Date |
Location |
Event or Activity |
Writings, Lectures, Publications |
Correspondence |
Related Events & Activities |
Sources |
Bibliography/Location |
| July 27, 1764 | Chandos St. Covent Garden | birth of John Thelwall, to Joseph and Mary Thelwall | | | | | |
| 1764-81 | residence alternates between family shop in Covent Garden and home in Walcot-Place Lambeth | | | | | HCT Life of JT | |
| Summer 1769 or 1770 | Margate | summer seaside vacation with family provides occasion for visionary episode described in "A Childish Retrospect" in The Peripatetic | | | | HCT Life of JT and Peripatetic | |
| 1770 | | | | | birth of William Wordsworth | | |
| Circa 1768-74 | | early education with Rev. Pierce (Lambeth) and Mr. Dick (Hart St., Covent Garden) | | | | HCT Life of JT | |
| 1772 | Covent Garden | death of father, Joseph Thelwall | | | birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge | DNB | |
| 1774-1777 | Highgate | sent to boarding school in Highgate, friendship with tutor 'Harvey' and Philip Bonafous | | | | HCT Life of JT, Peripatetic | |
| mid-late 1770s | | Thelwall's "rage for theatricals" begins: he performs in school and family productions; tickets for Covent Garden theatre on sale at Thelwall shop, where actress in Garrick's company also boards | | | | HCT Life of JT, Alan Andrews | |
| 1777-1780 | Covent Garden | removed from school to work in family shop, domestic abuse and conflict intensifies; pursuing theatrical ambitions, applies to Colman the Elder at Haymarket & is discouraged | | | | HCT Life of JT | |
| 1780 | West End | is apprenticed to tailor for 1.5 years, begins habit of 'midnight rambles' and peripatetic reading, spends much time at Walcot Place (for health), is mugged on way to Walcot Place | alters a Shakespeare play, begins epic on Caesar in England, compiles History of Engand | | | HCT Life of JT | |
| 1780-1781 | | quits tailor job; studies divinity; pursuing artistic ambitions, applies to Benjamin West and other painters, but faces family and financial opposition | | | | HCT Life of JT | |
| 1782-1786 | | joins household of barrister brother-in-law Mr. Holt, and is articled to attorney John Impey for 3.5 years | | | | HCT Life of JT | |
| 1783 | Covent Garden | sale of effects at Mary Thelwall's shop, Covent Garden | | | | Andrews | |
| 1784 | | | | | Death of Samuel Johnson | | |
| mid-late 1780s | London | participation in debating societies, especially Society for Free Debate at Coachmaker's Hall | | | | HCT Life of JT | |
| 1786 | London | cancels legal indentures, begins life as a "literary adventurer" | | | publication of Burns' Poems, Chiefly in Scottish Dialect | HCT Life of JT | |
| 1788 | London | | writes "The Theft," "The Coquette," "The Turtle's Nest," "Rondeau"; delivers "A Speech in Rhyme"? | | birth of Lord Byron | Derby MS | "A speech in rhyme ?" at Oxford |
| 1787 | London | begins friendship with Dr. Henry Cline and Dr. Hawes (Humane Society) | publishes "Orlando and Almeyda" and Poems on Various Subjects (2 vol); writes farce Inkle and Yarico and submits it to Colman of Haymarket Theatre. | | | HCT Life of JT, Felsenstein & Scrivener | Poems on Various Subjects in BL (vol.1), Cambridge, Harvard, Newbery(2 vols); "Orlando & Almeyda" at NYU |
| 1788-1791 | London | edits Biographical and Imperial Magazine, contributes to Universal Magazine | publishes Biographical and Imperial Magazine | | | | Biographical and Imperial Magazine in BL, Dove Cottage Grasmere |
| 1789 | Rutlandshire, London | meets future wife Susannah Vellam on summer visit to Rutlandshire | writes "Epistle to Mercutio" (pub in Peripatetic) | | | HCT Life of JT, Peripatetic | |
| Summer 1789 | London | | writes "Ode on the Destruction of the Bastille" (pub.in Biographical and Imperial Magazine), two sonnets "To the Nightingale," "Song--The Charm," "The Laurel," "The Dove," "Valclusa's Vale. To Mrs. W--," "Epistle to a Friend," "Ode to a Friend" | | | HCT Life of JT, Scrivener Poetry & Reform, Derby MS | rpt. Scrivener Poetry & Reform |
| 1790 | London | friendship with Horne Tooke, campaigns for Tooke in Westminster election | | writes "Evander; or the consolations of Age"; publishes "Sketch of Life of John Howard," "Strictures on the lives and characters of the most eminent lawyers" | Jan: founding of London Corresponding Society; July: church and king riots | HCT Life of JT, Claeys, Derby MS | "Sketch of Life of Howard," LibCongress; "Strictures on ... lawyers" at Oxford |
| 1791 | #2 Maze Pond, Southwark | attends lectures of Cline, Haighton, Babington and Hunter at Guys & St. Thomas Hospitals; friendship with Astley Cooper and Edwin LeGrand; joins Physical Society and Society of Friends of People | publishes "Ode to Science", "Ode to Philomathian Society," "Ode for the Summer Anniversary of the Sols" | | founding of United Irishmen; Nov: Burke's Reflections on Revolution in France; Dec: Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men | HCT Life of JT, Claeys | "Ode to Science" in BL, Oxford ; "Ode to Science" (1978 rpt) in Edinburgh |
| 1791-1792 | | | | | Paine's The Rights of Man | | |
| July 27, 1791 | Oakham, Rutlandshire | marries Susannah Vellam (Stella) | | | Priestley's house and laboratory burned in Birmingham | | |
| 1792 | April excursion to Canterbury (foundation for Peripatetic) | lectures in Canterbury; joins Society of Friends of the People | writes travel journals (now lost), much of The Peripatetic, review of Smith's sonnets; posts "Vindication of Liberty of Speech"; publishes "The Rock of Modrec; or The Legend of Sir Eltram"; writes opera The Incas and submits it to Harris of Covent Garden | | January: founding of LCS, execution of King Louis XVI; May: Royal Proclamation against Sedition; Nov: suppression of Society for Free Debate; birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley | HCT Life of JT, Peripatetic, Claeys, J.Thompson, Felsenstein & Scrivener | The Incas in BL MSS |
| January 26, 1793 | London | | delivers and publishes Lecture on Animal Vitality | | | | Lecture on Animal Vitality at Oxford, BrownU |
| February, 1793 | London | | | | declaration of war with revolutionary France | | |
| April, 1793 | London | friendship with Holcroft, who advises him to write for theatre | publishes The Peripatetic | | | Andrews | The Peripatetic in BL, Oxford, LibCongress, Detroit Public Lib |
| October 21, 1793 | London | joins London Corresponding Society | | | | HCT Life of JT | |
