ENGLISH POETRY, 1750-1855

Part 1: Recollections, Conversations and Commonplace Books of the Reverend John Mitford (1781-1859) from the British Library, London

Contents of Reels

REEL 1

Add Ms 32559:
Extracts from the Journal of the reign of King George the third by Horace Walpole. Material re Junius and Pitt.

Add Ms 32560:
Extracts from the Journal of the reign of King George the third by Horace Walpole.

REEL 2

Add Ms 32561:
Extracts from the commonplace books and other mss of Thomas Gray. Material re Richard West and Samuel Daniel.

Add Ms 32562:
Extracts from the mss of Thomas Gray. Material re Richard West, Horace Walpole and Thomas Ashton.

REEL 3

Add Ms 32563:
Extracts from the correspondence and papers of the Rev William Mason. Material re James Beattie, Horace Walpole and Lord Harcourt.

Add Ms 32564:
Anecdotes of Sir Joshua Reynolds by William Mason.

Add Ms 32565:
Correspondence of the Rev Jonathan Toup with James Harris, William Heberden, Samuel Musgrave, Anthony Askew, Richard Pocock and Jeremiah Miller.

Add Ms 32566:
Recollections (consisting of anecdotes, table-talk, notes of readings etc) re Horne Tooke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edmund Burke, Charles James Fox, William Beckford, Samuel Rogers and others.

REEL 4

Add Ms 32567:
Recollections (consisting chiefly of conversations with Samuel Rogers) re Alexander Pope, John Dryden, George Crabbe, William Jackson, William Beckford and others.

REEL 5

Add Ms 32568:
Recollections (consisting of anecdotes, table-talk, notes of readings etc) re Samuel Rogers, H Crabb Robinson, Sydney Smith, Richard Porson, R B Sheridan, and others.

REEL 6

Add Ms 32569:
Recollections (consisting chiefly of extracts from the correspondence of Horace Walpole and William Mason) with William Whitehead, William Alderson and others.

Add Ms 32570:
Recollections (consisting of anecdotes, table-talk, notes of readings etc) re William Maltby, D E Davy, William Alderson and Harriet and Mary Alderson.

REEL 7

Add Ms 32571:
Recollections (consisting of anecdotes, table-talk, notes of readings etc) re Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Holland, Wellington, Abb McQuinn, Horne Tooke, John Locke, John Ruskin and others.

REEL 8

Add Ms 32572:
Recollections (consisting of anecdotes, table-talk, notes of readings etc) re George III, Lord Holland, Wellington, Sydney Smith, Sir Thomas Lawrence and others.

Add Ms 32573:
Recollections (consisting of anecdotes, table-talk, notes of readings etc) re Elizabeth Carter, Thomas De Quincy, John Ruskin, John Sterling, R B Sheridan, Hannah More, William Cowper, Pitt the Elder and others.

REEL 9

Add Ms 32574:
Recollections (consisting of anecdotes, table-talk, notes of readings etc) re P B Shelley, Thomas Moore, John Kemble, Sir Joshua Reynolds, G Wakefield, Charles James Fox and others.

REEL 10

Add Ms 32575:
Recollections (consisting of anecdotes, table-talk, notes of readings etc) re Robert Southey, Lord Sidmouth, Dean Pellew, Oliver Goldsmith, John Forster, William Wilberforce, Horace Walpole and others.

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