Chronology of the Life of John Thelwall
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| Date | Place of Writing | Event | Writings, Lectures, Publications | Correspondence | Related Events & Activities | Sources | Bibliography/Location |
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| July 27, 1764 | Chandos St. Covent Garden | birth of John Thelwall, to Joseph and Mary Thelwall | |||||
| 1764-81 | residence alternates between family shop in Covent Garden and home in Walcot-Place Lambeth | HCT Life of JT | |||||
| Summer 1769 or 1770 | Margate | summer seaside vacation with family provides occasion for visionary episode described in "A Childish Retrospect" in The Peripatetic | HCT Life of JT and Peripatetic | ||||
| 1770 | birth of William Wordsworth | ||||||
| Circa 1768-74 | early education with Rev. Pierce (Lambeth) and Mr. Dick (Hart St., Covent Garden) | HCT Life of JT | |||||
| 1772 | Covent Garden | death of father, Joseph Thelwall | birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge | DNB | |||
| 1774-1777 | Highgate | sent to boarding school in Highgate, friendship with tutor 'Harvey' and Philip Bonafous | HCT Life of JT, Peripatetic | ||||
| mid-late 1770s | Thelwall's "rage for theatricals" begins: he performs in school and family productions; tickets for Covent Garden theatre on sale at Thelwall shop, where actress in Garrick's company also boards | HCT Life of JT, Alan Andrews | |||||
| 1777-1780 | Covent Garden | removed from school to work in family shop, domestic abuse and conflict intensifies; pursuing theatrical ambitions, applies to Colman the Elder at Haymarket & is discouraged | HCT Life of JT | ||||
| 1780 | West End | is apprenticed to tailor for 1.5 years, begins habit of 'midnight rambles' and peripatetic reading, spends much time at Walcot Place (for health), is mugged on way to Walcot Place | alters a Shakespeare play, begins epic on Caesar in England, compiles History of Engand | HCT Life of JT | |||
| 1780-1781 | quits tailor job; studies divinity; pursuing artistic ambitions, applies to Benjamin West and other painters, but faces family and financial opposition | HCT Life of JT | |||||
| 1782-1786 | joins household of barrister brother-in-law Mr. Holt, and is articled to attorney John Impey for 3.5 years | HCT Life of JT | |||||
| 1783 | Covent Garden | sale of effects at Mary Thelwall's shop, Covent Garden | Andrews | ||||
| 1784 | Death of Samuel Johnson | ||||||
| mid-late 1780s | London | participation in debating societies, especially Society for Free Debate at Coachmaker's Hall | HCT Life of JT | ||||
| 1786 | London | cancels legal indentures, begins life as a "literary adventurer" | publication of Burns' Poems, Chiefly in Scottish Dialect | HCT Life of JT | |||
| 1788 | London | writes "The Theft," "The Coquette," "The Turtle's Nest," "Rondeau"; delivers "A Speech in Rhyme"? | birth of Lord Byron | Derby MS | "A speech in rhyme ?" at Oxford | ||
| 1787 | London | begins friendship with Dr. Henry Cline and Dr. Hawes (Humane Society) | publishes "Orlando and Almeyda" and Poems on Various Subjects (2 vol); writes farce Inkle and Yarico and submits it to Colman of Haymarket Theatre. | HCT Life of JT, Felsenstein & Scrivener | Poems on Various Subjects in BL (vol.1), Cambridge, Harvard, Newbery(2 vols); "Orlando & Almeyda" at NYU | ||
| 1788-1791 | London | edits Biographical and Imperial Magazine, contributes to Universal Magazine | publishes Biographical and Imperial Magazine | Biographical and Imperial Magazine in BL, Dove Cottage Grasmere | |||
| 1789 | Rutlandshire, London | meets future wife Susannah Vellam on summer visit to Rutlandshire | writes "Epistle to Mercutio" (pub in Peripatetic) | HCT Life of JT, Peripatetic | |||