| October-November, 1793 | London | | delivers Chaunticlere speech at Capel Court debating society; published in Eaton's Politics for the People | | Nov: Edinburgh Convention of LCS; Dec: trial and transportation of Scottish Martyrs | HCT Life of JT | |
| December, 1793 | London | birth of first child, Frances Maria Thelwall | | | | | |
| January-May, 1794 | Beaufort Bldgs | dines with radicals including Godwin; hijacks performance of Otway's Venice Preserv'd; deputed to Society for Constitutional Information; is expelled from Guy's Hospital Physical Society; lectures at #3 New Compton St, Soho; rents Beaufort Bldgs. and lives there with family | contributes prologue to Holcroft's Love's Frailties; delivers lecture On Origin of Sensation to Physical Society; publishes lectures On the Moral Tendency of a System of Spies and Informers and Sketches of the History of Prosecutions for Political Opinion, "On the Prostitution of our Public Theatres" | Mar 10: letter to Jack Vellum | Jan: conviction of Scottish martyrs; Feb: first performance of Holcroft's Love's Frailties; May 23: suspension of habeas corpus; May: Godwin's Caleb Williams | Andrews, Claeys, HCT Life of JT | Political Lectures no. 1 in BL, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, BrownU, Dove Cottage Grasmere; letter: PRO (rpt. Davies 2002) |
| May-December, 1794 | imprisoned in Tower (5 mos.) and Newgate | May 13: arrested; May 19: sent to Tower (solitary confinement); Oct 24: sent to Newgate; Dec 1-5: tried, acquitted, released; late Dec: death of mother, Mary Thelwall | writes prison sonnets and odes published in Poems Written in Confinement | | | Claeys | |
| 1795-1796 | Beaufort Bldgs | regular lectures, publication, meetings at Beaufort Bldgs. | publishes The Tribune (Mar 1795-Apr 1796) | | | Claeys | |
| 1795 | Beaufort Bldgs and Isle of Wight | | | | | | |
| 1795 | Beaufort Bldgs | Feb 6: begins new twice-weekly lectures at Beaufort Bldgs; Susan miscarries; breaks with Tooke and Godwin | publishes Poems Written in Close Confinement, "A Patriot's Feeling," "The Sheepsheering Song," "John Gilpin's Ghost," "Britain's Glory; or the Blessings of a Good Constitution," "Citizen Thelwall: Fraternity and Unanimity to the Friends of Freedom," The Natural and Constitutional Right of Britons ..., "News from Toulon; or the Men of Gotham's Expedition," Peacrful Discussion and Not Tumultuary Violence the Means ..., "To my Muse Give Attention," The Trial at Large of John Thelwall ..., "A Warning Voice to the Violent ..." | | birth of Keats; publication of Godwin's "Considerations on Grenville and Pitt ?" (criticizing Thelwall); publication of Wordsworth's Philanthropist; Paine's Age of Reason; Coleridge's Bristol lectures | DNB, Claeys | "John Gilpin's Ghost" in BL, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, NYU; "Gilpin" 1978 rpt in Edinburgh; Natural & Constitutional Rights in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, LibCongress, Newbery, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Case Western, NYPublic; "Peaceful Discussion and not tumultuary violence" in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, LibCongress; Poems in Confinement in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, LibCongress, YAle, Harvard; Political Lectures vol 1 Pt 1 in BL,Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Newbery; Political Lectures I-II in Union College Schenectady, Harvard, BrownU; "Trial for Treason" in Oxford, NY Albany, Philadelphia Bar Assn, UWash Law, Bowdoin; Tribune in Cambridge, Oxford, Dove Cottage Grasmere; Songs also at Dove Cottage Grasmere |
| Summer, 1795 | Isle of Wight | withdraws from LCS; retreats to Isle of Wight with family; returns to London leaving pregnant Susan and family on Isle of Wight | writes "A Patriot's Feeling" | | | HCT Life of JT, Scrivener Poetry & Reform | "Citizen Thelwall: Fraternity & Unanimity to the Friends of Freedom" BL, "Patriot's Feeling" rpt in Poetry & Reform |
| September 25, 1795 | Isle of Wight | birth of Algernon Sydney Thelwall | | | | | |
| October-December, 1795 | | addresses meetings at Copenhagen Fields (Oct 25, Nov 12), Marylebone Fields (Dec 7); Dec 18: Two Acts receive Royal Assent and go into force | increases Beaufort lectures to 6 times weekly | | Oct 29: opening of Parliament, attack on King's carriage; Dec 18: Two Acts proclaimed | Claeys | LCS/Copenhagen speeches in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, NY, Newbery, Harvard, Yale |
| 1796 | | | | | Roscoe's Life of Lorenzo di Medici | | |
| January-April 1796 | Beaufort Bldgs | delivers lectures on classical history in London, until forced to stop in April; Apr: begins correspondence with Coleridge | Apr: ceases publication of Tribune; publishes Democracy Vindicated (ed. Moyle's "Essay on Roman Government"); publishes The Rights of Nature, publishes Sober Reflections on Burke's Letter | | Feb: Burke's "Letter to a Noble Lord"; Mar-May: Coleridge's Watchman & Poems on Various Subjects; | Claeys | Thelwall's preface to Moyle's Democracy Vindicated in BL, "Prospectus of a course of lectures ? in strict conformity" in BL, CAmbridge, Oxford, LibCongress; Rights of Nature in BL,Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh, Duke, Uillinois, Yale, Crerar Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, LibCongress, UPenn, Philadelphia; Sober Reflections in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, Edinbrugh, Yale, Columbia, LibCongress, UCLA, UHouston, UNC Chapel Hill, Philadelphia, Brown, Newbery, Princeton, UTexas Austin, Cornell, Duke; "Strike, but Hear" at Oxford, Detroit Public |
| May 1796-May 1797 | Norwich, Ashby, Yarmouth, Lynn, Wisbech, Derby, Stockport | classical history lecture tour | | May 10: second (only surviving) letter to Coleridge | | Claeys | letter: BL MSS (rpt. Scrivener Letters) |
| May-August 1796 | Norwich | gives 22 lectures on Classical History in Norwich, well received | writes "Stanzas to Rosa Bella Bianca" | | July: death of Burns | Claeys, Poems in Retirement | |
| August, 1796 | Yarmouth | attempts to lecture met with riots and press-gangs, books destroyed, is forced to defend himself with pistol | publishes Appeal to Popular Opinion in Yarmouth | | | Claeys | Appeal to Popular Opinion (Yarmouth) at Cambridge, Oxford, Yale |
