NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Alsager, Thomas Massa, 1789-1846 NRA: Alsager, Thomas Massa (1779-1846) Assistant Manager of the Times DNB: Alsager, Thomas Massa (1779-1846), financial journalist and businessman LBT ID: ThAlsag1846 VIAF ID: 16004840 LOC ID: n00076787 | B/BAP: 1779-09-27 DIED: 1846-11-15 |
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Journalist and music critic for the Times; he was the friend of
Leigh Hunt and Thomas Barnes; John Keats was reading Alsager's copy of Chapman's poems when
he wrote the famous sonnet. | |
REFERENCES TO Thomas Massa Alsager: William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 3 August 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1:
¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 9 August 1815 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 1 Mary Lamb to Sarah Hutchinson, 20 August 1815 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 9 Charles Lamb to Barron Field, 31 August 1817 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Charles and James Ollier, 18 June 1818 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 3 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [26 April 1819] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [7 June 1819] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 14 Charles Lamb to Jane Payne Collier, 2 November 1824 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to Leigh Hunt, [January? 1825] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 6 Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, 12 November 1830 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1:
¶ 4 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. X” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (December 1847) 415-24 Found 1:
¶ 20 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal
Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their
Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt I Found 1:
¶ 1 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) |