One from Many: A New Chronology of Joanna Baillie's Letters

Notes

¹ Two letters previously identified as Baillie’s are not hers and thus do not appear in the chronology. In the Collected Letters Slagle prints “a fragment of a letter to Thomas Noon Talfourd” (CL 1100) but suspects the handwriting is Agnes Baillie’s. This is in fact a portion of a complete letter at the Huntington Library (TA 192) to Talfourd from Charles Babbage. In my article “Joanna Baillie in New Zealand: Eight New Letters” (Keats-Shelley Journal 54 [2005] 33-42), I included an unsigned 16 August 1813 letter to Mary Berry attributed to Baillie. I was wrong to do so; recent research suggests that the writer is almost certainly Berry’s and Baillie’s friend Anne Seymour Damer.
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