William and Mary Howitt- Bibliographical notes

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Notes

through i 54 Presumably Percy

dc-cid e d to on1 it j t because Shensto nc, ,vho read the poem ju the 172 3 Col-·

Jectiou of Old Ballad~1 thought it a

'very cold NaLTative.' 0

'The Dying Shepherdess' ,vas to occupy the three f o llff\Vi n g p agesi but

page 2 57 ,vas presun1ably ne,Tcr in print, for Jines 32-37 are s\1pp1ied in

rnu nus cri pt Evid en tI y Pe re y d.ecid cd

to on1i t th c po en1 before the printer

ever reccjved copy for sh~et S Al-though the headnote announces that it

is 'Printed ( wit b sou1e corrections)

wi1 h two black-letter copies in the

Pepys collection/ it fa so changed from the 'An1yntas~ of the Folio as to he

ahnost unrccognizab]e, a fate ,vhich

,vas un for tuna tel r far f rorn unique

Fron1 these changes ;.-vhich Percy cff cctcd during the pdnting one can ohs er\.rc n e\v d eta i 1 s of the pro cesscs

11 Sh e:n:ston e to Pe rcr, n d ·i in th~

I-I:a.r-Ya rd Percy Pape.rs, folder 2.73 It is printed

j n She nstoneis tetters,, p 6 58 Th!! re arc t\\'O

id enti c:2J pra ofs of 'A 1 p l10ns o :.1 n d G onsa lcz'

in fold~r 2.75

"·hich helped to alter the selection and

treatrncnt of 1natcrial for the Jleliques

Among th csc process es sever~ l, most

of them already familiar to students

of Percy, -are particuhlrly notable

Th us he exhibited i ncrcas i ng tact in ominjng poe1ns ,,rhich., like 1Thc Jolly

Ilcggar/ might shock some of his read-en;, and in altering 1naterjpJs so as to J9attcr rather than offend the fatnily

pride of aristocrats like the Gon]ons and Lady Percy l\·1oreov-e:r Shenstonc,

until his death early in J 763, exerted consI d era b 1 c influence to,va rd the s ~-lcc cj on, arrangement 1 and

n1odcrniza-t1on of materi~l Yet after the

print-jng begant Percyt as h~s been seen,

de-cided to lin1it the reprinting of such

Cavalier 1 yrics as Ca.re,;,v1s and to

sup-press i\·iar.shall's rnodern bal1ad 4AHen

:ind l\1ary/ Thus Percy~s o,vn copies

of the Reliques of Ancient English

Poetry reveal n1ore clearly than before

a shift n,vay f ron1 the n1aterjal

jadi-catcd ·by the ear1icst rt1nni ng ritJe

BAL-LADS.'

\Villia111 and Mary Howitt: Bibliograpl1ical Notes

BESIDES their friendships ,vitb

\Vords\1.1orth, Hllnt, ~J'enny-sont D j c kenst Elizabeth Bar rctt

Ilro,vning, the Rossettisi and m~ny

other pro1n inent nine tccnth-c en tu I")r

fig LJrcs, WiJ ]jam and 1\1 n ry I-I ff\V.ltt

tnadc -a claim upon readers of English ] itcra n1 re by num bcrlcss con tri bu ti ons

to periodjca]s and one hundred and

eighty or n1ore separately puhlishcd

,vorks -1vhi~h achieved a tot-al of

about seven hundred editions and issues rrhey quickened the strennl of in1agjnative books for children: i\1nry

j n trod uccd I-J-n n s Christian A ndcrscn

to English readers, and ,vrotc •The

Spjdcr -and the Fly-1 in her series first

collected as Sketches of l'-tatural His-tory 'fhcy transfotcd frorn Gcrn1an, Danish, Dano-Nor, rcgia.nl s,vcdish,

and French They ,,.rrote the first sub-stantial Ji:ng1ish history · of

Scandina-Harvard Library B11llet111

v kl n liter a n1 re They made the rural

]ife of England their particular don1ain for half a cenrurv .J

cons tru c ti ve critj c of Q u c1 k erism f ron1

,vithin the Society of Friends From

I 8 33 to 1848 he aided the moven1ents

for disestablishtncnt of the Church and

refon11 of Parliament ,vith such books

as A Popular Histor·y of P1-iestcr«ft

in All !Jges and Nations and Tbe

pseu-donym of ~John I-Ian1pdcn~ Junr.~)