| September-October, 1796 | Lynn, Wisbeach, Sheffield | lectures disrupted by mob violence | publishes Appeal to Popular Opinion and Account of Late Outrages (in London) | | | Claeys | Appeal to Popular Opinion (London) in BL, LibCongress, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, NYPublic;" Particular account of the late outrages" Cambridge, Oxford |
| late 1796-early 1797 | Stockport, Lincolnshire, Rutlandshire | visits with Vellam family; discusses agrarian justice with Owen in Stockport | ends publication of Rights of Nature after part II; Dec: writes "To Stella in the Country" | | Dec: failed French invasion of Ireland | Claeys, Appeal to Popular Opinion, Poems in Retirement | |
| 1797 | Derby, London, Norwich, West Country tour, Nether Stowey, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Llyswen | | | | | Roe | |
| January, 1797 | | | publishes "To Stella in the country on her birthday 1790" in MM | | | MM | |
| February, 1797 | Derby | | writes "The Tartan Pladdie" and "To Stella" | letter to Wimpory | | Poems in Retirement | letter: Houghton/Harvard (rpt. DWD Letters) |
| March, 1797 | Derby | lectures, family joins him, stays with Strutt family, more disruption of lectures | | | | | |
| April, 1797 | London | edits Courier for two weeks before being driven out | | | | | |
| May, 1797 | Derby, Norwich | May 25: birth of John Hampden Thelwall in Derby; late May: returns to Norwich where lectures met by riots | | | naval mutinies, Paine's Agrarian Justice | | |
| June-July, 1797 | West Country tour: London, Windsor, Basingstoke, Overton, Salisbury, Wilton, Amesbury, Fonthill, Upton, Froome, Bath, Bristol | keeps travel journals later published as "Pedestrian Excursion" | | | death of Burke | | |
| July 17-27, 1797 | Nether Stowey, Somerset | visits with Coleridge and Wordsworth, a "literary and political triumvirate" | | July 18: letter to Susan | | E.P.Thompson, Roe, JTSP | letter: Pierpont Morgan (rpt. DWD Letters) |
| July 27, 1797 | Bridgewater | departs Nether Stowey on birthday | writes "Lines Written at Bridgewater" | | | Poems in Retirement | |
| August-September, 1797 | Bristol, Gloucestershire, Cowbridge, Swansea | plan to lecture in Bristol abandoned; searches for place to settle; tries to visit Edward Williams in Cowbridge, but misses him | | Aug 7: letter to Mayor of Bristol | sept 10: death of Mary Wollstonecraft | Poems in Retirement, letter: PRO | |
| October, 1797 | Derby, Dovedale | leases and stocks 35-acre farm in Llyswen, Wales, and moves there with family incl. Jack Vellum (Susan's brother) | writes "The Woodbine," "To the Infant Hampden," "Maria, A Fragment" | | | Poems in Retirement | |
| late 1797-late 1800 | Llyswen | | | | publication of Anti-Jacobin | | |
| 1798 | Llyswen | corresponds with Coleridge, Crompton & others; possibly visits (or is visited by) Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg); is visited by Wimpory, Coleridge and Wordsworth; gets into argument re water rights with neighbour (Roos Davies) | intensive writing: completes 5 books of Hope of Albion; by March is working on "Prefatory Memoir" and Daughter of Adoption (for Phillips); begins Fairy of the Lake; writes "Prologue written for a Company of Strollers" | | prosecution of Joseph Johnson & Gilbert Wakefield | "Prefatory Memoir," "Essay on Human Automatonism," Letter to Crompton rpt. Davies 2002. | "Prologue" in Derby MSS, Derby Local Studies |
| January, 1798 | Llyswen | visited by Wimpory | | Jan 16: letter to Hardy; letter to STC via Wimpory | publication of Godwin's Memoir of Wollstonecraft and Wollstonecraft's Maria | Corfield, DWD Letters | |
| February, 1798 | Llyswen | | | writes again to STC | United Irish rebellion (til Oct 1798) | DWD Letters | |
| March 3, 1798 | Llyswen | | | letter to Crompton | | | letter: Houghton/Harvard (rpt. DWD Letters) |
| April 2, 1798 | Llyswen | takes neighbour Roos Davies to Brecknock Quarter Sessions for assault | | | | E.P. Thompson, Powys archives | |
| May, 1798 | Llyswen | | publishes "Phenomena of the Wye" in MM | May 10: letter to Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) inviting him to Llyswen; Mary 24: letter to Hardy | | MM, DWD Letters, EPThompson | letter: Nat Lib Wales MSS (rpt. DWD Letters) |
| August, 1798 | Llyswen | Coleridge and the Wordsworths visit Llyswen for at least 3-4 days | | | | JTSP | |
| October-December, 1798 | Llyswen | | | | Coleridge and Wordsworths go to Germany; death of Wolfe Tone | | |
| 1799 | Llyswen | year of bitter harvest: mail intercepted, Jack Vellum leaves Llyswen, disastrous harvest, worsening relations with neighbours | writes "Pedestrian Excursion" and "Essay on the Wye"; begins The Daughter of Adoption | | | "Prefatory Memoir" | |
| January 26, 1799 | Llyswen | | | letter to Duke of Portland complaining of interception of his mail | | PRO | PRO 30/58/12A |
| March, 1799 | Llyswen | birth of Manon Roland Thelwall; Jack Vellum leaves Llyswen | | | Apr: Wordsworths return from Germany | christening records | |
| July, 1799 | London | walks to London with chap. 1 of Daughter of Adoption | completes chapter 1 of Daughter of Adoption | | Coleridge returns from Germany | "Prefatory Memoir" | |
| August 1799-November 1801 | Llyswen | | publishes Pedestrian Excursion and "Essay on the Wye" in the Monthly Magazine | | | MM | |
| October, 1799 | Llyswen | Crabb Robinson visits Llyswen | | | | Crabb Robinson's correspondence | |
| December 28, 1799 | Llyswen | death of Frances Maria Thelwall | | | Wordsworths move to Dove Cottage | "Prefatory Memoir," MM obit notice | |
| 1800 | Llyswen, Birmingham, Hereford | | | | Moore's Odes of Anacreon; Wordsworth's "Home at Grasmere" and 1800 Preface; | | |
| February-September, 1800 | Llyswen, Birmingham, Hereford | June & Sept: rallies with ironworkers at Merthyr Tydfil | writes "Paternal Tears" elegies, "The Harp on the Willow," remainder of Daughter of Adoption and Fairy of the Lake | | | Poems in Retirement | |
| June, 1800 | Llyswen, Merthyr Tydfil | rallies with ironworkers at Merthyr Tydfil; Susan goes to Hereford | | | | Poems in Retirement, Coburn STC Notebooks | |
| August, 1800 | | | writes "Effusion X" | Aug 12: letter to Dyer | | Poems in Retirement | letter: Pforzheimer NYPL MSS |
| autumn 1800 | | rallies with ironworkers at Merthyr Tydfil | writes "Effusion IX," completes Daughter of Adoption | Sept 11: letter from Crompton | | Poems in Retirement | Letter: Pierpont Morgan |
| December, 1800 | Widemarsh St., Hereford | moves to Hereford | researches Hope of Albion | Dec 17: renews correspondence with Coleridge | | STC letters | |