| Summer 1789 | London | writes "Ode on the Destruction of the Bastille" (pub.in Biographical and Imperial Magazine), two sonnets "To the Nightingale," "Song--The Charm," "The Laurel," "The Dove," "Valclusa's Vale. To Mrs. W--," "Epistle to a Friend," "Ode to a Friend" | HCT Life of JT, Scrivener Poetry & Reform, Derby MS | rpt. Scrivener Poetry & Reform | |||
| 1790 | London | friendship with Horne Tooke, campaigns for Tooke in Westminster election | writes "Evander; or the consolations of Age"; publishes "Sketch of Life of John Howard," "Strictures on the lives and characters of the most eminent lawyers" | Jan: founding of London Corresponding Society; July: church and king riots | HCT Life of JT, Claeys, Derby MS | "Sketch of Life of Howard," LibCongress; "Strictures on ... lawyers" at Oxford | |
| 1791 | #2 Maze Pond, Southwark | attends lectures of Cline, Haighton, Babington and Hunter at Guys & St. Thomas Hospitals; friendship with Astley Cooper and Edwin LeGrand; joins Physical Society and Society of Friends of People | publishes "Ode to Science", "Ode to Philomathian Society," "Ode for the Summer Anniversary of the Sols" | founding of United Irishmen; Nov: Burke's Reflections on Revolution in France; Dec: Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men | HCT Life of JT, Claeys | "Ode to Science" in BL, Oxford ; "Ode to Science" (1978 rpt) in Edinburgh | |
| 1791-1792 | Paine's The Rights of Man | ||||||
| July 27, 1791 | Oakham, Rutlandshire | marries Susannah Vellam (Stella) | Priestley's house and laboratory burned in Birmingham | ||||
| 1792 | April excursion to Canterbury (foundation for Peripatetic) | lectures in Canterbury; joins Society of Friends of the People | writes travel journals (now lost), much of The Peripatetic, review of Smith's sonnets; posts "Vindication of Liberty of Speech"; publishes "The Rock of Modrec; or The Legend of Sir Eltram"; writes opera The Incas and submits it to Harris of Covent Garden | January: founding of LCS, execution of King Louis XVI; May: Royal Proclamation against Sedition; Nov: suppression of Society for Free Debate; birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley | HCT Life of JT, Peripatetic, Claeys, J.Thompson, Felsenstein & Scrivener | The Incas in BL MSS | |
| January 26, 1793 | London | delivers and publishes Lecture on Animal Vitality | Lecture on Animal Vitality at Oxford, BrownU | ||||
| February, 1793 | London | declaration of war with revolutionary France | |||||
| April, 1793 | London | friendship with Holcroft, who advises him to write for theatre | publishes The Peripatetic | Andrews | The Peripatetic in BL, Oxford, LibCongress, Detroit Public Lib | ||
| October 21, 1793 | London | joins London Corresponding Society | HCT Life of JT | ||||
| October-November, 1793 | London | delivers Chaunticlere speech at Capel Court debating society; published in Eaton's Politics for the People | Nov: Edinburgh Convention of LCS; Dec: trial and transportation of Scottish Martyrs | HCT Life of JT | |||
| December, 1793 | London | birth of first child, Frances Maria Thelwall | |||||