By r 8 5 3 he had added 1:\-ustra]ian ex-ploration to the topics ort ,vhich he

\\'rote ,vith authority, though ,vith haste 1·en years later he becan1e

Eng-hnd';; most prolific advocate of the

'Christi [In b r~ nch i of spiri tua lis1n

Shortly after his death at Ron1c in 1879~ lvlary joined the Catholic Chu re h~ b econ1ing a revered ] a

y-\Vom an She then matched her hus-band's· standard Ho1nes and Htrunts of tfJe Atort E11tiuent British Poets ,vith

a self-censored ln1t ·valuable " ork,

A1ary Ho7.vitt: An A1ttohlog~·apby,

I 889, edited by their daughter i\1ar-garet

No general bib Ji o graph y of the

Ho\dtts has been pubUshed The Ii~t belo\l'" 1s intended -as a supplement to

the entries under the 1-lo\i.Titts in the

Dictionary of National Bio~tttpby~

T1Je Ca,nbridge Dihlio graphy of

En~-lfrh Literaturet the pub]ishcd cata-Joguc.~ of the Ilrirj~h l\1uscun1 and the

Library of Congress, and Joseph Smith~ A Descriptive C n t al o gue of Friends"/ Books ( 2 _vo]s , J.,ondon, 1867~

and Supp!eu,ent, 1 893 ) 1 It includes

i lt may be noted that I·Io,~·ht almost

ce-r-tainl y cuu 1 d not have been, as the ClJ EL

s~ys he v.·ns 1 editor of the Aurora Borctilfr,

(in each case in the earliest known

cd i r ion) ,vo r ks not pre vi ousl y a nri b-ute d 1 ,i.·orks by "''il1jam \vrongly at-trih11ted to l\-1ary1 and one

work-''.rrust and Trial, by Bjornson-in

\'vhich the author is here firs·t

identi-fied+~ Location of one access1bl c copy

of each i rcn1 I istcd is given ,vh enc ,r er

kno-\vn

\VILLIAi\1 Ho,v1TT1 ] 792-1879

Friends- of Rtchard Le.aver, of lvh1.ns-ne1d, i:.:~.rho Suddcn]y Expired in Gr~~-i;;-Jey Bih]c !\.f coting,, 9th j\1onth ;! 3rdi

1 81 7 1'.·1 ~nsfie] d : Printed by R, Col I

in-so n., 1818 [Frie11ds Horlfe 1 J oudo1.1.]

\Vi lliil m H o\vi tt"s S ccond Le ttcr to A.rchdoacon ,,:i'ilkin~, in Rcp1y to His·

Postscript of July 25th ~eprinted

fron1 the Nottingham R-evie"\ ,vith ,-Pnstscript Nottingham: R Sutton1

Review Office, 1 8 3 3, [ N Otting b11n1

Public.]

George Fox and His First I) i sci ples; or 1

The Society of Friends as It l\' ~.s, and

as It Is Phi I a de] phi a~ 1\.1er rihc,v &

Gunn 1 l 83 7 r,3aston Public.]

The Grey Squirrels, ·London: Henry Fro\vd c i:t ud I I odd er & Stoughton

[19l o?J [Froui The Boy's

Conntty-Ilooki 1839 Bodlefon.]

