Scottish poet and Tory essayist, the chief writer for the “Noctes Ambrosianae” in Blackwood's Magazine and professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh University (1820).

REFERENCES TO John Wilson [Christopher North]:

Robert Southey to John Rickman, 21 January 1810 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 17 January 1812 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Murray, 31 August 1814 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 9 September 1815 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, 29 November 1815 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

John Gibson Lockhart to [John Williams?], 6 January 1816 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 7 December 1816 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

John Murray to Lord Byron, 22 September 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 24 September 1818 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

William Blackwood to John Murray, 2 October 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

John Murray to William Blackwood, 27 October 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 10 December 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 30 March 1820 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 8 May 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 20 July 1820 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [1] October 1820 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 24 September 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

William Blackwood to Cyrus Redding, [22 March 1823] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858)

Robert Southey to Samuel Rogers, 21 September 1823 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

George Canning to Walter Scott, 24 July 1825 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Walter Scott to John Murray, 17 November 1825 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

Alaric Alexander Watts to Frances Hogson, [1826?] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, [May 1827] in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

Sir Walter Scott to Horace Smith, 1 February 1828 in “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (February 1848) 250-57

John Gibson Lockhart to Thomas De Quincey, [December? 1828] in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 4 November 1828 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

David Macbeth Moir to Cyrus Redding, 5 July [1831] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858)

Thomas Moore to John Murray, 25 October 1831 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)

John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 26 August 1839 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

John Gibson Lockhart to Will Laidlaw, 30 April 1842 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 11 April 1851 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 15 April 1851 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson, 9 May 1851 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

John Gibson Lockhart to Charlotte Lockhart Hope, 11 April 1854 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

George David Boyle to Andrew Lang, [1895 c.] in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

Robert William Hay to John Murray III, 7 July 1856 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)