| January-May, 1794 | Beaufort Bldgs | dines with radicals including Godwin; hijacks performance of Otway's Venice Preserv'd; deputed to Society for Constitutional Information; is expelled from Guy's Hospital Physical Society; lectures at #3 New Compton St, Soho; rents Beaufort Bldgs. and lives there with family | contributes prologue to Holcroft's Love's Frailties; delivers lecture On Origin of Sensation to Physical Society; publishes lectures On the Moral Tendency of a System of Spies and Informers and Sketches of the History of Prosecutions for Political Opinion, "On the Prostitution of our Public Theatres" | Mar 10: letter to Jack Vellum | Jan: conviction of Scottish martyrs; Feb: first performance of Holcroft's Love's Frailties; May 23: suspension of habeas corpus; May: Godwin's Caleb Williams | Andrews, Claeys, HCT Life of JT | Political Lectures no. 1 in BL, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, BrownU, Dove Cottage Grasmere; letter: PRO (rpt. Davies 2002) |
| May-December, 1794 | imprisoned in Tower (5 mos.) and Newgate | May 13: arrested; May 19: sent to Tower (solitary confinement); Oct 24: sent to Newgate; Dec 1-5: tried, acquitted, released; late Dec: death of mother, Mary Thelwall | writes prison sonnets and odes published in Poems Written in Confinement | Claeys | |||
| 1795-1796 | Beaufort Bldgs | regular lectures, publication, meetings at Beaufort Bldgs. | publishes The Tribune (Mar 1795-Apr 1796) | Claeys | |||
| 1795 | Beaufort Bldgs | Feb 6: begins new twice-weekly lectures at Beaufort Bldgs; Susan miscarries; breaks with Tooke and Godwin | publishes Poems Written in Close Confinement, "A Patriot's Feeling," "The Sheepsheering Song," "John Gilpin's Ghost," "Britain's Glory; or the Blessings of a Good Constitution," "Citizen Thelwall: Fraternity and Unanimity to the Friends of Freedom," The Natural and Constitutional Right of Britons ..., "News from Toulon; or the Men of Gotham's Expedition," Peacrful Discussion and Not Tumultuary Violence the Means ..., "To my Muse Give Attention," The Trial at Large of John Thelwall ..., "A Warning Voice to the Violent ..." | birth of Keats; publication of Godwin's "Considerations on Grenville and Pitt ?" (criticizing Thelwall); publication of Wordsworth's Philanthropist; Paine's Age of Reason; Coleridge's Bristol lectures | DNB, Claeys | "John Gilpin's Ghost" in BL, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, NYU; "Gilpin" 1978 rpt in Edinburgh; Natural & Constitutional Rights in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, LibCongress, Newbery, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Case Western, NYPublic; "Peaceful Discussion and not tumultuary violence" in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, LibCongress; Poems in Confinement in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, LibCongress, YAle, Harvard; Political Lectures vol 1 Pt 1 in BL,Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Newbery; Political Lectures I-II in Union College Schenectady, Harvard, BrownU; "Trial for Treason" in Oxford, NY Albany, Philadelphia Bar Assn, UWash Law, Bowdoin; Tribune in Cambridge, Oxford, Dove Cottage Grasmere; Songs also at Dove Cottage Grasmere | |
| Summer, 1795 | Isle of Wight | withdraws from LCS; retreats to Isle of Wight with family; returns to London leaving pregnant Susan and family on Isle of Wight | writes "A Patriot's Feeling" | HCT Life of JT, Scrivener Poetry & Reform | "Citizen Thelwall: Fraternity & Unanimity to the Friends of Freedom" BL, "Patriot's Feeling" rpt in Poetry & Reform | ||
| September 25, 1795 | Isle of Wight | birth of Algernon Sydney Thelwall | |||||
| October-December, 1795 | addresses meetings at Copenhagen Fields (Oct 25, Nov 12), Marylebone Fields (Dec 7); Dec 18: Two Acts receive Royal Assent and go into force | increases Beaufort lectures to 6 times weekly | Oct 29: opening of Parliament, attack on King's carriage; Dec 18: Two Acts proclaimed | Claeys | LCS/Copenhagen speeches in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, NY, Newbery, Harvard, Yale | ||
| 1796 | Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo di Medici | ||||||
