English novelist, wit, and friend of the Prince of Wales; he edited the John Bull (1820) and appears as the Lucian Gay of Disraeli's Conigsby and as Mr. Wagg in Vanity Fair.

REFERENCES TO Theodore Edward Hook:

Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 26 February 1808 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

John Gibson Lockhart to Jonathan Christie, [1821] in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Charles Lamb, [March? 1825] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Sir Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, [April? 1825] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Frederick Mansell Reynolds to William Jerdan, [1829 c.?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53)

John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 17 February 1841 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 29 August 1841 in 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854)

John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 28 March 1843 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891)