| 1801 | Hereford, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds | begins elocutionary profession; continues correspondence with Coleridge (until spring); appears in Public Characters for 1800-1801 | begins translation of DeLille's "L'Homme des Champs"; publishes Daughter of Adoption (London & Dublin imprints) and Poems in Retirement (Hereford and London imprints) | | Jan: Act of Union with Ireland proclaimed; Oct: preliminaries to treaty of Amiens; Nov 27: John Gough reads "An Investigation into Sonorous Bodies"; | | Daughter of Adoption (London) in BL, Oxford (rpt. Broadview 2013); Daughter of Adoption (Dublin) at Princeton, Harvard |
| February, 1801 | | birth of Sara Maria Thelwall | | Feb 28: letter to Hardy announcing purchase of house in Hereford, and intention to publish Poems; letter to STC proposing "secret expedition" re Fairy of the Lake | | christening records, Dove Cottage letters, STC letters | letter to Hardy: Dove Cottage Grasmere |
| August-September, 1801 | Hereford | Aug 12: letter to Dyer requesting antiquarian books & discussing preparation and circulation of Poems | publication of Poems in Retirement, Daughter of Adoption | | Sept: death of Wakefield; Southey's Thalaba | DWD Letters | Poems in Retirement (Hereford) in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, UOregon, Yale, LibCongress, Harvard, Cornell, NYPub, Huntington, Miami U Oxford, IndianaU, Ohio State, Dove Cottage Grasmere; Poems in Retirement (Dublin) at Harvard; Daughter of Adoption (London) in BL, Uvirginia, Ucal Berkeley; Fairy of the Lake alone at Duke, LibCongress, Princeton, Yale, UMissouri; Poems in REtirement 2nd ed. at Oxford |
| November, 1801 | Sheffield | gives first elocutionary lecture | | | | EPThompson | |
| 1802 | family in Hereford or Birmingham; JT touring extensively through midlands and north | begins elocutionary lecture tours | | | Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; Apr: death of Erasmus Darwin | Thelwall Outlines | |
| December, 1801-March, 1802 | Leeds, Birmingham | elocutionary lectures in Leeds; plans to sell house in Hereford and move family to Birmingham | | Dec 20: letter(s) to Strutt about new profession | Mar: Peace of Amiens (until May 1803) | DWD Letters | letter: Birmingham City MSS (rpt. DWD Letters) |
| May, 1802 | | extensive lecture tours through midlands and north of England and Scotland | prints and sells numerous different Selections and Outlines of his elocutionary lectures at the door, and at booksellers, in all the towns where he lectures | | | Thelwall Outlines | letter: Birmingham City MSS (rpt. DWD Letters) |
| February-March, 1802 | Leeds, Beverley, York | lecture tour | publishes Selections and "Black Bowl of Eboracum" in York; letter to MM re reputation and conflict with Belsham | | | MM, Thelwall Outlines | Selections (York) in BL, LibCongress, Yale, Cornell, UOregon; "Black Bowl of Eboracum" at Oxford, Cornell, |
| April-June, 1802 | Barton upon Humber, Howden, Alnwick | lecture tour; in Alnwick by late June | publishes letter to Belsham MM June 26 | | | MM, Thelwall Outlines | |
| June-September, 1802 | Wakefield, Sheffield, Ripon, Darlington, Stockton upon Tees, Sunderland, Newcastle, South Shields, North Shields, Knaresborough, Harrogate, Rotherham | lecture tour; in Rotherham by early Sept; visits Dr. Warwick in Rotherham | possibly writes "Draw your Yellow Stockings On" at Dr. Warwick's | | Wordsworth visits France & writes political sonnets | Derby MS, Thelwall Outlines | Derby MS, Derby Local Studies; Selections (Wakefield): Dove Cottage Grasmere, BL |
| September-October, 1802 | Nottingham | lecture tour | | | | Thelwall Outlines | |
| December, 1802 | Birmingham, Hereford | gives 14 lectures in Birmingham; birth of Edwin Northumbrian Thelwall | | | | Thelwall Outlines, christening records | |
| 1803 | family in Kendal by Nov, JT touring extensively through north | extensive lecture tours through north of England, settles family in Kendal | writes "Ode to Paley," "Ode on Fan of Mrs. G" and probably several other odes and "fan-club" poems | | execution of Despard | Derby MS | Derby MS, Derby Local Studies |
| January, 1803 | Shrewsbury | | | | | Thelwall Outlines | |
| February, 1803 | Liverpool, Warrington | gives 18 lectures in Liverpool; cultivates connections with Crompton and Roscoe circle | | | | Thelwall Outlines | |
| March-May, 1803 | Manchester | gives 2 series of 15-16 lectures in Manchester | writes and delivers "Sawney's Pocket Knife" | letter to Hardy | April: review of Poems in Retirement in Edinburgh Review | Thelwall Outlines | Elocution & Oratory (Manchester) in Edinburgh, LibCongress, Yale |
| June-July, 1803 | Rochdale, Mirfield, Halifax, Brighouse, Huddersfield | June 18-July 7: lectures in Halifax; July 9-18: Brighouse; July 22-Aug 7: Huddersfield; Aug 8 ff: Halifax | writes "Mirfield" & "The Expiring Zephyr" | June 10: letter to Hardy from Rochdale | | Halifax Journal, Derby MS | |
| Summer, 1803 | Halifax | gives 18 lectures | | | July: abortive Emmet rising in Ireland; Aug: death of Beattie | Thelwall Outlines | |
| October-November,1803 | Kendal, Lancaster, Keswick, | Oct: Thelwall family settles in Kendal; JT lectures in Kendal and meets Gough; early-mid Nov: JT lectures in Lancaster; late Nov: JT visits Wordsworth in Grasmere & Coleridge & Southey in Keswick | Nov 15: writes letter to Gough via MM re theories of voice; publishes letter/essay on Burke's theory of language in MM | Nov: letters to Coleridge | | Thelwall Outlines, Lancaster newspaper, STC letters, Kendal archives, MM | |
| November-December, 1803 | Penrith, Carlisle, Longtown, Langholme, Hawick, Selkirk, Edinburgh | Nov 29: walks with Hazlitt to Penrith; Nov 30: onward through Carlisle; by Dec 8 in Edinburgh | probably writes "Sonnet in the Style of Ossian" on road between Hawick and Selkirk | Nov 29: letter to Susan Thelwall | | Derby MS, DWD Letters | Letter: Pierpont Morgan (rpt. DWD Letters) |
| December, 1803 | Edinburgh | lecture series disrupted (by Jeffrey) and ends after first lecture | Dec 13: publishes A Letter to Francis Jeffray | | | | A Letter to Francis Jeffray in BL, Oxford, Edinburgh, Yale, LibCongress, IndianaU, Louisiana State, UChicago, Uillinois; Mr. Thelwall's Reply ... in BL, Oxford, Edinburgh, LibCongress, Louisiana State, Chicago, Huntington, Uillinois, Yale; "Observations on Mr. Thelwall's letter ..." Edinburgh |
| December, 1803-April, 1804 | Scotland | Scottish tour | | | | | |
