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Correspondence, diary, verse and other papers of and relating to John Wilson ‘Christopher North’, author and journalist [1785-1854].
The bulk and principal interest of the papers lie in the letters written by John Wilson to his mother, sister Jane and his wife Jane. Many of the letters relate to Wilson’s early life and shed light on his relations with his family, his life as a student in Glasgow and later in Oxford, and also at Elleray in the Lake District.
Correspondence of James Grahame.
Includes letters of Henry Cockburn, Thomas Campbell, Joanna Baillie and John Wilson.
Correspondence of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and his family.
Correspondents include Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, John Hamilton Dalrymple, 8th Earl of Stair, and John Wilson, pseudonym Christopher North.
Letter of J G Lockhart to John Wilson.
Concerns a visit by Sir Walter Scott and his party to the Lake District, and a projected meeting there with George Canning.
Letter of John Wilson Croker to John Wilson, pseudonym Christopher North.
Wilson Croker offers support for Wilson`s candidacy for the Chair of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.
Letter of John Wilson to Alexander Blair.
Letter concerns the success of "Blackwood`s Magazine", the requirements for contributors to it and on a co-operative literary project.
Letter of John Wilson to James Hogg seeking contibutions for "Blackwood`s Magazine" and mentioning a "Wordsworthian horse".
Letter of John Wilson to John Aitken.
Wilson discusses James Hogg`s impending marriage, and his own article on Chapman`s "Homer".
Letter of Susan Ferrier probably to John Wilson.
Concerns social arrangements and Edinburgh meetings.
Two letters, 1833 and undated, of John Wilson, one as Christopher North.
Concern contributions submitted to "Blackwood`s Magazine" and state his right to reject such contributions.
Includes two letters, 1835-1836, to Wilson from William Motherwell and Thomas Campbell.