Leeds Correspondent

The Leeds Correspondent was an English literary and philosophical biannual journal of the early 19th century. It was printed and published at Leeds by James Nichols, and appeared from 1814 to 1823. It was noted for a strong emphasis on mathematics.^[1] It was also an example of efforts by Nichols and others to see that the economic growth of Leeds should be reflected by "the emergence of locally produced literary periodicals, in conscious imitation of the national quarterlies".^[2]

History

Nichols edited the literary matter of the Leeds Correspondent.^[3] Its first mathematical editor was John Ryley (1747–1815);^[4] he was the headmaster of the Leeds bluecoat school.^[5] He was succeeded by John Gawthorp of Leeds, and then John Whitley of Masbrough who took over when Gawthorp fell ill.^[6][7] Gawthorp, who ran a Lancasterian school in Leeds, died in 1817.^[8] Contributors included:

• John Butterworth of Haggate (1774–1845)^[3]
• Jonathan Crowther^[9]
• Thomas Stephens Davies^[10]
• Thomas Gaskin^[11]
• Joseph Hine of Tyldesley^[12]
• John Kay of Royton (1781–1824), a pupil of Butterworth^[13][14]
• William Marrat^[15]
• Anthony Nesbit^[16]
• John Henry Swale of Liverpool (1775–1837)^[17][18]
• Mary West of Guisborough, sister of the Wesleyan minister Francis Athow West, teacher of a girl's school in Westgate, Guisborough.^[9][19]

The Correspondent had London distribution from 1818 through Baldwin, Cradock & Joy.^[20] It appeared in five volumes.^{[21][22][23][24][25][26]}

Notes

1. Manogue, Ralph A. "Nichols, James (1785–1861)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20117. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
2. Morgan, Simon (26 January 2007). A Victorian Woman's Place: Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-85771-773-3.
3. The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette. Vol. 36. BiblioBazaar. 1848. pp. 377–379. ISBN 978-1-347-61485-3.
4. Taylor, Richard Vickerman (1865). The biographia Leodiensis; or, Biographical sketches of the worthies of Leeds and neighbourhood. [With]. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. pp. 262–264.
5. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Ryley, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
6. Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Enigneering, Agricultural Machinery, Manufacturing, and Shipbuilding. Knight and Lacey. 1848. p. 203.
7. Ryley, John; Gawthorp, John; Whitley, John (1821). The Leeds Correspondent. James Nichols. p. v.
8. "Died". Leeds Mercury. 11 January 1817. p. 3.
9. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine. 1878. pp. 44–45.
10. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Davies, Thomas Stephens" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
11. Ryley, John; Gawthorp, John; Whitley, John, eds. (1818). The Leeds Correspondent. Vol. II. James Nichols. p. 264.
12. Rose, Josiah, ed. (1881). Lancashire and Cheshire Historical & Genealogical Notes. Vol. II. Leigh: Printed at the Chronicle Office. p. 215.
13. Ryley, John, ed. (1815). The Leeds Correspondent. Vol. I. James Nichols.
14. Royton Industrial Co-operative Society Limited: History of the Society's Formation and Progress. Longsight: Co-operative Wholesale Society's Printing Works. 1907. pp. 118–119.
15. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). "Marrat, William" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
16. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Nesbit, Anthony" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 40. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
17. Mechanics magazine: museum, register, journal, and gazette. 1852. pp. 208–209.
18. Beeley, Philip; Hollings, Christopher (2024). Beyond the Learned Academy: The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850. Oxford University Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-19-886395-3.
19. Baines, Edward (1823). History, Directory & Gazetteer, of the County of York. p. 445.
20. Power, John (1978). Provincial Printing and Publishing in Great Britain. K. Books. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-85963-026-9.
21. Ward, William S. (15 July 2014). Index and Finding List of Serials Published in the British Isles, 1789–1832. University Press of Kentucky. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-8131-6487-8.
22. Ryley, John, ed. (1815). The Leeds Correspondent. Vol. I. James Nichols.
23. Ryley, John; Gawthorp, John; Whitley, John, eds. (1818). The Leeds Correspondent. Vol. II. James Nichols.
24. Whitley, John, ed. (23 July 2017). The Leeds Correspondent, 1819-1821. Vol. III. Fb&c Limited. ISBN 978-0-282-50658-2.
25. Whitley, John, ed. (1822). The Leeds Correspondent. Vol. IV and V.
26. The Leeds Correspondent: A Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Miscellany. Vol. V. J. Nichols. 1823.