| 1804 | Scotland, Kendal | | | letter to John Nichols | | | letter: Oxford Bodleian MSS |
| January, 1804 | Glasgow | retreats to Glasgow; cultivates connections with Anderson/Birkbeck circle | writes "To Miss Grahame" | writes letters (with pamphlet) to Crompton and Wordsworth; Jan 16: writes to Anderson | Coleridge leaves Lake District for London and then Malta (May) | WW Letters, Derby MS, Nat Lib Scotland | letter to Anderson: Nat Lib Scotland MSS |
| February, 1804 | Glasgow | | publishes letter on Gough (germ of Letter to Cline,) in MM | | Feb 9: letter to Anderson from Glasgow | MM, Nat Lib Scotland | letter to Anderson: Nat Lib Scotland MSS |
| March-April, 1804 | Scottish tour: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Roslin Castle, Greenock, Paisley, Loch Lomond, Ayr, Dumfries | tours Scotland | Mar 9: publishes Mr. Thelwall's Reply ? ; writes "The Tear: to Miss Geddes," "To Miss Bannatine" "The Lark," "Hannah's Eye" | | | Derby MS, letters to Anderson | |
| May, 1804 | | | publishes letter to MM on Jeffrey affair; writes case study | | Napoleon crowns himself Emperor | MM | |
| June, 1804 | Kendal | returns to family for summer, probably visits Wordsworth (as invited in letter of Jan) | writes "The Water Lily" at Windermere | | | Derby MS | Derby MS, Derby Local Studies |
| July-August, 1804 | Kendal, Carlisle | leaves family in Kendal and heads north via Carlisle (late Aug) | publishes case studies in MM (germ of Letter to Cline); writes letter to MM; writes "Pegasus O'erladen," "A Farewell to the Dale of Kent," "The Cottage," "The First Gray Hair," "Reply to a Poem of Lord Vaux," "Age and Youth," and possibly "To Disappointment" "Battle Royal," "How to Make Negus," "The Stormy Voyage of Life" etc. | | | Deby MS | Derby MS, Derby Local Studies |
| December, 1804 | | | | | Spain declares war on Britain | | |
| 1805 | Kendal, Doncaster, Newcastle, Blackpool, Liverpool | movements between autumn 1804 and spring 1805 unclear; JT seems to have toured for part of that time, while family stayed in Kendal, perhaps until autumn 1805; probably JT spent summer in Kendal and worked on volume of Poems on Nature (Derby MS); possible contact with WW | probably plans Poems Chiefly Suggested by the Scenery of Nature (Derby MS, unpublished) and writes "Song of Eros," "Proem" and many other undated poems in vol I and II of Derby MS | | Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel; Southey's Madoc, Roscoe's Life of Pope Leo | Derby MS | Derby MS, Derby Local Studies |
| April, 1805 | Doncaster, Pontefract, Newcastle, Preston | lectures; announces intention to return to London but also postponement until autumn 1805; receives visit from Sara Coleridge in Preston | writes letter to MM on elocution (published May), publishes Outlines with "Introductory Discourse" attached in Pontefract | | Wordsworth completes 12-book 1805 Prelude | MM | "Introductory Discourse" (Pontefract) in BL, UOregon, Yale, Philadelphia, LibCongress, Uillinois, Harvard, Uutah, Umichigan, PennState |
| August, 1805 | | | notice in MM re Yorkshire & Lancashire lectures | | | | |
| September-October, 1805 | Blackpool | probably moves family to Liverpool this autumn; opens Institute there | composes & delivers "The Storm Without" extempore in public room | | Oct 21: victory of Nelson at Trafalgar | Derby MS, Rockey | Derby MS, Derby Local Studies |
| November-December, 1805 | Liverpool | lectures at Lyceum, delivers poem & oration on death of Nelson | writes & delivers "The Trident of Albion"; Dec: publishes "Trident of Albion" | | | Selections ads, MM | "Trident of Albion" in BL, Oxford, Harvard,UOregon, UMass, UIllinois, UUtah, UMichigan, PennState; "Trident" 1978 rpt. in Edinburgh |
| 1806 | Birmingham, London | | writes "The Maid of Catmose"; publishes "A Monody on the Rt.Hon Charles James Fox" | | abolition bill passes | Derby MS | "Monody" at Dove Cottage Grasmere |
| January-February, 1806 | Birmingham | | publishes Selections & Original Articles etc. (including his own "Pegasus O'erladen," "Song of Eros," "The Critical Shaver," translation of DeLille, "Vision of Ancient and Modern Manchester," "Sawney's Pocket Knife") | | death of Pitt | Selections ads | Selections (Birmingham) in BL, Oxford, Cornell, Yale |
| March-April, 1806 | Bedford Place, London | opens Institute | Apr: announces opening of Institute in MM | | Wordsworth visits London, probably sees JT | MM, WW bio, WW Letters, JTSP | |
| June-August, 1806 | Bedford Place, London | | publishes "Anacreontic" in MM | | Coleridge returns from Malta | | |
| September, 1806 | Bedford Place | announces regular literary and elocutionary lectures | | | Sept 13: death of Fox | | |
| October, 1806 | Bedford Place | | publishes "Monody on Death of Fox"; publishes "Mr Thelwall on Milton" and plan for new oral reading edition of Milton in MM | | | MM | "Monody on Fox" in BL, Newbery, LibCongress, Chicago, UIllinois, Cornell, Harvard, UOregon, |
| December, 1806 | Bedford Place | | publishes on improper elision of vowels in MM | | | MM | |
| 1807 | Bedford Place | lectures on defects and malformations of elocutionary organs | composes & delivers "Impromptu" | | France invades Spain & Portugal; Wordsworth's Poems in Two Volumes | MM, Derby MS | |
| January, 1807 | Bedford Place | announces new course of lectures on elocution in MM | | | | MM | |
| February, 1807 | Bedford Place | | publishes essay on Musical Properties of Engiish Syllables in MM | | | | |
| March, 1807 | | | | | abolition act proclaimed | | |
| April, 1807 | Bedford Place | | publishes "The Negro's Prayer" in MM | | | MM | |
| June 19, 1807 | Bedford Place | gives 3-hr public exhibition of his pupils | | | | | |
| Summer, 1807 | Bedford Place | summer recess of Institute | | | | | |
| August, 1807 | Bedford Place | | publishes "Ode to Rushton" and "Particulars re Public Exhibition of Pupils" in MM | | | MM | |
| October 14, 1807 | Bedford Place | Institute reopens after recess | | | | MM | |
| November-December, 1807 | Bedford Place | new course of lectures begins on 26 Nov. | writes and publishes on work of Abbe de L'Epee, teaching deaf and dumb, and treatments of impediments in MM | | | MM | |
| 1808 | Bedford Place | | publishes plan and terms of tuition for Institute | | Jan: STC's first lectures on poetry & principles of taste; Leigh Hunt becomes editor of Examiner; Convention of Cintra signed | | "Plan and Terms of Tuition" at Harvard |