| January-April 1796 | Beaufort Bldgs | delivers lectures on classical history in London, until forced to stop in April; Apr: begins correspondence with Coleridge | Apr: ceases publication of Tribune; publishes Democracy Vindicated (ed. Moyle's "Essay on Roman Government"); publishes The Rights of Nature, publishes Sober Reflections on Burke's Letter | Feb: Burke's "Letter to a Noble Lord"; Mar-May: Coleridge's Watchman & Poems on Various Subjects; | Claeys | Thelwall's preface to Moyle's Democracy Vindicated in BL, "Prospectus of a course of lectures ? in strict conformity" in BL, CAmbridge, Oxford, LibCongress; Rights of Nature in BL,Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh, Duke, Uillinois, Yale, Crerar Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, LibCongress, UPenn, Philadelphia; Sober Reflections in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, Edinbrugh, Yale, Columbia, LibCongress, UCLA, UHouston, UNC Chapel Hill, Philadelphia, Brown, Newbery, Princeton, UTexas Austin, Cornell, Duke; "Strike, but Hear" at Oxford, Detroit Public | |
| May 1796-May 1797 | Norwich, Ashby, Yarmouth, Lynn, Wisbech, Derby, Stockport | classical history lecture tour | May 10: second (only surviving) letter to Coleridge | Claeys | letter: BL MSS (rpt. Scrivener Letters) | ||
| May-August 1796 | Norwich | gives 22 lectures on Classical History in Norwich, well received | writes "Stanzas to Rosa Bella Bianca" | July: death of Burns | Claeys, Poems in Retirement | ||
| August, 1796 | Yarmouth | attempts to lecture met with riots and press-gangs, books destroyed, is forced to defend himself with pistol | publishes Appeal to Popular Opinion in Yarmouth | Claeys | Appeal to Popular Opinion (Yarmouth) at Cambridge, Oxford, Yale | ||
| September-October, 1796 | Lynn, Wisbeach, Sheffield | lectures disrupted by mob violence | publishes Appeal to Popular Opinion and Account of Late Outrages (in London) | Claeys | Appeal to Popular Opinion (London) in BL, LibCongress, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, NYPublic;" Particular account of the late outrages" Cambridge, Oxford | ||
| late 1796-early 1797 | Stockport, Lincolnshire, Rutlandshire | visits with Vellam family; discusses agrarian justice with Owen in Stockport | ends publication of Rights of Nature after part II; Dec: writes "To Stella in the Country" | Dec: failed French invasion of Ireland | Claeys, Appeal to Popular Opinion, Poems in Retirement | ||
| 1797 | Derby, London, Norwich, West Country tour, Nether Stowey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Llyswen | Roe | |||||
| January, 1797 | publishes "To Stella in the country on her birthday 1790" in MM | MM | |||||
| February, 1797 | Derby | writes "The Tartan Pladdie" and "To Stella" | letter to Wimpory | Poems in Retirement | letter: Houghton/Harvard (rpt. DWD Letters) | ||
| March, 1797 | Derby | lectures, family joins him, stays with Strutt family, more disruption of lectures | |||||
| April, 1797 | London | edits Courier for two weeks before being driven out | |||||
| May, 1797 | Derby, Norwich | May 25: birth of John Hampden Thelwall in Derby; late May: returns to Norwich where lectures met by riots | naval mutinies, Paine's Agrarian Justice | ||||
| June-July, 1797 | West Country tour: London, Windsor, Basingstoke, Overton, Salisbury, Wilton, Amesbury, Fonthill, Upton, Froome, Bath, Bristol | keeps travel journals later published as "Pedestrian Excursion" | death of Burke | ||||
| July 17-27, 1797 | Nether Stowey, Somerset | visits with Coleridge and Wordsworth, a "literary and political triumvirate" | July 18: letter to Susan | E.P.Thompson, Roe, JTSP | letter: Pierpont Morgan (rpt. DWD Letters) | ||
