English politician and man of letters, with his friend Richard Steele he edited The Spectator (1711-12). He was the author of the tragedy Cato (1713).

REFERENCES TO Joseph Addison:

William Godwin to Thomas Holcroft, 5 August 1788 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [10 January 1797] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, [29 October 1798] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Sydney Owenson to Alicia Le Fanu?, 12 January 1803 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Sydney Owenson to Thomas Longman, 10 December 1809 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

Sir Jonah Barrington to Lady Morgan, 5 July [1809] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)

John Murray to Lord Byron, 25 September 1813 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 January 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 27 November 1816 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Sir James Mackintosh to Samuel Rogers, 9 December 1824 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)