| April, 1808 | Bedford Place | | publishes on impediments in MM | | Moore's Irish Melodies | MM | |
| June, 1808 | Bedford Place | | | letter to TJ Pettigrew, mentioning Drs. Lettson & Hawes | | | letter: BL MSS (rpt. Scrivener Letters) |
| Summer, 1808 | West Country tour: Tiverton & Taunton | West country tour: lectures on politics (Bonaparte & Spanish patriots) in Tiverton & Taunton | writes and delivers "Ode addressed to energies of Britain on behalf of the Spanish Patriots" | | | Roe | "Ode on Spanish Patriots" at Oxford, Harvard, UUtah, UMichigan, PennSTate |
| 1809 | | | | | Coleridge in Lake District, publishes The Friend (till mar 1810); deaths of Thomas Holcroft (March 23) and Joseph Johnson (Dec 20); Quarterly Review begins publication | | |
| April, 1809 | Bedford Place | attends meeting at Crown & Anchor to raise money for Holcroft's family after his death | publishes letter re 18th c rhetoric (Herries, Cockin, Steele) in MM | | Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | MM | |
| June-August, 1809 | Bedford Place | | writes & publishes "Mr. Thelwall on Impediments and Case of Amentia" in MM | | June: Wordsworth's "Convention of Cintra"; death of Paine | MM | |
| August-September, 1809 | Bedford Place | | announces Historical & Oratorical Society and intention to lecture on History | | | MM | |
| 1810 | Bedford Place | | lectures on Poetry, History, Oratory, Milton and Shakespeare; publishes Vestibule of Eloquence (his own original poems, including odes, & books 4-5 of Hope of Albion) and Letter to Henry Cline | letter to Earl of Harrowby (re son's elocution) | Scott's The Lady of the Lake | Zimmerman | letter: Sandonhall Staffordshire; Vestibule at BL, Yale, Princeton, LibCongress, UOregon, UIllinois, Harvard, UMichigan, UUtah, PennState; Letter to Cline at BL, Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UCLA, NYPL, Ohio Wesleyan, Chicago, Kansas Medical, Philadelphia |
| Autumn 1810 | Bedford Place | | publishes on music and treatment of impediments in MM; exchange of letters with Smart re elocutionary principles in MM | | STC in London: estrangement between WW and STC | | |
| 1811 | Bedford Place | lectures on history alternate with English Classics and language; Algernon Sydney (age 16) begins to lecture on Astronomy | delivers regular lectures on Milton, Scott, English Dramatic Poets, Shakespeare, Reign of James I, Principles of Oratory and Composition | letter to Earl of Harrowby (re son's elocution) | Regency begins; Austen's Sense & Sensibility; Barbauld's Female Speaker; Shelley's "Necessity of Atheism"; STC writes for Courier | Crabb Robinson Memoirs, Zimmerman | letter: Sandonhall Staffordshire |
| January-February, 1811 | Bedford Place | lectures on history alternate with lectures on classics, and "Genius & Rhythmus of Milton & Dryden" | | | | Zimmerman | |
| March-April, 1811 | Bedford Place | lectures on Reign of James I, poetry of Scott incl. "Lady of the Lake", Milton's PL, Shakespeare and English Dramatic Poets | | | | Zimmerman | |
| Summer, 1811 | Bedford Place | recites at gathering hosted by Lady Cork | | | | Rockey | |
| October-November, 1811 | Bedford Place | lectures on Genius & Rhythmus of English Language, Principles of Oratory & Composition, alternating with AST's lectures on Astronomy | | | | Zimmerman | |
| November, 1811 | | | | | Nov 11: STC begins lectures on Shakespeare & Milton; Luddite uprisings begin | | |
| 1812 | Bedford Place | lectures on the English Language; no ads between Feb and Nov; | publishes regularized
Selections | | May-Aug: Coleridge lectures on drama, reissues The Friend; publication of Byron's Childe Harold I-II; Sarah Siddons retires; War of 1812; Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven; meeting of Godwin & Shelley | Zimmerman | Selections (London) in BL, UYork, LibCongress, Umichigan, Harvard, Boston Public, Uillinois, KentState |
| January-February, 1812 | Bedford Place | lectures on language alternating with AST on Astronomy; Feb 27: hosts dinner party with Northmore, Frend, Dyer, Crabb Robinson | | | | Crabb Robinson Memoirs, Zimmerman | |
| November, 1812 | Bedford Place | lectures on Locke alternate with AST on Astronomy | | | Oct-Nov: STC lectures on Shakespeare & Belles Lettres in Bristol, Clifton and London (til Jan 1813) | Zimmerman | |
| 1813 | Bedford Place, Lincoln's Inn Fields | moves premises to Lincoln's Inn Fields, announces lectures on Shakespeare etc. between Jan and May but none for fall, only private instruction and weekly meetings of Historical Society beginning October | | | STC's "Remorse" performed at Drury Lane, STC lectures on Milton, Shakespeare, Cervantes, taste, education, French REvolution (autumn 1813-apr 1814); anon. review of Letter to Cline in Monthly Review #70; Shelley's "Queen Mab"; Southey's Life of Nelson & Southey named poet-laureate; Leigh Hunt imprisoned for libel; WW's patronage position | Zimmerman | |
| 1814 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | no lectures til Feb | publishes Results of Experience in the treatment of cases of defective utterance | | Crabbe: "The Dumb Orators"; Wordsworth: The Excursion; Byron's "Corsair" & "Hebrew Melodies"; Scott's Waverley; Burney's The Wanderer; new Monthly Mag begins; Kean's debut | Zimmerman | Results of Experience in BL, Cambridge, Oxford, Princeton, Philadelphia, UKansas medical |
| February-April, 1814 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | lectures on Elocution, Oratory, Milton and the Modern Poets | | | Apr: Napoleon abdicates; May: restoration of Bourbons | Zimmerman | |
| August, 1814 | | | | | WW's Excursion | | |
| Summer-September, 1814 | France | visits France with Crabb Robinson (or meets him there), visits with Abbe Sicard | publishes "Diary of an Excursion to France" in Courier | | Sept: death of Thomas Spence | Rockey | |
| October-December, 1814 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | lectures on poetry and the stage | | | STC's essays on criticism published in Bristol & Courier | | |
| 1815 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | | publishes miscellaneous poems in MM | | WW's Poems of 1815 | | |
| February, 1815 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | Crabb Robinson visits, reports that Susan looks ill, they discuss Wordsworth (accusation of plagiarism); lectures on the Service of the Church of England | continues work on Hope of Albion and annotates WW's Excursion; begins lectures on service of Church of England | | | Crabb Robinson memoirs; Zimmerman | |
