Robinson-Wordsworth Family Correspondence: Calendar

Calendar of the Henry Crabb Robinson Correspondence wth members of the Wordsworth Family, 1812-1859, Wordsworth Trust and Museum, Grasmere

1. William Wordsworth to Dorothy Wordsworth, May 1812 (copied by Crabb Robinson).

2. Note by Henry Crabb Robinson, dated June 1833, affixed to margin of MS by Dorothy Wordsworth.

3.  Note by Henry Crabb Robinson, dated June 1833, concerning a Mr. Graham.

4.  Note by Henry Crabb Robinson, dated June 1833, concerning the Smiths.

5. Henry Crabb Robinson, Marseilles, to Mary Wordsworth, Brinsop Court, near Hereford, 6 April 1837.

6. Henry Crabb Robinson’s itinerary of his tour of Italy with Wordsworth, September 1837. 

7.  Henry Crabb Robinson, Dover Street, [London, Edward Moxon’s office], to Mary Wordsworth, [no address], 2 September 1837.

8. Henry Crabb Robinson, 2 Plowden Building, London, to Dora Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 20 October 1837.

9. Henry Crabb Robinson, [Rydal Mount], to Henry Thomas Lutwidge and Mrs Lutwidge, [no address], 5 January 1843.

10.Henry Crabb Robinson, Athenaeum, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 12 November 1846.

11. Henry Crabb Robinson, [30] Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [London], 22 December 1846.

12. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, to William Wordsworth, Jr., [London], 28 December 1846.   

13. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to William Wordsworth, Jr., [London], 1 January 1847.

14. Henry Crabb Robinson, Kendal, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 31 January 1847.

15. Henry Crabb Robinson, [30] Russell Square, London, to Dora Quillinan, Rydal Mount, 20 May 1847.

16. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 5 June 1848.

17. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 13 July [18]48.

18. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 22 July 1848.

19. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bury St. Edmunds, to Edward Quillinan, [near Rydal Mount], 10 August [18]48.

20. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 16 December [18]48.

21. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Miss Denman, [no address], 20 February [1849?]. 

22. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bury St Edmunds, to Mary Wordsworth, [London], 22 March [18]49.

23. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 19 May [18]49.

24. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bury St Edmunds, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 12 July 1849.

25. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 3 December [18]49.

26. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to William Wordsworth, Jr., [no address], 3 May 1850.

27. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 7 May 1850.

28. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bury St. Edmunds, to John Miller, Bockleton, 4 July 1850.

29. Henry Crabb Robinson, Rydal Mount, to Mrs Thomas Arnold, [Grasmere], 21 August [18]50.

30. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Christopher Wordsworth, Jr., [no address], 18 October [18]50.

32. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to the Rev. John Miller, Bockleton, 1 December 18[5]0.

33. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bury St Edmunds, to the Rev. G. Armstrong, 2 February [1851].

34. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 13 September [18]51.  

35. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 23 December 1851.

36. Henry Crabb Robinson, Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 27 December [1851].

37. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 9 February [18]52.

38. Henry Crabb Robinson, Edinburgh, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 2 September 1852.

39. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to the Rev. John Miller, 4 October 1852.

40. HHenry Crabb Robinson, 10 Western Cottages, Brighton, to the Rev. John Miller, Bockleton, 24 November 1852.

41. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to the Rev. John Miller, [Bockleton], 14 January 1853.

42.  Henry Crabb Robinson, at the Athenaeum, London, to the Rev. John Miller, [Bockleton], 1 April 1853.

43. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to the Derwent Coleridge, 19 April 1853.

44. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to the Rev. John Miller, Bockleton, 4 June [1853].

45. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 25 June [1853].

46. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to the Rev. John Miller, Bockleton, near Tenbury, Worcestershire, 10 [and 17] October 1853.

47. Henry Crabb Robinson, [London], to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], [5 November 1853].

48. Catherine Clarkson, [Playford], to Henry Crabb Robinson [London], undated (attached to previous letter, 5 November 1853).

49. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 26 February [1854].

50. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, Ambleside, 22 December 1854.  

51. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount,] Ambleside, 9 January [18]55. 

52. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 29 January [18]55.

53. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Thomas Carter, Rydal Mount, 17 February 1855.

54. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 17 February 1855 [attached to preceding letter.]

55. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bury St Edmunds, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 17 September 1855.

56. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 17 November 1855.

57. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 1 February 1856.

58. Henry Crabb Robinson, Athenaeum, London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 4 April 1856.

59. Henry Crabb Robinson, Athenaeum, London, to the Rev. John Miller, [Bockleton], undated [18 October 1856].

60. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to [Mary Wordsworth], [Rydal Mount], 20 October 1856. 

61. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to the Rev. John Miller, [Bockleton], 22 November 1856.

62. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, W.C., London, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 20 April 1857.

63. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bury St. Edmunds, to the Rev. John Miller, [Bockleton], 3 September 1857.

64. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bury St Edmunds, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 4 September 1857.

65. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to the Rev. John Miller, [Bockleton], 12 January 1858.

66. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, W.C., London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 5 March [18]58].  

67. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, W.C., London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 3 August [1858].

68. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bury St Edmunds, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 21 August 1858.

69. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, W.C., London, to Mary Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, 9 December 1858.

70. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, W.C., London, to William Wordsworth, Jr., [no address], 1 February 1859.

71.  Henry Crabb Robinson, [no address], to unnamed correspondent, undated.

72. Extracts from Henry Crabb Robinson’s will concerning the heirs of Wordsworth (in the hand of William Wordsworth, Jr.).

73. Printed documents relating to the presentation of the Wordsworth Monument in Westminster Abbey c. 1853-54, of which HCR served as a member of the Committee and of the special sub-committee, working along side Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. 

Related Letters from Other Archives

74. Henry Crabb Robinson, Dover Street, [London, Edward Moxon’s office], to Mary Wordsworth, [no address], 2 September 1837.

75. Henry Crabb Robinson, Bowness, to Elizabeth Reid, [no address], 25 July 1842.

76. Henry Crabb Robinson, Rydal Mount, to Henry Taylor, 24 December 1847. 

77. Henry Crabb Robinson, Archaeological Institute, Lincoln, to Elizabeth Reid, [no address], [26 July 1848].

78. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, to Henry Taylor, 1 February 1849.

77. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, to Revd Dr Christopher Wordsworth, [Lambeth Palace], 22 April 1851.

78. Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, to Angelina Georgina Burdett-Cootts, Torquay, Devon, 11 February 1859.

Integrated Calendar of the Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson and Mary Wordsworth, 1837-1858, Dr. Williams's Library and the Wordsworth Trust and Museum

The Calendar below (129 letters, 46 by Mary Wordsworth and 83 by Crabb Robinson) integrates the letters of HCR to MW belonging to the Wordsworth Museum (noted below as WWL), as well as the letters that passed between HCR and MW belonging to the HCR Archive, Dr Williams’s Library, London. MW’s letters to HCR were published initially by Edith Morley in The Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson with The Wordsworth Circle, 1808-1866 (2 vols, Oxford, 1927). They can also be found in The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, ed. Ernest de Selincourt, Mary Moorman, and Alan Hill (8 vols, Oxford, rev. ed., 1967-1993).

1.     MW to HCR, 3 July 1833.

2.     MW to HCR, 23 November 1833.

3.     MW to HCR, [arrived on 22] November 1835.

4.     HCR to MW, 22 November 1835.

5.     HCR to MW, 8 March 1836.

6.     W.W. to HCR, 16 March 1836 (note attached to HCR by MW).

7.     MW to HCR, 4 July 1836.

8.     MW to HCR, 28 September 1836.

9.     HCR to MW, 27 October 1836.

10.  MW to HCR, 1 November 1836.

11.  MW to HCR, 19 December  1836.

12.  HCR to MW, Brinsop Court, near Hereford, Angleterre, April 6 1837. [WLL, Wordsworth, W and D/7/515.1]

13.  MW to HCR, August 1837.

14.  HCR, Dover Street, [London, Edward Moxon’s office], to MW, [no address], 2 September 1837. [WLL, Wordsworth, W and D/7/535.1]