['J\1-ory· J-Jo,vitt i] ~ 1 o Sense Like

Cum-:rnon Sense; or, Some Pa~s~ges jn the Life of Char1es l\1iddicton 1 Es-9 [by

\\JjlJfanl I-Io\\'itt] London; Thoma~

Tcgg, 1843 [Btiti:rb Aiuseuui.J

[cA.1ary Howitt-/] l\1y Uncle the

Clnct:-1na kcr A 1 ale [by \' 7 i1 lian1 I-I o,v i tt]

J_.ondon: Thomas Tegg [ 1844] i.Tales

[Britis/J Afuse1l111 Harvard bar Nc\v York and Phil~dc1phia1 1845 .J

transla ti ons f ro111 the H O'i.'i.' ins; :- can \'ass.i ng

of European libra rics ,;,voul d und oub tc d I y pro,Ti de a const dcr:a hie array,

Notes 2 5 3

W illfam How ittls Repl )' to ]\ i r

Saun-ders 's Appeal to the Press and the Pub-lic, · Londou; Ho\\ 1 itt's Journal, r 84 7

[H ar-trar d J

Letters to the f 1 ere hants g.n d M cc 11nni cs

of Enghnd"t on the True Importanc-e

of India to This Country London!

H D\V ite's Jou ma l O ffi.ce~ 1 84 7 [

Uni-~versit y of Bir'luingf1mn.]

The Kie k1e b urys on the Rhi nc By j\iJ _ A

Ti tn1arsh [ pseud ·i \ ':\li1 I ia m l\1 kcpe:~ ec

Thackcr8:y] Autnnn,~ l Excurs-ions

tl, roll g h the Oden ,v~ 1 d., the Necker th al and the H~~rdt; \dth Tales for the Road [f ron1 The Year -Il ook of the Country]~ by "\Villiam Ho\vitt

Frank-fort on the J\1ain: Charles J ugcl 185 L

I

[ H ar•va rd~]

Fortune 'Vlildred, the Foundling+ Also Liz:dc Leigh1 and The i\iincr's

Daugh-tc rs N e,v ··~{ or k: De \~i'] tt & Davenport

[ c~ 18 53] [FT01U Household ,~r ords

H 0"11:i t t rwrote-The l\ii ncr-'s l):.l 1.1 gh te rs,

Ne-w York Public+]

Hoines and Haunts of the ,vise -and Good; or, Visits to Ren1~rlcahk Places

in English I-Ji"story and Literature By

J\·trs S C 1·1~11, ,villhnn I-101-dtt"t

Thomas Gratt-J.n [and others] Phila-delphia: J ,v Bn1dler, 1859~

[Re- prints elxrpter froni Hoinc~ ~nd

l iaunts of the ~1ost Ernincnt British

Poets, 1847 New York Public 1-lar-vard b,1s ,860 printing.]

Ric.:hard Cobden and \:\ 1"illiarn 1-Io,vitt on Co-operatjon~ 1\-lanchester: Henry

Pjr-~nnn [c J 86:2]~· [Reprinted f ronz tbe

Cu-o l )C-rato r Co lu~uhi a.]

Sph-i t l\1 an i festatl on s: A Letter by-,v

il-Ham Howittl Puulishcd jn 1862~ Com-menting on the O d ic Theory of Rev

A.1r r 1lh~n Boston: The A1neric~n Libcnd ·r r;1ct Society [r 8'63? ]L 'No 9.' [I obn Rylands.]

Poetica] \Vurk~ By Thnnrns J\f oorc,

,vith a Life of tl\c Author fby \Villi~n1

Hu \\'i tt 7, Lon(l on: llo nll odgci \Varn c

& Routledge 1 1864 [Abridges ·ebapter

f rou i Homes and Haunts, 1 84 7 l\r ew

York Public.]

J\•ico dom.ia 11s nd Tho n1asia ns London;

The Spiritu .1 l L yccu1n, r 86 5 'Tl 1e

Lyceum Tracts No r.~ [Jo-bn

Ry-lrrnds.]

