22. Cowper's snuff-box (see § 117). Charles A. Godfrey, Esq., 41, Devonshire Place, Portland Place, W.

23. A chest of drawers. D. A. Fox, Esq., Birkenhead.

24. Portrait of Cowper's father. Rev. N. Madan Pratt, Windrush Vicarage, Burford.

25. Sofa that was Cowper's.

Henry Hives, Esq., Wharncliffe

Lodge, Crescent Road, Crouch End, N.

26. Original Letters of Cowper.

A. A number of letters to Unwin and Rose are in the
British Museum, Addit. MSS. 24154, 21556.

B. Alfred Morrison, Esq., has one to General Cowper,
April 14, 1788.

C. G. Milner Gibson Cullum, Esq., has one to Hayley,
November 17, 1793; W. W. Manning, Esq., Redcliffe
Gardens, South Kensington, one to Rose.

D. In the Library at Bedford is one to Bull, January 7,
1786.

E. In the Forster Library, South Kensington Museum, are three letters (1) To Johnson, the Bookseller, March 5, 1786. (2) To Rose, February 19, 1789 (in Southey this letter is dreadfully mutilated). (3) To Unwin, without address or date. This is the letter treating of Churchill's great poetic merits.

F. Miss Bull, of 12, Montrell Road, Streatham Hill, S.W., has some letters.

G. C. Willmore, Esq., Queenwood College, Hants, has several.

NOTE.

Since making out the above list the author has received copies of a large number of other letters of Cowper (many of them unpublished). He thanks all who have sent them, and will make the list complete in his collection of the poet's letters, now in hand.

APPENDIX C.

SUMMARY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH COWPER, HIS FRIENDS AND HIS WORKS, FROM 1798 TO THE PRESENT YEAR (1892).

1798, June 9. Samuel Teedon was buried at Olney. A manuscript Life of Teedon is in existence, written in 1848 by the eccentric William Soul, of Olney. It is in the possession of Henry Gough, Esq., of Red Hill.

1800. The Rev. John Newton visited Southampton, and while there, commenced to write a Life of his late friend the poet. One hindrance or another, however, prevented him from continuing it. All that remains is the fragment of sixteen pages written at Southampton.

1801. The Earl of Dartmouth died. His descendant, the late William Walter Legge, was the fifth Earl. Cowper's Translations from Madame de la Mothe Guyon published. 1802, Aug. 12. Lady Austen died at Paris. She had for some years been married to a French gentleman, M. de Tardif. Her sister Martha (wife of the Rev. Thomas Jones, of Clifton) was buried at Olney on July 2, 1795. 1803. Hayley's Life first appeared in two volumes. The later editions (1806, 1809, 1812) were in four volumes, and contained supplementary letters.

1803. Cowper, illustrated by a series of Views, in, or near, the Park of Weston Underwood, Bucks. Accompanied with copious Descriptions, and a Sketch of the Poet's Life. London, 1803, 4, pp. 51. The author of this popular work, which saw at least ten editions (1803-1810), was James S. Storer. He and John Greig, his partner, were the engravers of the plates, thirteen in number.

The Rural Walks of Cowper, first published in 1822, was a republication of this work, with new and different plates. This book was published in three sizes, 8o, 12o, 18°. James Sargent Storer and his son, Henry Sargent Storer, the authors of this work, were eminent engravers,

and their works are almost countless.

Both were con

nected with Olney. The son died in 1837, and the father in 1854

Mr. Robert Storer, brother of James Storer, the engraver, and father of Mr. W. P. Storer, the author's first schoolmaster, was one of the persons who remembered Cowper. Robert Storer was a Bluecoat boy, and he used to tell how Cowper, who met him in the street one day, patted his head, told him of famous men Christchurch had produced, and prophesied that if he too were diligent a useful career lay before him.

1804. Samuel Rose died, after a comparatively short career of professional eminence. He was in his 38th year.

1806. Rev. Walter Bagot died, aged 75.

1807. Lady Hesketh died.

Dec. 21. Rev. John Newton died in his 83rd year. He was buried at St. Mary Woolnoth's, of which he had been Rector 28 years.

1808. The Unfinished Commentary of Milton was published by Hayley for the benefit of the second son of Mr. Rose, the godchild of Cowper. Some designs in outline were furnished for it by Flaxman.

1816. The Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper published the narrative written by himself at Huntingdon. Also " Adelphi," a sketch of the life and character of his brother John.

1819. Died, without issue, Sir John Throckmorton (fifth Baronet). He was succeeded by his brother George.

1821. Rev. Thomas Scott died at Aston Sandford (Bucks), where he had been Rector 21 years.

1823. "Private Correspondence of William Cowper, Esq., with several of his most intimate friends. Now first published from the originals in the possession of his kinsman, John Johnson, LL.D., Rector of Yaxham with Welborne in Norfolk." In two volumes.

1824. Mrs. Joseph Hill died.

She had survived her husband, who

also lived to an advanced age.

1825, Oct. 22.

On this day died, unmarried, Theodora Jane Cowper. (The poet's first love.)

This year was published "Poems, the Early Productions of William Cowper; now first published from the originals, in the possession of James Croft, with anecdotes of the Poet, collected from letters of Lady Hesketh, written during her residence at Olney. London, 1825." These were the poems preserved by Theodora.

1826, July 27. Death of Sir George Courtenay Throckmorton, aged 72.

1828, Feb. 24. Burial of Eusebius Killingworth (whose age was 77) at Olney. An old gentleman of Olney spoke to me of him as follows: "Old Daddy Worth, as we used to call him. His was my first school, and we used to pay sixpence a week. He was a small, spare man, whose lean legs looked like sticks in their worsted stockings and knee breeches. He always appeared in a woollen cap, something after the fashion of that worn by Cowper. He was fond of music, and among the things sold when he died was a harpsichord." The Rev. Dr. Johnson (Cowper's Johnny) kindly allowed Mr. Killingworth a small pension, of which the Rev. Henry Gauntlett, of Olney, was the weekly almoner.

Notes concerning the family extracted from the Olney Parish Registers :

Elizabeth Killingworth (Mammy) was buried at Olney on Dec. 5, 1807.

Eusebius Killingworth and Mary Taylor (Polly) were married at Olney on April 18, 1808.

Mary Killingworth was buried at Olney on Nov. 19, 1817.

1833. Rev. Dr. Johnson (Johnny of Norfolk) died. He and his sister, Mrs. Hewitt, were interred in the same vault at Yaxham, near Dereham.

Taylor's Cowper published.

1835, Nov. 9. Death of Mrs. Powley (née Susanna Unwin). There was only one letter of Cowper's remaining among her papers that dated June 25 (1784). Mrs. Powley was in her 89th year. She had a devotion to a Mr. Kilvington (after the death of her husband in Dec. 23, 1806) resembling her mother's to Cowper.