THOMAS COOPER.

PRESS REPORTS, LITERARY REVIEWS, ETC.

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•        Opinions of the Press: on the PURGATORY OF SUICIDES.  These 'opinions' were annexed to Cooper's "Baron's Yule Feast" of 1846.  If there were any, the reviewers' weightier comments are excluded leaving a collection of vague and nebulous eulogies:― Britannia, Aug. 30. 1845;  Sentinel, Oct. 12. 1845;   Anthenæum, Sept. 6. 1845; Illuminated Magazine, Oct. 1. 1845;  Kentish Independent, Oct. 11. 1845;  Nottingham Review, Oct. 17, 1845;  Sheffield Iris, Nov. 6, 1845;  Leicestershire Mercury (Ed.―still in business), December 13. 1845.
   

•        Opinions of the Press: on WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES.  Cooper said of this: "They [the stories] were there [in Stafford Gaol] written as a relief from the intenser thought and feeling exercised in the building-up of my prison-rhyme, "The Purgatory of Suicides"; and were published a few weeks after the poem appeared, in November, 1845, under the title of Wise Saws and Modern Instances: a title which I did not choose, and did not like."  Thus, when Cooper extended and republished the book some 30 years later, it appeared as "Old Fashioned Stories":― Athenæum, Nov. 15, 1845;  Atlas, Nov. 22, 1845;  Britannia, Nov. 8, 1845;  Kentish Independent, Dec. 13. 1845;  Leicester Chronicle, Dec. 6, 1845;  Glasgow Citizen, Nov. 15,1845.
   

•        Cooper meets de Quincy and interviews the sister of Robert Burns: from The International Monthly Magazine, of Literature, Science and Art, Vol. IV, 1851.
   

•       'Letter from Thomas Cooper' to R. G. Gammage, 26th Feb., 1855, reproduced subsequently with commentary as an appendix in Gammage's History of the Chartist Movement.
   

•       Lecture advertisement: from the Manchester Guardian 19 Jan, 1856.
   

•       Thomas Cooper and Thomas Carlyle: from 'Thomas Carlyle', Harpers New Monthly Magazine, New York, 1881.
   

•     Thomas Cooper and the Chartist Riot: from LEAFLETS FROM MY LIFE:
        A NARRATIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY MARY KIRBY (1888).
   

•        Obituary: The Times Saturday, July 16, 1892.
   

•        Funeral of Thomas Cooper: The Times, July 19th, 1892.
   

•        Two songs by Thomas Cooper.
   

•        Handwriting: a short undated letter from Cooper.
   

•        Charles Kingsley's correspondence with Cooper: from CHARLES KINGSLEY, His Letters and Memories of his Life (pub. 1888):
  
                  February 15, 1850;
  
                  EVERSLEY: November 2, 1853;
  
                  TORQUAY: 1854:
  
                  1855;
  
                  1856;
  
                  June 14, 1856;
  
                  June, 1856;
  
                  April 3, 1857;
  
                  May 9, 1857;
   

•        Biographic Sketch: Mark Hovell on Thomas Cooper, from THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT, chapter XII.