Abbreviations

Abbreviations

Most secondary source contractions (e.g., Warter II 234, 234n) are derived from the 'Bibliography with Key Abbreviations' section in Hill Shine and Helen Chadwick Shine, The Quarterly Review Under Gifford (1949), 95-103, to which the user of this site is referred.
Southey's definitive MS. list of his QR articles refers to Kenneth Curry and Robert Dedmon, 'Southey's Contributions to the Quarterly Review,' Wordsworth Circle vi (1975): 261-72.
Young's definitive MS. list of his QR articles refers to [Hudson Gurney,] Memoir of the Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S. (1831): 56-60.
[1] [number in left margin]
Each article is assigned a serial number (from 1-733). It appears in bold at the far left of each entry in the index pages. These serial numbers were first assigned in Shine, The Quarterly Review Under Gifford (1949)
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Serial numbers in the evidence section are indicated by this symbol
ER #326 Serial numbers and identifications of authorship for Edinburgh Review articles and those of other periodicals (with the exception of the Quarterly Review 1809-24) derive from The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824–1900, 4 vols, ed. by Walter E. Houghton (1966–87)
#85WI Serial numbers and (with a few exceptions) identifications of authorship for Quarterly Review articles published after 1824 derive from The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824–1900, vol. I, ed. by Walter E. Houghton (1966)
Bodleian Library MS.
Bodleian Library, Oxford University (various Department of Western Manuscripts)
BL MS.
British Library, London (various Additional Manuscripts)
Book Loans
Two bond notebooks preserved in the Murray Archives record John Murray II's loans of books to prospective contributors
Cash Book
John Murray II's cash accounts preserved in the Murray Archives
Clements Library MS. lists
John Wilson Croker's holograph lists of Quarterly Review articles preserved at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Devon MS.
Papers of Edward Copleston deposited with the Devon Public Record Office, Devon (MSS. 1149M)
DNB
Dictionary of National Biography
Fetter Frank Whitson Fetter, 'Part I: The Economic Articles in the Quarterly Review and Their Authors, 1809-52,' Journal of Political Economy (1958), lxvi (1): 47-64; Part II, JPE lxvi (2): 154-170.
Harewood MS.
Canning Papers owned by the Earl of Harewood and deposited with the Leeds District Archives, Sheepscar Branch, Leeds
JM, JM II
John Murray II (1778-1843), founding publisher
JM II's marked QR
In the Murray Archives is a complete file of the Quarterly Review, some volumes of which have been annotated by JM II
JM III
John Murray III (1808-92) compiler of a so-called Register identifying contributors to the Quarterly Review
JM III's Register
Called the Murray Register in Shine and the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (see entry above)
Murray MS. and Murray Archives
Archives of John Murray (Publishers), 50 Albemarle Street, London
NLS MS.
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh (Sir Walter Scott Papers)
Ramos Charles Ramos, ed. The Letters of Robert Southey to John May 1797 to 1838 (1976)
Shine
Hill Shine and Helen Chadwick Shine, The Quarterly Review Under Gifford (1949), an earlier effort to identify contributors to the Quarterly Review
VPR 24 Jonathan Cutmore, 'The Quarterly Review under Gifford: Some New Attributions,' Victorian Periodicals Review (1991) xxiv (3): 137-142.
VPR 27 Cutmore, 'The Early Quarterly Review 1809-24: New Attributions and Sources,' VPR xxvii (4): 308-18.
VPR 28 Cutmore, 'The Early Quarterly Review: New Attributions of Authorship,' VPR xxviii (4): 305-25.
WG
William Gifford (1756-1826), founding editor