Letters on Spi ritu 2 I ism London= The

Spi ri tll al Lyceum, 1 86 5 'The Spiritual

Lyceum Tracts~ No+ 7/ [John

Ry-landr~]

lV hat Spiritualism Has Taught ( R

c-printed from the Spiritual Afatazine+)

London= Th nm-as Scott-; ls] e of -l~/ i g ht:

F N Brodericki l 86; [II ar,vm·d.J

Thro,ving of Stones and Other

Snb-Btances hy Spirits Extra r.tcd from t h.e

1 Spirit11~l .l\1agi1.ir1c' for Jflnu3ry and

February 1865 London: Thmnas

Scott [1865J L]obn Rylands.]

l\1 ARY (BOTI-IAl\1) H o,v1TT

1799-1888 Fis her 's D r::rwing Rn nm Sc rAp~ llD ok

l\1fJCCCXL, \Vith Poetjcal

lllustra-tions by L[ etitia] E[Iiz-abeth]

L[an-don] and i\•lary Ho\\'itt London:

Fishcrt Son & Co.:; Paris: Qu8!i <le

J}Ecolc, 1 B" 40, [Uri tiib i\1 use1ou J Fishet"s Dra\" 1 ,ring Room Scrap-Hool i\1 DCCCXLL Vli th Pocti cal Ill ust

rs-ti ons hy T\-1:~ry I·Io,vitt London:

Fish-er1 Son & Co.; Paris: Qu~i de L,Ecol-c~

1841 [Britisb Alus-ez11u.]

[Tbe saute.J i\·IDCCCXLll 184:1:

[Bfit-isb il1useu111.]

The Ford F::unily; oT, Little Co1n] 1\1-uch

Cure '''ith Illustrations London:

Frederjck '''-arne & Co le r 88 I J

[Revision of Little Cojnt l\1uch C-arc;

orl Ho,v Poor j\-len LhTe 1 1 S-42

Uni-f[.iersity of Din:ninghrm1.J

Martha and 1\1.:a ry: A True Narr a thTe

Re printed from ~Tiu: Il ritt5 h Friend t

[1843 J St~fTord: J Ha]dcn [!13].Jcn

& Haygood, Ltd.], 1930 [f'rlendf

House, London.]

'

Ha rvnr d J_,i bra ry Bu !I eth1

The Fairies of the Ca1don-Lo,v A

l\1id-sum 111 er Legend I on don f printed l !

N cw York, nd lJ omba y: Lo ngmans!

Green & Co [c 190ol ~Longman~.i

Series of Rcci til tions No J 4 jl [ F ro?J i

n~Hads and Other Poen1s! 184 7

Bod-Jefon+]

'fhe Story of -a Happy Home; _or! The Cl1ildren's Year, and Ho,v They Spent

It London, Fdinhurgh 1 and Nevv York: T[hon1as] Ne1son & Sons-1

1 87 5, [ Revi si-0-n of The Children's

Ye-ar, 184 7.]

The Playm~te! A Plea.sa.nt Companion

for Sp:1 re Hours Cont;li n ing T :lI cs by

Mary 1-1 on·itt, F clix Summer ly [Sir Henry Cole] 1 J E Tay]o.r, &c+ Lon-don: J nscph Cundallt r84 7

fUniva'f'-sity of Binningl,:r111.J

I S~tldlcr MuHcr's ,vcndol [by Jvi~ty Howitt 7 lV"i th Other T aJ.es Ila sto n:

Crosby; Nichols & Co [c r851]

f lornl G c111s By l\1a ry Howitt and Others Nc\v York: E, G ·r:l>7lor,

1847 [Nc·w Y()rk Public Harvard bar

N c, 1 1 York: C P I-f ucstis, 1 849 J

i\-ly Juvenile Daysi and Other Tales

Ne,v York: 11 Appleton & Cn., 1850+

Autobiography of a Child! 1844;

,~rhich Is the "\Viser, 184-i; ,vho Shall

Be Gee ate.st, 1841 Cof~nubicr.]

Ju -ven ile , Tales and Stories+ Nc\v- York:

D App1eton & Co 1 1850 [l1Jcludes

• 1 hc '"f "\vo Apprentices, c 1845 i i\1y

Uncle the Clock1naker, I 844; Hope

On! Hope E\Tcrli l840 "fi.,.7ew York I'ubnc ]

The Christnrn s ~free: A H nok of Stories

N e\r York: C S Fr~nds & Co.;

fro'IJt 11iagnzines an~-i an111wl1~ lVew

York Public.]

