Henry Crabb Robinson Diaries, Travel Journals and Reminiscences
1790-1867

From the Library of Dr. Williams's Trust, London, England

11 reels 35mm silver microfilm, ISBN 1 897955 19 7

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This publication contains 29 volumes of diaries covering the period 1811-1867; 32 volumes of travel journals covering the period 1801-1866; 4 volumes of reminiscences covering the period 1790-1843 and includes 3 volumes of translations of Crabb Robinson's shorthand notes. It documents in detail Henry Crabb Robinson's extraordinarily wide-ranging cultural interests and provides a unique contemporary insight into the lives and works of many of Europe's most famous literary, scientific, and political figures during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Henry Crabb Robinson's Diaries, Travel Journals, and Reminiscences contain references to hundreds of famous persons he met with, or corresponded with, in the course of his long life, drawn from the worlds of art, literature, politics, and the media of his day. The following are some of these, and there are many others, particularly writers, upon whom he comments:

Thomas AMYOT; Thomas ARNOLD; Walter BAGEHOT; Anna Laetitia BARBAULD; William BLAKE; Marguerite, Countess of BLESSINGTON; Henry Peter, Baron BROUGHAM; Elizabeth Barrett BROWNING; Carl C.J. Baron von BUNSEN; Angela BURDETT-COUTTS; Sarah Harriet BURNEY; Anne Isabella, Lady BYRON; Thomas CARLYLE; Thomas CLARKSON; Arthur Hugh CLOUGH; Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE; John Payne COLLIER; Augustus de MORGAN; Thomas de QUINCEY; George DYER; Frederick William FABER; Eliza FENWICK; John FLAXMAN; John FORSTER; William GOODWIN; Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE; Julius Charles HARE; Mary HAYS; William HAZLITT; Johann Gottfriend HERDER; Edward IRVING; Anna Brownell JAMESON; John KENYON; Karl Ludwig von KNEBEL; Charles and Mary LAMB; Walter Savage LANDOR; George MacDONALD; Harriet MARTINEAU; John James MASQUERIER; Thomas MOORE; Francis William NEWMAN; Amelia OPIE; Elizabeth Jesser REID; Frederick William ROBERTSON; Samuel ROGERS; J.C. Friedrich von SCHILLER; August Wilhelm SCHLEGEL; Mary Wollstonecraft SHELLEY; Percy Byshhe SHELLEY; Robert SOUTHEY; Mme. de STAEL; George Edmund STREET; Thomas Noon TALFOURD; Ludwig von TIECK; Gilbert WAKEFIELD; Christoph Martin WIELAND; Helen Maria WILLIAMS; Dorothy WORDSWORTH; William WORDSWORTH.

Henry Crabb Robinson Travel Journal extract:

".... Having myself dined, I left my companions at the inn and called on Mr. De Quincey, my Temple Hall acquaintance. He has been very much an invalid, and his appearance bespoke of his health. He was very dirty and even squalid. I had read a bad account of him from Wordsworth, whom he has not seen for a long time. It appears that he has taken to opium, and, like Coleridge, seriously injured his health. I understand, too, though Wordsworth was reserved on the subject, he has entangled himself in an unfortunate acquaintance with a woman. He seemed embarrassed when he saw me, and did not ask me to walk upstairs, but said he should have bed for me tomorrow. He apologised for not having written on account of bad spirits, and said he was unfit to see company. On this I intimated that I should be sorry to break on his retirement. However, afterwards he became better, and on my mentioning to Wordsworth and the ladies what I had seen, all wished me, for his sake, to accept his offer to walk out with me as beneficial to himself. Mr. De Quincey returned with me to the inn .... and he accompanied us a way on our road to Ambleside .... We reached Wordsworth's near seven o'clock."

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