| July 27, 1797 | Bridgewater | departs Nether Stowey on birthday | writes "Lines Written at Bridgewater" | Poems in Retirement | |||
| August-September, 1797 | Bristol, Gloucestershire, Cowbridge, Swansea | plan to lecture in Bristol abandoned; searches for place to settle; tries to visit Edward Williams in Cowbridge, but misses him | Aug 7: letter to Mayor of Bristol | sept 10: death of Mary Wollstonecraft | Poems in Retirement, letter: PRO | ||
| October, 1797 | Derby, Dovedale | leases and stocks 35-acre farm in Llyswen, Wales, and moves there with family incl. Jack Vellum (Susan's brother) | writes "The Woodbine," "To the Infant Hampden," "Maria, A Fragment" | Poems in Retirement | |||
| late 1797-late 1800 | Llyswen | publication of Anti-Jacobin | |||||
| 1798 | Llyswen | corresponds with Coleridge, Crompton & others; possibly visits (or is visited by) Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg); is visited by Wimpory, Coleridge and Wordsworth; gets into argument re water rights with neighbour (Roos Davies) | intensive writing: completes 5 books of Hope of Albion; by March is working on "Prefatory Memoir" and Daughter of Adoption (for Phillips); begins Fairy of the Lake; writes "Prologue written for a Company of Strollers" | prosecution of Joseph Johnson & Gilbert Wakefield | "Prefatory Memoir," "Essay on Human Automatonism," Letter to Crompton rpt. Davies 2002. | "Prologue" in Derby MSS, Derby Local Studies | |
| January, 1798 | Llyswen | visited by Wimpory | Jan 16: letter to Hardy; letter to STC via Wimpory | publication of Godwin's Memoir of Wollstonecraft and Wollstonecraft's Maria | Corfield, DWD Letters | ||
| February, 1798 | Llyswen | writes again to STC | United Irish rebellion (til Oct 1798) | DWD Letters | |||
| March 3, 1798 | Llyswen | letter to Crompton | letter: Houghton/Harvard (rpt. DWD Letters) | ||||
| April 2, 1798 | Llyswen | takes neighbour Roos Davies to Brecknock Quarter Sessions for assault | E.P. Thompson, Powys archives | ||||
| May, 1798 | Llyswen | publishes "Phenomena of the Wye" in MM | May 10: letter to Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) inviting him to Llyswen; Mary 24: letter to Hardy | MM, DWD Letters, EPThompson | letter: Nat Lib Wales MSS (rpt. DWD Letters) | ||
| August, 1798 | Llyswen | Coleridge and the Wordsworths visit Llyswen for at least 3-4 days | JTSP | ||||
| October-December, 1798 | Llyswen | Coleridge and Wordsworths go to Germany; death of Wolfe Tone | |||||
| 1799 | Llyswen | year of bitter harvest: mail intercepted, Jack Vellum leaves Llyswen, disastrous harvest, worsening relations with neighbours | writes "Pedestrian Excursion" and "Essay on the Wye"; begins The Daughter of Adoption | "Prefatory Memoir" | |||
| January 26, 1799 | Llyswen | letter to Duke of Portland complaining of interception of his mail | PRO | PRO 30/58/12A | |||
| March, 1799 | Llyswen | birth of Manon Roland Thelwall; Jack Vellum leaves Llyswen | Apr: Wordsworths return from Germany | christening records | |||
| July, 1799 | London | walks to London with chap. 1 of Daughter of Adoption | completes chapter 1 of Daughter of Adoption | Coleridge returns from Germany | "Prefatory Memoir" | ||
| August 1799-November 1801 | Llyswen | publishes Pedestrian Excursion and "Essay on the Wye" in the Monthly Magazine | MM | ||||
| October, 1799 | Llyswen | Crabb Robinson visits Llyswen | Crabb Robinson's correspondence | ||||
| December 28, 1799 | Llyswen | death of Frances Maria Thelwall | Wordsworths move to Dove Cottage | "Prefatory Memoir," MM obit notice | |||