Pictures and Verses for Young People

Nc\v York: Le,sis Colhy & Co,i I_85 3 ·

[Colh:tted · fro~n 111agazi-ne; · and

an-nutr/J 1, 7 ew York Public.]

l\1idsummer Flo\vcrs; ort The Djal of Lo,·c at Nuonday A V0Iu1nc for the Young London: Darton & Co [1853],

[1\1ew edition of The Di-al of Love,

185 z, U11k 1 erslty of Binningbmn.]

A Hirthtlay Gift The Dfa1 of Love A

Book for Young People+ Lon don!

Danon & Co [c J857] [New edition

of The Dia.l nf Lov-c1 18 51 U rniver ri ty

of Bi rn1ingban1 J

Stories in Rhyn~c-.-Boston: llco\vn! B'lz.in

at be r works Bost on Pub Ji c +]

[Bjornson, lljornstjerne.] Trust and

Trial A Story fro1n the Danish by l\-f a ry Ii O\V j tt+ London: Hurst ind

Rla c:-kett, I 8 5 8 [ H aruard.]

Peter Dr~ kci s Dreamt and Other Stol·i cs

Ne,Y York! James Miller, 1866

[Col-le ctcd f ro'IJ i at her work r Boston

Pub-1 i c J

A11 Is Not Go id That G li ttc rs London [printed Guildford] and K e,v York~

Frederick ,;Varne & Co [c, 1870]

[Afrs Edit.b L TVilson,

1Valton-on-T }J~1ne s .J

Songs of Animal Life: ~OE:!O\S by 1\·f~ry

l·Io,~rjtt London., Edinburgh [pnnt-ed] 1 and Ne\v ·York: Thrnn~s Nc1son

& Sons [ c I S 70] , f t:n fo rJ;ed f ro111

Sketches of Naturn1 Hhtory, 1834

A r~,\-' '\::\'orrk on Ncg1cctcrl Snhjnct

Sp ccia 11 y Add rcsscd to 1· h osc \Vho

H rrre Ca re of the Yo ll ng + London: S

"\V' Partridge & Co [n d.] [ Uuivcrsiry

of Di ru1in gbmu.]

,vith the llirds: Pocn1s by l\'lary I-Io\\'itt

fa-comclli Lon don [printed J, Edi

ri-hurgh, and Ne,;,,• York: Thomas Nel~

llird:: and Flo,vers and OthGr O:luntry

Things, 1838t (md Birds and ~!'heir

Notes

1\\~sts ( c 1871 ) A!rs Edith L lVilsont lValta1~-on~Tban1es J

The Spi dcr & the F 1 y [ ,s.-~it h J 1~h y S·wcet

Lon-don: F J-Iodgcs, from Pitts• Toy ind f\1arb]c ,varehouse [n d.] [The

Spider and the Fly 'l,l,'(IS pJ rated as a

Peter P:.:1.rlcy poe1n as early ar 1S 3n

JI o d I e Jan.]

lncludjng the 8 itenls noted above,

the Harvard Library hold~ ahout 2 1 o

editions and issues of I-I o,vitt tit1es

Hnrvard thus has the largest kno,vn collection of books by the Ho\\'itts jn

the United States In a.dd1tion~ there

w

ate in the Library unpublished Jetters

to Eli 7.a l\if ~teyard ( 2 1 4), J\1 r and i\1 rs

Jatnc.~ ~r Fields (5 ), Ralph ,,r aldo E1ncrson (4) 1 f\1r and iVlrs S C HaU

( 2 ), \~li1Iiarn Dean I-iov~•c1ls ( 2 ) 1

I-Jcnry Colburn ( J), 1-larriet 1\i1 ur-tineau ( 1 ), J J Smith (1)~ and Ben-jamin \:\' ebstcr ( 1) T,vo Hovdtt let-ters at Harvard concerning l(eats and other Ron1antic poets have been pub-lished hy Professor I~I ydcr Fi llo11ins

jn Tbe Keats Circle: Letters and

1948)

CART, ll \VoooR ING

Ilusi11ess Ma11t1scripts i11 tl1e Baker Library·

T I-JE pub1ication of a ne,v list

of the n\~nm,cripti;; jn the Baker Library of the HarYard Graduate School of llusincs.1;