| June, 1815 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | June 30: Crabb Robinson visits, JT depressed re victory at Waterloo and restoration of Bourbons | | | Battle of Waterloo | Crabb Robinson memoirs | |
| July, 1815 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | July 4: exhibition of students at Institute for visiting Abbe Sicard | | | STC begins Biographia Literaria | Crabb Robinson memoirs, Rockey | |
| December, 1815 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | Dec. 27: exhibition of students including performance of "Comus" by stutterers | | | | Crabb Robinson memoirs | |
| 1816 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | Susan's illness worsens; she dies in autumn; ads for Institute diminish, no lectures announced; Jan: Algernon Sydney admitted to Bar | probably writes "paphiades" and "anacreontics," Pandolia fragments included in Derby MS | | Dec 16: Spa-Fields meeting & rising; prosecution of Wm Home (til 1817); Coleridge's Statesman's Manual; Shelley's "Alastor"; Byron's Childe Harold III | Zimmerman | |
| May, 1816 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | | possibly writes meditative blank-verse elegy "Tis past--my sum of sorrows is complete" (transcribed by AST) | | STC publishes "Christabel," "Kubla Khan" etc | AST "Thoughts in Affliction" | |
| July, 1816 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | begins to serve as "agent" for Cecil Boyle (writing to theatre managers), whose performances are reviewed by Hazlitt; sends select stanzas of anacreontics and paphiades to "Laura" | probably writes "paphiades" and "anacreontics" later published in Champion and included in Derby MS | July 18: letter to Elliston seeking parts for "Miss Boyle (or as we shall call her, Miss Wentworth)" | Byron & Shelleys at Diodati | | letter: Harvard MSS |
| Autumn 1816 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | death of Susan Thelwall | possibly submits tragedy to Drury Lane | | | Crabb Robinson memoirs, Rockey | |
| 1817 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | | | | STC Biographia Literaria, Keats' Poems; Hazlitt on Shakespeare, Byron's Manfred' Southey's Wat Tyler | | |
| March, 1817 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | lectures on Milton and Shakespeare recommence (til May) | | | Mar 4: Habeas Corpus suspended; Apr: founding of Blackwood's Magazine; STC publishes second Lay Sermon | Zimmerman | |
| May, 1817 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | May 11: christening of Thelwall children (Algernon Sydney, John Hampden, Manon Roland, Sara Maria, Edwin Northumbrian); May 15: marriage to Cecil Boyle; May 27: Crabb Robinson visits, reports Cecil looks poorly, "an invalid" and retiring | | | | marriage and christening records | |
| June-September, 1817 | Ireland: Dublin (til July 18), Limerick, Cork, Clonmel, Waterford, Belfast (Sept) | Irish tour: lectures on Shakespeare (incl Kean in Richard III), reviewed in Dublin papers | | | July: deaths of Jane Austen & Germaine de Stael; STC publishes Biographia Literaria | Dublin newspapers | |
| October-November, 1817 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | lectures on elocution, shakespeare and drama; delivers "Monody on Death of the Princess Charlotte" | writes "Monody on Death of Princess Charlotte"; by this time has written a version of Shakespeare's history plays | Nov 18: letter to Henry Harris (Covent Garden) about Edmund Kean and Thelwall's own version of Shakespeare's history plays | Nov 6: death of Princess Charlotte | | letter: BL MSS (rpt. Scrivener Letters) |
| 1818 | Lincoln's Inn Fields, continent | no lectures or ads until Oct; Aug-Sept: is in France and possibly elsewhere on continent with Cecil, Manon and Sara; Algernon Sydney graduates BA Cambridge | does caricature line drawings in Stanger collection | | new series of lectures by Hazlitt and Coleridge in Jan 1818 | | drawings: Jerwood/Dove Cottage Grasmere |
| July-August, 1818 | | departs for France early August, lectures in Paris and Brussels/Hague | | letter to M.Maury Duval, Depot Bibliographique, Paris re plan for Mr. & Mrs. T and daughters (Manon and Sara) to visit & lecture tour | | | letter: Wellcome Institute London |
| October, 1818 | | returns from continent | | | | | |
| December, 1818 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | purchases Champion newspaper (Dec 3); announces new lectures on poetry, drama and philosophy of history | | | | | |
| 1819 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | lectures three days a week on Poetry & Drama (Mondays), Politics & History (Wednesdays), Elocution & Oratory (Friday); Algernon Sydney ordained and goes to Amsterdam as missionary to Jews (until 1826) | writes and publishes The Champion, including essays, reviews and poetry; possibly 'Daphnis; a pastoral' in MM | letter to Swainson | Aug 19: Peterloo massacre | | Champion at BL Colindale, Oxford; letter: Linnean Soc. London MSS |
| 1820 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | supports Cato St. conspirators in Champion; July: meets Cartwright et.al. in Warwick | writes and publishes The Champion | letters to Place and Hobhouse re politics | Feb-April: Cato St. conspiracy, trial & executions; Hazlitt: "On the Difference between Speaking and Writing" | Scrivener, Seditious Allegories | |
| January, 1820 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | | | letters to Place & Hobhouse re election | | | letters: BL MSS |
| Early 1820 | Lincoln's Inn Fields | indictment for seditious libel instigated against JT and Champion by Constitutional Assn | writes "On the approach of Spring" | | | Derby MS | Derby MS, Derby Local Studies |
| May, 1821 | | arrested and jailed overnight as a result of supporting Cato St. conspirators | | | | Scrivener; Scrivener, Seditious Allegories | |
| December, 1821 | North Brixton Cottage | abandons Champion; sells Institute; moves to Brixton | | | | Scrivener, Seditious Allegories | |
| 1822 | North Brixton Cottage | | publishes Poetical Recreations of the Champion; writes much new poetry; returns to Hope of Albion; does caricature drawings | | death of Shelley | | drawings: Jerwood/Dove Cottage Grasmere |
| April-May, 1822 | North Brixton Cottage | | Apr: writes "Tranquillity"; writes occasional addresses for Drury Lane & Covent Garden (re Irish distresses) | | | Derby MS | |