| 1800 | Llyswen, Birmingham, Hereford | Moore's Odes of Anacreon; Wordsworth's "Home at Grasmere" and 1800 Preface; | |||||
| February-September, 1800 | Llyswen, Birmingham, Hereford | June & Sept: rallies with ironworkers at Merthyr Tydfil | writes "Paternal Tears" elegies, "The Harp on the Willow," remainder of Daughter of Adoption and Fairy of the Lake | Poems in Retirement | |||
| June, 1800 | Llyswen, Merthyr Tydfil | rallies with ironworkers at Merthyr Tydfil; Susan goes to Hereford | Poems in Retirement, Coburn STC Notebooks | ||||
| August, 1800 | writes "Effusion X" | Aug 12: letter to Dyer | Poems in Retirement | letter: Pforzheimer NYPL MSS | |||
| autumn 1800 | rallies with ironworkers at Merthyr Tydfil | writes "Effusion IX," completes Daughter of Adoption | Sept 11: letter from Crompton | Poems in Retirement | Letter: Pierpont Morgan | ||
| December, 1800 | Widemarsh St., Hereford | moves to Hereford | researches Hope of Albion | Dec 17: renews correspondence with Coleridge | STC letters | ||
| 1801 | Hereford, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds | begins elocutionary profession; continues correspondence with Coleridge (until spring); appears in Public Characters for 1800-1801 | begins translation of DeLille's "L'Homme des Champs"; publishes Daughter of Adoption (London & Dublin imprints) and Poems in Retirement (Hereford and London imprints) | Jan: Act of Union with Ireland proclaimed; Oct: preliminaries to treaty of Amiens; Nov 27: John Gough reads "An Investigation into Sonorous Bodies"; | Daughter of Adoption (London) in BL, Oxford (rpt. Broadview 2013); Daughter of Adoption (Dublin) at Princeton, Harvard | ||
| February, 1801 | birth of Sara Maria Thelwall | Feb 28: letter to Hardy announcing purchase of house in Hereford, and intention to publish Poems; letter to STC proposing "secret expedition" re Fairy of the Lake | christening records, Dove Cottage letters, STC letters | letter to Hardy: Dove Cottage Grasmere | |||
| August-September, 1801 | Hereford | Aug 12: letter to Dyer requesting antiquarian books & discussing preparation and circulation of Poems | publication of Poems in Retirement, Daughter of Adoption | Sept: death of Wakefield; Southey's Thalaba | DWD Letters | Poems in Retirement (Hereford) in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, UOregon, Yale, LibCongress, Harvard, Cornell, NYPub, Huntington, Miami U Oxford, IndianaU, Ohio State, Dove Cottage Grasmere; Poems in Retirement (Dublin) at Harvard; Daughter of Adoption (London) in BL, Uvirginia, Ucal Berkeley; Fairy of the Lake alone at Duke, LibCongress, Princeton, Yale, UMissouri; Poems in REtirement 2nd ed. at Oxford | |
| November, 1801 | Sheffield | gives first elocutionary lecture | EPThompson | ||||
| 1802 | family in Hereford or Birmingham; JT touring extensively through midlands and north | begins elocutionary lecture tours | Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; Apr: death of Erasmus Darwin | Thelwall Outlines | |||
| December, 1801-March, 1802 | Leeds, Birmingham | elocutionary lectures in Leeds; plans to sell house in Hereford and move family to Birmingham | Dec 20: letter(s) to Strutt about new profession | Mar: Peace of Amiens (until May 1803) | DWD Letters | letter: Birmingham City MSS (rpt. DWD Letters) | |
| May, 1802 | extensive lecture tours through midlands and north of England and Scotland | prints and sells numerous different Selections and Outlines of his elocutionary lectures at the door, and at booksellers, in all the towns where he lectures | Thelwall Outlines | letter: Birmingham City MSS (rpt. DWD Letters) | |||
