Crabb Robinson Diary

HCR diary 13.2.1823 musical part at Aders "De Quincey whom I met lately was to have accompanied me"

Presumably Thomas Penson De Quincet (DNB 1785-1859)

HCR diary 30.11.1841 called "on Mrs De Morgan about Mrs Aders. I found her impression unfavorable - and even Mrs Gilman it seems is less friendly - perhaps it may be she is tired out. She said she thought I had been too kind"

Probably Sophia Elizabeth (1809-1842) wife of Augustus De Morgan (DNB 1806-1871) and daughter of William Frend (DNB 1757-1841). They married on 3.8.1837 and had seven children

HCR diary 10.8.1839 lottery at Colnaghi's "I got for my sovereign an engraving of Linnell's Christ Going to Emmaus - much praised by Daniel, Mrs Aders etc"

Probably Edward Thomas Daniell (DNB 1804-1842) where his "continued encouragement of Linnell" is mentioned

HCR diary 25.12.1827 Christmas dinner at Aders "There was also a Mr Corbould a rattling fellow - who amused us much by a narrative of adventures - I was concerned against him in a case of assault and battery once in Norwich. He kept us alive the whole of the evening and of course we staid out late"

                      8.10.1831  "an agreeable dinner at Aders, but Laurent the painter and a Mr Corbould were there so we had not much conversation"

HCR diary 14.5.1820 "called on Mrs Montagu, Barry Cornwall there"

                  10.12.1820 "Hazlitt, Mrs Horace Twiss and Barry Cornwall were at Montagu's and I had a very pleasant lounge there till past 12 o'clock"

                    30.6.1826 Procter "his brother Robert is to take the Dairy - I think it a hazardous speculation"

                    13.1.1829 "Geo: Procter "candidate for presidency of Guernsey College"

                    29.4.1829 shorthand passage re|: Procter's dairy

  HCR diary 21.2.1821 "dining with the Colliers"

                      25.5.1825 Collier at Robinson's party at his chambers along with Masqueriers, Miss Lanes, Miss Nash and Miss Fordham "no one entirely unconnected with the others"

9.8.1825 to 8.10.1825 Robinson's holiday in Switzerland, partly with the Colliers and Esther Nash

                        7.2.1826 saw Mrs Aders on return from John Collier's

                        8.4.1826 Robinson heard at John Collier's a less favourable opinion of Hatton Stansfeld than Aders had given

HCR diary 10.6.1824 Collins RA at Coleridge's party

11.5.1825 at Green's, Lincolns Inn Fields "Collins RA - a very pleasing man as well as an excellent artist"

William John Thomas Collins (DNB 1788-1847)

HCR diary 11.12.1820 at Kings Bench "I procured a place for Mrs Aders among the barristers and she staid several hours" Wright v Cobbett libel case (Morning Chronicle 12.12.1820)

                       8..2.1826 "would have gone to hear Cobbett but deterred by crowd"

William Cobbett (DNB 1763-1835). On 8.2.1826 at Freemason's Tavern and then Lincolns Inn Fields there was a meeting "to bring Mr Cobbett into parliament" (Morning Chronicle 9.2.1826)

HCR diary 6.1.1822 Mrs Basil Montagu "related to me a romantic incident in the life of Mrs Ponsford - She was a painter by profession and painted many years ago a picture of her Mrs A" (Robinson clearly means Mrs M) "and a child - it was entitled "A Widow and her Child". This picture caught the eye of a rich woman - a Mrs Clarke - who was possessed independently of her husband of £15,000 - which she was resolved he should not have. Mrs C: instantly determined to give this £15,000 to the widow - and for that purpose called on the artist Miss Smith.

HCR diary 10.12.1820 Mrs Basil Montagu on Mrs Aders' indiscretions "She knows too that Mrs Aders has visited at Mr Meux's when a woman of infamous character was there, she has been known to cut a stranger in the presence of Carlisle!!"

Crabb Robinson's exclamation marks were probably aimed at Mrs Montagu's thinking it such a sin. Thomas Carlyle (DNB 1795-1881) was a friend of Mrs Montagu's, he referred to her as "the noble lady"