Thomas Hill

(1760-1840)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hill, Thomas, 1760-1840 NRA: Hill Thomas (1760-1840) Bibliophile Author and Journalist DNB: Hill, Thomas (1760-1840), book-collector LBT ID: ThHill1840 VIAF ID: 24163783 LOC ID: no91026085	B/BAP: 1760-05 DIED: 1840-12-20
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English book-collector who entertained members of Leigh Hunt's circle at his cottage at Sydenham in Kent. He was a proprietor of the Monthly Mirror and later a writer for the Morning Chronicle. Charles Lamb described him as “the wettest of dry salters.”
REFERENCES TO Thomas Hill: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 1 December 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 14 May 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to John Bates Dibdin, [30 June 1826] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Dubois. Found 1: ¶ 1 Frederick Mansell Reynolds to William Jerdan, [1829 c.?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 1 Horace Smith to Cyrus Redding, 29 December 1840 in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 4 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. III” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (May 1847) 38-48 Found 12: ¶ 24 ¶ 30 ¶ 32 ¶ 36 ¶ 41 ¶ 42 ¶ 43 ¶ 45 ¶ 49 ¶ 56 ¶ 60 ¶ 61 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. IV” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (June 1847) 137-43 Found 12: ¶ 1 ¶ ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ 27 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. V” in New Monthly Magazine 80 (July 1847) 290-97 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 16 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (September 1847) 83-87 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. VIII” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (October 1847) 227-40 Found 1: ¶ 3 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XI” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (January 1848) 14-20 Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XI. 1804-1805 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 13: Finance 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) Thomas Campbell VI Found 1: ¶ 1 Horace & James Smith I Found 1: ¶ 18 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 7: ¶ 23 ¶ 25 ¶ 26 ¶ 27 ¶ 31 ¶ 33 ¶ 34 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 3 Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter 5 Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter 13 Found 1: ¶ 10 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 9 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1826 Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 1 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) WILLIAM STEWART ROSE Found 1: ¶ 2