15.  MW to HCR, February 1838 (writing for W. W.).

16.  HCR to MW, 12 March 1838.

17.  MW to HCR, 16 March 1838.

18.  MW to HCR, 19 August 1838.

19.  MW to HCR, 19 June 1840.

20.  MW to HCR, 9 May 1841.

21.  MW to HCR, 22 May [1841].

22.  HCR to MW, 24 May 1841.

23.  MW to HCR, 31 May 1841.

24.  MW to HCR, 28 June [1841].

25.  MW to HCR, [14 October 1841].

26.  HCR to MW, [29 October] 1841.

27.  HCR to MW, 21 February 1842.

28.  HCR to MW, 7 March 1842.

29.  HCR to MW, 15 March 1842.

30.  HCR to MW, 22 April 1842.

31.  HCR to MW, 6 August 1842.

32.  HCR to MW, 27 August 1842.

33.  HCR to MW, 19 October 1842.

34.  HCR to W.W. and MW, 17 January 1843.

35.  HCR to MW, 16 February 1843.

36.  HCR to MW, 10 April 1843.

37.  HCR to MW, 19 July 1843.

38.  HCR to MW, 8 September 1843.

39.  HCR to W.W. and MW, 15 September 1843.

40.  HCR to MW, 24 October 1843.

41.  HCR to MW, 6 November [1843].

42.  HCR to MW, 4 December 1843.

43.  HCR to MW, 16 December 1843.

44.  HCR to MW, 27 January 1844.

45.  MW to HCR, 5 February [1844].

46.  MW to HCR, 6 February [1844].

47.  HCR to MW, 11 February 1844.

48.  MW to HCR, 7 April [18]44.

49.  MW to HCR, 9 July [1844].

50.  HCR to MW, 18 September 1844.

51.  MW to HCR, 23 September [1844].

52.  MW to HCR, 4 November [1844].

53.  HCR to MW, 30 November 1844.

54.  HCR to MW, 27 November 1845.

55.  HCR to MW, 11 February 1845.

56.  W.W. and MW to HCR, 21 June [1845].

57.  MW to HCR, [7 August 1845].

58.  HCR to MW, 9 September 1845.

59.  MW to HCR [16 September 1845].

60.  MW to HCR, 7 November [1845].

61.  HCR to MW, 11 November 1845.

62.  HCR to MW, 8 December 1845.

63.  MW to HCR, [8] December [1845].

64.  MW to HCR [9 December 1845].

65.  HCR to MW, 11 December 1845.

66.  HCR to MW, 16 January 1846.

67.  HCR to MW, 20 January 1846.

68.  HCR to MW, 24 February 1846.

69.  HCR to MW, 5 May 1846.

70.  HCR to MW, 2 June 1846.

71.  HCR to MW, 11 June 1846.

72.  HCR to MW, 16 June 1846.

73.  HCR, Athenaeum, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 12 November 1846. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/3].

74.  HCR to MW, 19 December 1846.

75.  HCR, [30] Russell Square, London, to MW, [London], 22 December 1846.

76.  HCR, Kendal, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 31 January 1847. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/7].

77.  HCR to MW, 4 June 1847.

78.  HCR to MW, 15 January 1848.

79.  HCR to MW, 7 March 1848.

80.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 5 June 1848. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/9].

81.  MW to HCR, 7 June 1848.

82.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 13 July [18]48.  [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/10].

83.  MW to HCR, 22 July [1848].

84.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 22 July 1848. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/11].

85.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 16 December [18]48. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/13].

86.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 22 February [18]49. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/14].

87.  MW to HCR [24 February 1849].

88.  HCR, Bury St Edmunds, to MW, [not at Rydal Mount], 22 March [18]49. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/15].

89.  MW to HCR, 28 March [1849].

90.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 19 May [18]49. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/16].

91.  HCR, Bury St Edmunds, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 12 July 1849. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/17].

92.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 3 December [18]49. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/18].

93.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 7 May 1850. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/20].

94.  MW to HCR, 30 December 1850.

95.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 13 September [18]51.  [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/22].

96.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 23 December 1851. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/23].

97.  HCR, Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 27 December [1851]. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/24].

98.  HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 9 February [18]52.  [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/25].

99.  HCR, Edinburgh, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 2 September 1852. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/26]

100. MW to HCR, 8 January [18]53.

101. HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 25 June [1853?]. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/27].

102. HCR, [London], to MW, [Rydal Mount], [5 November 1853]. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/28].

103. HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 26 February [1854].  [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/29].

104. MW to HCR, [23 May 1854].

105.    MW to HCR [July 1854].

106. HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, Ambleside, 22 December 1854.  [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/30].

107. MW to HCR, 26 December [1854].

108. HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount,] Ambleside, 9 January [18]55.  [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/31].

109. HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 29 January [18]55.  [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/32].

110. HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 17 February 1855 (attached to a letter to Thomas Carter). [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/33].

111. MW to HCR, 9 August [1855].

112. HCR, Bury St Edmunds, to Mary Wordsworth, [Rydal Mount], 17 September 1855. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/34].

113. HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 17 November 1855. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/35].

114. HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 1 February 1856. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/36].

115. MW to HCR (by Mr Carter) [14 February 1856].

116. MW and W. W. Jr. to HCR, 17 February 1856.

117. HCR, Athenaeum, London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 4 April 1856. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/37].

118. MW (by J. Carter) to HCR [27 May 1856].

119. MW (by Mrs Kennedy) to HCR, 28 August 1856.

120. HCR, 30 Russell Square, London, to [MW], [Rydal Mount], 20 October 1856. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/38].

121. MW (by Mrs M. Hutchinson) to HCR, 4 November [1856].

122. MW (by J. Carter) to HCR [2 March 1857].

123. HCR, 30 Russell Square, W.C., London, to MW, [Rydal Mount], 20 April 1857. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/39].

124. HCR, Bury St Edmunds, to MW, Rydal Mount, 4 September 1857. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/40].

125. MW (by Mr Carter) to HCR, 5 October 1857.

126. HCR, 30 Russell Square, W.C., London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 5 March [18]58].  [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/41].

127. HCR, 30 Russell Square, W.C., London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 3 August [1858].  [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/42].

128. HCR, Bury St Edmunds, to Mw, [Rydal Mount], 21 August 1858. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/43].

129. HCR, 30 Russell Square, W.C., London, to MW, Rydal Mount, 9 December 1858. [WLL, Robinson, Henry Crabb/44].