Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine,
1731-1868: An Electronic Union List
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin
Volume 36 (1766)
- 36 (1766): 9-14.
A: "The Oracle. A Story from the Greek."
John Hawkesworth [?].
[Abbott 82: 215, n. 32]
- 36 (1766): 19-22.
R: Elizabeth Griffith's The Double Mistake.
John Hawkesworth [?].
[Abbott 82: 213, n. 12]
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36
(1766)
24-25
L
"A new Species of Sparrows described."
Rev. Joseph Mills.
Orig. "J.M."; dated Cowbit, Lincs., whence Mills had corresponded with the GM in 1765
- 36 (1766): 73-76. A:
"Extract of a Letter from Dr Kearsley to Mr P[eter] Collinson; dated
Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1735 ['On the fascinating Power of the Rattle Snake';
'Remark on the Small-pox']."
Dr. John Kearsley.
[Authorship disclosed in title]
- 36 (1766): 118-121. A:
"Letter from the late Dr Stukely, to Mr Peter Collinson, F.R.S.
giving an Account of several British Antiquities lately found near Chateris, in
the isle of Ely."
Rev. William Stukeley.
[Authorship disclosed in title]
- 36 (1766): 124-128.
R: George Colman's and David Garrick's The Clandestine
Marriage.
John Hawkesworth.
[Abbott 82: 210, n. 19]
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36
(1766)
160
L
"Foul Salt its use."
David Henry.
Orig. "D.Y."
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36
(1766)
175-177
L
"Improvements in Husbandry; addressed to the curious."
David Henry.
Orig. "D.Y."
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36
(1766)
186
L
"Custom of April Fool making."
Rev. Samuel Pegge the Elder.
GM 66-ii (1796): 982 Orig. "T. Row"
- 36 (1766): 187. V:
"The Sheep and the Bramble-Bush: From Mr Cunningham's Poems [Poems,
chiefly Pastoral]."
John Cunningham.
[Watt 1: 276]
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36
(1766)
188-189
V
"To Miss Whately on her Poems."
B. Fowler.
Orig. "B.F."; dated Shipston on Stour, Worcs., whence Fowler corresponded with the GM in 1766
- 36 (1766): 189. V:
"Content. A Pastoral. From Poems, chiefly Pastoral, by J.
Cunningham."
John Cunningham.
[Watt 1: 276]
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36
(1766)
203-204
A
"Some Account of the Life and Writings of the late Bishop of St.
Davids [Samuel Squire]."
Rev. William Dodd [?].
Illust. 5: 766
- 36 (1766): 212-217.
A: "An Account of the Life and Writings of George
Buchanan; Extracted from the French of M. Le Clerc."
John Hawkesworth [?].
[Abbott 82: 216, n. 32]
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36
(1766)
235
V
"To Clio, occasioned by her verses on
Friendship."
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
GM 36 (1766): 202 lists author as "Lady Mary . . . Wortley M---gue." Orig. "Lady Mary W. M."
- 36 (1766): 235. V:
"Epitaph on Mr [James] Quin. Written by Mr Garrick."
David Garrick.
[Authorship disclosed in title]
- 36 (1766): 255.
R: John Hawkesworth's Some Account of the Letters written
by the late Dean Swift.
John Hawkesworth.
[Tierney 69-70]
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36
(1766)
260
L
"Conjecture concerning the real Name of Robin Hood."
Rev. Samuel Pegge the Elder.
GM 66-ii (1796): 982 Orig. "T. Row"
- 36 (1766): 278-280. A:
"On the Introduction of Rice and Tar in our Colonies."
Peter Collinson.
[Orig. "P. Collinson"]
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36
(1766)
282
L
"Nidus of an unknown Insect."
David Henry.
Orig. "D.Y."
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36
(1766)
301
L
"Papers concerning the Spanish trade in Jamaica" enc.
David Henry [?].
Orig. "Y.D."
- 36 (1766): 329.
V: Trans. of Latin verses printed in The Adventurer, No. 89
("From these attempts, to all around, to give").
William Markham, Archbishop of York.
[Sherbo 84: 231]
- 36 (1766): 333-334.
R: Alexander Gerrard's Dissertations on subjects relating
to the genius and the evidences of Christianity.
John Hawkesworth.
[Tierney 70]
- 36 (1766): 378. V:
"Ode to Contentment ['Contentment! ever blooming maid!']."
Rev. Sir Henry Bate Dudley (originally Henry Bate).
[Orig. "H. Bate"; dated Prittlewell, Essex, approximately 8 miles south of North Fambridge, where Henry Bate the Elder and his son, who later adopted the name Henry Bate Dudley, served successively as rectors; content is suggestive of a young man and refers to the pleasures of London life in which the younger Henry Bate delighted.]
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36
(1766)
408
L
"A remarkable great Ash Tree [in the churchyard of
Lochebar]."
Peter Collinson.
Orig. "P.C."; refers to Collinson's signed article in 36 (1766): 321 re a large chestnut tree
- 36 (1766): 429. V:
"[Latin] Verses found hanging up on a Tablet in the Temple of Venus, in
Lord Jersey's [i.e., William Villiers, 3rd Earl of Jersey's] Wood, at Middleton
Stoney; by Mr Whitehead ['Quisquis es, O Juvenis']."
William Whitehead.
[Authorship disclosed in title]
- 36 (1766): 482. V:
"Verses on reading Miss [Elizabeth] Carter's Poems, by the Rev. Mr Wise,
Author of a Poem on Providence ['Fair celestial, found below']."
Rev. Joseph Wise.
[Watt 2: 976]
- 36 (1766): 505-506. A:
"Letter to Mr [J.] Platt, in answer to the foregoing [i.e., Platt's
'Letter to Peter Collinson Esq; FRS. on the Webbs in plowed Land, and darting of
Spiders']."
Peter Collinson.
[Authorship disclosed in Platt's letter; Orig. "P.C."]
- 36 (1766): 529-531. L:
"Remarks on [Du] Perron's Account of the Perses [Letter I]."
Richard Yate.
[Orig. "R. Yate"]
- 36 (1766): 540. V:
"The Philosopher and Glow worm. A Fable. By the Rev. H. Bate,
Junior."
Rev. Sir Henry Bate Dudley (originally Henry Bate).
[Orig. "Rev. H. Bate, Junior"; dated Prittlewell, Essex, 8 miles south of North Fambridge, where Henry Bate the Elder and his son, who later adopted the name Henry Bate Dudley, served successively as rectors]
- 36 (1766): 558-560.
L: "Oriental Fables; from the French."
John Hawkesworth.
[Abbott 82: 216, n. 32]
-
36
(1766)
569-570
A
"The Metempsychosis Illustrated."
Rev. Samuel Pegge the Elder.
GM 66-ii (1796): 982 Orig. "T. Row"
- 36 (1766): 588. V:
"The Kite and Nightingale A Fable. By the Rev. Mr Wise."
Rev. Joseph Wise.
[Authorship disclosed in title]
- 36 (1766): 590. V:
"Epilogue written by Mr Garrick, spoken by Mrs [Mary Ann] Yates
['Exhausted quite with prisons, racks and death']."
David Garrick.
[Authorship disclosed in title]
- 36 (1766): 591.
R: David Garrick's Neck or nothing.
John Hawkesworth.
[Abbott 82: 210, n. 19]