| February-March, 1802 | Leeds, Beverley, York | lecture tour | publishes Selections and "Black Bowl of Eboracum" in York; letter to MM re reputation and conflict with Belsham | MM, Thelwall Outlines | Selections (York) in BL, LibCongress, Yale, Cornell, UOregon; "Black Bowl of Eboracum" at Oxford, Cornell, | ||
| April-June, 1802 | Barton upon Humber, Howden, Alnwick | lecture tour; in Alnwick by late June | publishes letter to Belsham MM June 26 | MM, Thelwall Outlines | |||
| June-September, 1802 | Wakefield, Sheffield, Ripon, Darlington, Stockton upon Tees, Sunderland, Newcastle, South Shields, North Shields, Knaresborough, Harrogate, Rotherham | lecture tour; in Rotherham by early Sept; visits Dr. Warwick in Rotherham | possibly writes "Draw your Yellow Stockings On" at Dr. Warwick's | Wordsworth visits France & writes political sonnets | Derby MS, Thelwall Outlines | Derby MS, Derby Local Studies; Selections (Wakefield): Dove Cottage Grasmere, BL | |
| September-October, 1802 | Nottingham | lecture tour | Thelwall Outlines | ||||
| December, 1802 | Birmingham, Hereford | gives 14 lectures in Birmingham; birth of Edwin Northumbrian Thelwall | Thelwall Outlines, christening records | ||||
| 1803 | family in Kendal by Nov, JT touring extensively through north | extensive lecture tours through north of England, settles family in Kendal | writes "Ode to Paley," "Ode on Fan of Mrs. G" and probably several other odes and "fan-club" poems | execution of Despard | Derby MS | Derby MS, Derby Local Studies | |
| January, 1803 | Shrewsbury | Thelwall Outlines | |||||
| February, 1803 | Liverpool, Warrington | gives 18 lectures in Liverpool; cultivates connections with Crompton and Roscoe circle | Thelwall Outlines | ||||
| March-May, 1803 | Manchester | gives 2 series of 15-16 lectures in Manchester | writes and delivers "Sawney's Pocket Knife" | letter to Hardy | April: review of Poems in Retirement in Edinburgh Review | Thelwall Outlines | Elocution & Oratory (Manchester) in Edinburgh, LibCongress, Yale |
| June-July, 1803 | Rochdale, Mirfield, Halifax, Brighouse, Huddersfield | June 18-July 7: lectures in Halifax; July 9-18: Brighouse; July 22-Aug 7: Huddersfield; Aug 8 ff: Halifax | writes "Mirfield" & "The Expiring Zephyr" | June 10: letter to Hardy from Rochdale | Halifax Journal, Derby MS | ||
| Summer, 1803 | Halifax | gives 18 lectures | July: abortive Emmet rising in Ireland; Aug: death of Beattie | Thelwall Outlines | |||
| October-November,1803 | Kendal, Lancaster, Keswick, | Oct: Thelwall family settles in Kendal; JT lectures in Kendal and meets Gough; early-mid Nov: JT lectures in Lancaster; late Nov: JT visits Wordsworth in Grasmere & Coleridge & Southey in Keswick | Nov 15: writes letter to Gough via MM re theories of voice; publishes letter/essay on Burke's theory of language in MM | Nov: letters to Coleridge | Thelwall Outlines, Lancaster newspaper, STC letters, Kendal archives, MM | ||
| November-December, 1803 | Penrith, Carlisle, Longtown, Langholme, Hawick, Selkirk, Edinburgh | Nov 29: walks with Hazlitt to Penrith; Nov 30: onward through Carlisle; by Dec 8 in Edinburgh | probably writes "Sonnet in the Style of Ossian" on road between Hawick and Selkirk | Nov 29: letter to Susan Thelwall | Derby MS, DWD Letters | Letter: Pierpont Morgan (rpt. DWD Letters) | |
| December, 1803 | Edinburgh | lecture series disrupted (by Jeffrey) and ends after first lecture | Dec 13: publishes A Letter to Francis Jeffray | A Letter to Francis Jeffray in BL, Oxford, Edinburgh, Yale, LibCongress, IndianaU, Louisiana State, UChicago, Uillinois; Mr. Thelwall's Reply ... in BL, Oxford, Edinburgh, LibCongress, Louisiana State, Chicago, Huntington, Uillinois, Yale; "Observations on Mr. Thelwall's letter ..." Edinburgh |