ... Nicholas Benigne Ablin The Times Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for coining/forgery:
John Limbrick: "I am an officer of Hatton Garden. I was with Read at the Lincoln's Inn coffee-house; we sat down and h... James Clark Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositions....' George Gordon Lord Byron William Harness unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for theft:
Thomas Stevenson: "...next day he said they [stolen property] were advertised. I looked in The Times, and said it was not there.... Thomas Stevenson The Times Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for highway robbery:
John Gavill: "I saw his [Davis] examination in the newspapers... I read his examination in the newspaper and his siste... John Gavill Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for theft:
Eliza Morris: "I went to live servant at the Bank tavern, John-street, and one day I was reading the newspaper; the first thing ... Eliza Morris Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for theft:
Robert Ireland: "On the 11th of July, in the afternoon, these stockings hung by the door, inside the shop -I was sitting by the ... Robert Ireland Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for theft:
John Mims: "I am servant to John Bird, who keeps a cook-shop in Golden Lane. I was reading the newspaper, I heard the weights ji... John Mims Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for tax offences:
Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a letter, and told Griffiths of it, he offered to writ... George Griffiths Print : Book1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for tax offences:
Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a letter, and told Griffiths of it, he offered to writ... George Griffiths Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for tax offences:
Jane Fuller: "I heard about this business, three weeks ago. I heard Mr Lasken, of Grove Ferry, read in the newspaper that... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, not political, for we have the papers up to May.' George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... you remember he would not believe that I had written ... George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Brougham [speech] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi monumentum" into that language[.]' George Gordon Lord Byron Horace Ode ("Exegi monumentum") Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady of the Lake" advertised[;] of course it is in his o... George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers] Print : NewspaperUnknown1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady of the Lake" advertised[;] of course it is in his o... George Gordon Lord Byron Anon advertisement for Scott, The Lady of The Lake Print : Advertisement, NewspaperUnknown1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ... appears to be damned nonsense ... Galt also writ... George Gordon Lord Byron John Galt Fair Shepherdess, The Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Evening. - I had a straggling number of the E[dinburgh] ... George Gordon Lord Byron Various Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hints from Horace] ... The Horace I found in the conve... George Gordon Lord Byron Horace De Arte Poetica Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... ' George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think myself miserable, were it not for a kind of hysteric... George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to... Joseph Barker John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to... Joseph Barker The Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to... Joseph Barker John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1800-1849 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to... Joseph Barker Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to... Joseph Barker [ghost stories] Print : Book1800-1849 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to... Joseph Barker [highwayman stories] Print : Book1800-1849 [difficulty of uneducated readers grasping the idea that there could be two versions of a story]. 'Therefore [Thomas Carter]... not only read Revelations literally: he as... Thomas Carter The Bible - Revelation, Kings, Chronicles, Gospels Print : Book1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Dowlman: "I am a cheesemonger. The bacon is mine -I was reading the newspaper in the shop when it was taken." William Dowlman Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Spencer: "On the 6th of April, in consequence of what I saw in the newspaper, I went to Guildhall and saw my watch." John Spencer Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Canes: "I was reading in the newspaper at the public house that a man was taken about some pictures, and one of the people... James Canes Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for conspiracy:
Rev. Francis Lee: "In May last I saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper, in consequence of which, I went to no.3, White... Rev Francis Lee The Times Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Stevenson: "I saw the prisoner at the Black Horse... where I lodge... I returned there at a quarter before two o'clock -he... William Clements Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness reads letter aloud to court as evidence in trial for assault:
James Locke: "I have the letter. (reads) 'To Mr Reynolds, No.2 Little Peter Street...'" James Locke Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for forgery:
Henry Palmer: "In the middle of March, in the evening, I was sitting at the Bay-tree tavern, St Swithin's Lane, kept by one Phi... Henry Palmer Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Prisoner's defence in trial for forgery:
"On reading Bell's Weekly Messager of the 25th of January last, which fell into my hands, I found the following paragraph, whi... John Hill Wagstaff Bell's Weekly Messager Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Cammell: "I heard the prisoner was in custody a few days after -I read it in the newspaper." John Cammell Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft -shoplifting:
Wilhelmina Clarke: "I am servant to Mr Birt... On the 12th of May I saw the two prisoners come into the shop with tw... John Birt Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for misdemeanour:
Robert Coles: "I live at Southampton, and have been a cabinet maker. I saw in the newspaper an advertisement respecting ad... Robert Coles Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Joseph Ortega: "On the 16th of December about a quarter past six o'clock at night, I had been to a coffee house to see ... Joseph Ortega Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Elizabeth Walter: "I read in the newspaper, when I had a pint of beer, what a burglary had been done on the 6th, and I was cer... Elizabeth Walter Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Husband: "I have heard of his [Bowers] being in custody; I saw it in the newspaper." Thomas Husband Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the Times newspaper, an account of this robbery, and tha... Francis Gifford Banner The Times Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statements and prisoner's defence in trial for theft:
Francis Barnwell: "...the prisoner was then sitting down, reading the newspaper..."