| July, 1822 | North Brixton Cottage | trip to continent to visit Cecil's sister in Boulogne | writes "The Falconer to his Bird on the Wing" and "Sonnet: on the suggestion of a continental Excursion" | | | MM, Derby MS | |
| October-November, 1822 | North Brixton Cottage | | writes "Song. To Cecil ("I love thee love"), "Auto-Biography" to Dr Crompton and "To Kitty Brown" | | | MM, Derby MS | |
| 1823 | North Brixton Cottage | John Hampden graduates BA Cambridge | writes "Song. Westminster's Triumph," "To Kitty Brown--with some fruit" and "My Sixtieth Year" | | Mary Shelley's Valperga; Lamb's Essays of Elia; Dec: opening of first mechanics' institute | Derby MS | |
| 1824 | North Brixton Cottage | | possibly writes "Alone--alone--alone upon the earth" | | Landon's Improvisatrice, Byron's Don Juan 15-16 and death, Mitford's Our Village | AST "Thoughts in Affliction" | |
| April, 1824 | North Brixton Cottage | begins "Shakespearian comment, recitation and oratorical declamation" at Haymarket Theatre | | | | MM | |
| May, 1824 | North Brixton Cottage | submits article(s) to Westminster Review (unsuccessfully) | | letters to Place | | | letters: BL MSS |
| November, 1824 | North Brixton Cottage | takes over editorship of Monthly Magazine | | letter to Roscoe soliciting MM contributions | | | letter: Liverpool Record Office |
| December, 1824 | Pall Mall East | announces move to Pall Mall and intention to resume professional pursuits | publishes "Sonnet on Suggestion of Continental Excursion," "I love thee love" and Epic Fragments from Hope of Albion in MM | | | MM | |
| 1825 | | | | | Landon's Troubadour, Hemans' Forest Sanctuary, Barbauld's Works, Byron's Works, Hazlitt's The Spirit of the Age | | |
| February, 1825 | #1 Dorset Place, Pall Mall East | | publishes "The Fairest and the Best," more Epic Fragments from Hope of Albion, and lengthy letter/essay on speech anatomy | | | MM | |
| August-September, 1805 | Dorset Place, Pall Mall East | | publishes "A Night-Walk" and essay on mechanics institutes in MM; writes "Cleanthe" | | | MM, Derby MS | |
| January-June, 1826 | Dorset Place, Pall Mall East | publication of Panoramic Miscellany | contributes majority of essays, reviews, poems etc. to Panoramic Miscellany, incl. reviews of Landon, Mary Shelley, regular columns on Italian literature; publishes "Orator Henley" in Retrospective Review | | height of gift-book popularity | | |
| February, 1826 | Dorset Place, Pall Mall East | sends out prospecti for Panoramic Miscellany | | letter to Joseph Hunter | | | letter: BL MSS (rpt. Scrivener Letters) |
| June, 1826 | Dorset Place, Pall Mall East | | | letter to Rolfe | | | letter: Harvard MSS |
| August, 1826 | Dorset Place, Pall Mall East | | writes "Sympathy: A Domestic Sketch" | | | Derby MS | |
| 1827 | Dorset Place, Pall Mall East | seeks lecture gigs at London Literary and Scientific Institution | probably writes Musalogia; Sept: writes "For the Album of Lady Weymouth," "The Wreath" and "The Young Aurora" | letter to London Lit & Sc Institution | Greek independence; Canning's ministry; deaths of Blake and Beethoven | | letter: Harvard MSS |
| 1828 | Lamb's Conduit St., West Country, Cambridge, Liverpool | lectures in Cambridge, Bristol & West, London Institution, Liverpool (?) | | May 14: letter to Traill re lectures in Liverpool | Hemans' Records of Women, Coleridge's Poetical Works, Hazlitt's Life of Napoleon | | letter: Nat Lib Scotland |
| November-December, 1828 | Manchester, Bristol | lectures in Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol (into Jan 1829); stays with Wimpory family on Falkner St. Manchester; Algernon Sydney marries | | Nov 20: letter to Daniel | | | letter: Royal Institution MSS |
| 1829 | | Algernon Sydney becomes curate in Somerset | | | Catholic Emancipation act proclaimed | | |
| April-June, 1829 | Preston, Kendal, Penrith | lectures in Kendal, Preston, possibly Penrith | | letter from Kendal | | Kendal & Preston newspapers | letter: Nat Lib Scotland |
| 1830 | | | | | Cobbett's Rural Rides | | |
| March 23, 1830 | | | | letter to Mr. Brooke | | | letter: Pierpont Morgan |
| September, 1830 | | | | | death of Hazlitt | | |
| December, 1830 | Nottingham | lectures in Nottingham (?) | | letters to Heywood seeking to lectures at Manchester RI (turned down) | | | letters: Manchester City Library MSS |
| 1831 | 27 Albany St., Regent's Park | on parish committee of St.Pancras; involved in agitation re reform bill; John Hampden becomes rector of Oving,nr Aylesbury; Algernon Sydney works for Trinitarian Bible Society | | letter to Place | | | letter: BL MSS (rpt. Scrivener Letters) |
| January, 1831 | Nottingham | plans trip to Manchester | | letter to Portia Wimpory re lectures in Manchester vs. Bath | | | letter: Manchester City Library MSS |
| August, 1831 | 27 Albany St., Regent's Park | Aug 4: birth of Weymouth Birkbeck Thelwall | | Aug 4: letter to Sara Maria re birth of son; Aug 23: to Dyer re classical history & poetry books | | | letter to Sara: Berg NYPL; to Dyer: Wellcome London |
| October, 1831 | 27 Albany St., Regent's Park | | | letter to Place re political crisis & reform dinner | publication of AST's Thoughts on Affliction | | letter: BL MSS (rpt. Scrivener Letters) |
| 1832 | 27 Albany St. Regent's Park | seeks support from Astley Cooper for new undertaking; July 11: attends Great Reform Banquet | | | June: passage of Great Reform Bill | | |
| March, 1832 | Oving | seeks subscriptions/financial help for self and son John Hampden (rector of Oving) | | letter to Place re financial disappointment | | | letter: BL MSS (rpt. Scrivener Letters) |
| June, 1832 | Oving | | | letter to Place re plans for reform banquet | | | |
| October, 1832 | 68 Warren St., Fitzroy Squeare | gives funeral oration for Thomas Hardy | | letter to Place re Burdett | death of Thomas Hardy | | |
| November, 1832 | High Wycombe, Uxbridge, Brighton | peripatetic lectures | | | Nov 6: notice in Times of JT's funeral oration for Hardy | | |
| 1833 | 68 Warren St., Fitzroy Square | lectures at London Mechanic's Institute | | | | Kelly, Rockey | |
| August, 1833 | | speaks at public meeting in support of Polish exiles in Switzerland | | | | O'Boyle | |
| January, 1834 | Bristol | Jan 11-Feb 8: lectures in Bristol | | | | | |
| February, 1834 | Bath | Feb 8-17: lectures in Bath | | | | | |
| February 17, 1834 | home of Mr. Marshall, Bath | Thelwall dies of heart attack | | | death noted in Times | | |