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

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"

HCR diary 18.12.1820 Mrs Aders talking about her father John Raphael Smith "Chantry she says owed evrything to Mr S: It was Smith who discovered him at Sheffield where he was an apprentice to a carver and gilder. S: persuaded his master to allow him time and opportunity to draw. Chantry came to town in extreme poverty - S: gave him money - to make him known S: caused him to make a bust of himself - then introduced him to Horne Tooke and so amde him known.

HCR diary 13.12.1820 after Flaxman's "left this party to join a far less interesting one at the Baldwin's Queen Square - a genteel set" Chalmers, biographer there, no other literary persons

Alexander Chalmers (DNB 1759-1834)

HCR diary 7.2.1821 "went to tea at Aders's - there were there 4 young ladies Miss   daughters of an engraver dressed as smart as dolls and their limbs as stiff. They spoiled the evening for they gave me the company feeling & brought with them none of the company advantages"

                 30.4.1822 "went to Aders - it being Ellen's birthday. The Cardons were there" "I had a little ennuie, not usual in that house"

HCR diary 24.11.1821 at Aders' "a Mr Campe an Elberfelder - an intimate of A's in particular pleased me by his great kindness of manner & amiable countenance without the too frequent accompaniment of want of understanding - he has had a commercial education by residence in England and has now a flourishing establishment at home"

Possibly H W Campe wool merchant at 22 (Little) Bush Lane, Cannon St from 1820 to 1825 (Land Tax, SunFire 1822, Pigot's Directory 1822) but I found no more about him

HCR diary 12.3.1832 "went to Aders - I found several persons there and aqmongst others Thomas Campbell the poet - I was not prepossessed in his favour and he did not gain upon me during the time we chatted, not that he was discourteous - on the contrary he was very civil - or assuming. But I did not like his face or the style or the tone of his conversation"

Thomas Campbell (DNB 1777-1844)