Harriet Lindsey: ... William Tanner Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
James Carty: "Mrs Rankin said the robbery was done on Friday, the 1st of February; I do not recollect her mentioning th... James Carty Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Francis Jobling: "I am the prosecutrix's mother. On the evening of the 28th of March, she went out; the prisoner and I were in th... Elizabeth Harriet Guy Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Michael Thomas: "About a week afterwards I read something in the newspaper and went to the proscutors and communicated it to t... Michael Thomas Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
John William Harrison: "he (William Heath) was up in a corner of the tap room of the Castle and Falcon, which is very dar... William Heath Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
Stephen Davies: "on the 23rd of December he came again -I had the good fortune to read the newspaper that day" Stephen Davies Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for murder:
William Lee: "I am a prisoner in the New prison, Clerkenwell, charged with felony... On Saturday, there was a talk about clubbi... Samuel Arundel Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for forgery:
Philip Miller: "On the 27th of April I was at the Horse and Groom public house with Green, a butcher -Pillin and the prisoner w... Philip Miller Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for coining:
John Leeming: "a few days afterwards I saw something in the newspaper, went to Lambeth-street, and saw him in the cells" John Leeming Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'the only fiction [Robert] Roberts read as a boy was an abridged Welsh-language Robinson Crusoe' Robert Roberts Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for forgery:
George Coombs: "I appointed to meet him [Conway] next evening at the coffee house in Pickett-street; I did so -while we were in... George Coobs Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Taylor: "I did not know he [Crane] was committed [for trial] till I saw it in the newspaper" William Taylor Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Gilbert: "I saw the Times newspaper on the 22nd of March, and in consequence of an advertisement I came to London that ni... William Gilbert The Times Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Owens: "I saw him [Peacock] at our house on Saturday evening the 6th of March... I know it was the 6th of March from my s... William Owens The Times Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Jesse Adkins: "I am the landlord of the Laurel... My servant, Moore, came to me on the 20th of February -I went and missed a cand... Michael McCrea Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statements in trial for theft:
Lucy Tring: "In the parlour with me and my husband, who was reading the newspaper."
John Howe: "On Thursday, the 2nd of Septe... Thomas Tring Print : Newspaper, Pamphlet1800-1849 [reading the Bible], Robert Story, an early nineteenth century shepherd-poet, described the experience: "The unconsumed bush burned before me - the successive plagues tha... Robert Story [Bible] Print : Book1800-1849 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes,... William Heaton John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes,... William Heaton Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes,... William Heaton Tobias Smollett Roderick Random Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first... George Gordon, Lord Byron Francis Hodgson [translation of Juvenal] Print : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I have been reading Juvenal & Lady Jane &ca for the first... George Gordon, Lord Byron Francis Hodgson Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other Poems Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, verging towards Spinoza ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron Richard Watson Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters t... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published), entitled Oedipus Judaicus, in which he attempts to ... George Gordon, Lord Byron Sir William Drummond Aedipus Judaicus Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron Sir William Drummond Aedipus Judaicus Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the lines on Dermody so much that I wish they were in r... George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke [lines on Dermody] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the lines on Dermody so much that I wish they were in r... George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke [lines in the cave at Seaham] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend of mine (fifty years old & an author but not Rogers) ... [friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon Annabella Milbanke [poems] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] in M.S. & I then expressed my opinion of their merit... George Gordon, Lord Byron Bernard Barton unknown Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] in M.S. & I then expressed my opinion of their merit... George Gordon, Lord Byron Bernard Barton Metrical Effusions Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your second volume wherein I have retraced some of my old ... George Gordon, Lord Byron Edward Daniel Clarke Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and ... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and tw... George Gordon, Lord Byron various Morning Chronicle Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no paper but [James] Perry's [Morning Chronicle] and tw... George Gordon, Lord Byron various [Sunday papers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... mauled (I see) in the newspapers ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron various [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the specimen you send me is more favourable to her talents ... George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke [biography] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.' George Gordon, Lord Byron [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and Lady Oxford]; reading, laughing, & playing ... with y... George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the friend of Sir Philip Sidney) (which I wish to submi... George Gordon, Lord Byron Lord Brooke [untitled manuscript] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church and churchyard full of the most facetious Epitaphs I e... George Gordon, Lord Byron [epitaphs] Manuscript : tombstone epitaphs1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I heartily concur. - I wish I had the pleasure of Mr. ... George Gordon Lord Byron James and Horace Smith Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the ... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron Leigh Hunt Examiner, The Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke down with laughter.' George Gordon, Lord Byron Lord Thurlow "When Rogers ... " Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters from the Levant] ... I wish you had given us more ...... George Gordon, Lord Byron John Galt Letters from the Levant Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Urethra" I see most appropriately consequent - a poem w... George Gordon, Lord Byron anon advertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observat... Print : Advertisement, Newspaper