Adn1in-istratjon is an appropri:.ltc thne to ta1~c stock of tne gro"'"th of the collel:tions

Ir is nineteen years since the appear-ance of a first Hst, and thirteen years since Arthur H Cole surveyed the col-1ections and the procedures for hnn-clling thctn in the Library Quarterly rl 1"hc fact that the ne,v ]ist contains

rnore than nvjce a5 many entries as the old is an jndkati on of the gro\vth

of the J'danuscript ]Jivision of the

Li-brary; and there have been some

Library, compiled by l\1argarct R Cusid.:

B rodu:~r.,;;~ · T n c, t Ann A rLot 1'h is n,c w Lin

1na y be obta inc d f roru Il31,er Library~

Anhur I·J Cole, ~1~usincss j\1-a.nuscripts:

Co1lection, 1iandling, 3nd Cataloging/

Li-br~trj,' Q ;rnr terl y ! v·1 ]I ( 19 3 8)' 93-1 I 4 ·

changes in p roccd urc since Pr of ess:or

re-cent dc,relopments arc descdbed, a

brjef rcvjc\v of the history of the

col-]eccing of business l)lanuscripts at 1-1~

r-v-ard 1nay be helpful

Baker Lihrary and earlier lVidener.,

\li.'ere an1ong the first instjtutions to

collect and care for busjncss records

on a large scale~ 1~he I-Iarvard

Com-111 i s~i on on '\:\' cstern History· hn d I been

instrun1enral in olltaining such nrnte~

rj:ils for '''idcncr e\Ten before Oean

Gn y ·and Prof cssor Cole in 1916 ac-quired the Slater Co]Icction for the

Il u sin es~ Schoo 1 Th es c fifteen h

un-d reun-d vohun es of records of th c 1n any

Slater cotton =i.nd ,voolcn mills stiH

cons ti h1te one of the Jargcr nnd n1orc valuable co1Icctions; and their handling

set the pattern for many· si111ilar masses

of nrnterj nl "\\1ith the co1np]ction of

Ba1~cr Lihray jn 192 7, it ,vas possible

to set up a Dh·ision of l\1anuscrjprs 1n reason a 1} 1 y a cl cq u:1 te q u artcrs The

or-List of Contribtttors

l\1 A DF.lVoLFE Ho,vE 1 Boston, 1\1.assachusctts

G~ W~ Col'llIBLL~ JR~ Editor in the Harv·ard University Library

1-IENRY ] CADBURY., l{ollis Professor of Dh1 inity- nnd Dexter J_,ecurrer on

Bib] ica l Li tcra tu re- I-I a r~la rd Uni vcrsi qr, and D j rec tor of the Ando

vcr-I-1 a rva rd 1 · heo lo gj cal J ,ib raty

CAROLI::iE ~OBBIN~ 1 Professor o~ I&Iistory, Bryn i\.ia,vr College

PHILIP I-ioFER, L~cturcr on Fine Arts, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts

in the CoHcgc Library, and Sccren~ry of the Ul'Hli:arn Hayes l~"ogg Art

-~ 'i uscun1 j Harvard University

K:r,vEs D~ lVIETCALF~ Professor of Bib]iogra.phy, Director of the 1-Iarvard Uni-versj ty Library and Li bra.ria n of I-'ia rvard Co llcgc

~~n,v1N }:~ \\ 1 1LI.TA~1~ 1 Chief of the Accpiisition Depattn1ent of the 1-Inrvard

Co I leg c Library

~- E GALLA1'JN~ ~e,v: "\'" ork Ciqr

L i\1 OL1v·ER, AssishHlt to the Librarian jn the Hnughton Library, I·Iarvard University

\\Tr GT CoNSTAU.LE, Curator of Paintings! i\1useum of line Arts, Boston

CARL R Wooon1NG, Instructor jn EngJish, University uf \Viscunsin

RonERT \\' T ~OVF.TT, H c~ul of the iV1 anuscri pt Divis1on 1 Baker Library, Harvard

University