The Occasional Verse of Richard Steele, ed. Rae Blanchard (Oxford, 1952)
The Englishman: A Political Journal by Richard Steele, ed. Rae Blanchard (Oxford, 1955)
Richard Steele's Periodical Journalism 1714-16, ed. Rae Blanchard (Oxford, 1959)
The Correspondence of Richard Steele, ed. Rae Blanchard (Oxford, 1968 edn) The Plays of Richard Steele, ed. Shirley Strum Kenny (Oxford, 1971) Stepney, George, An Essay upon the Present Interest of England (1701)
The Muses Choice (London, 1750 edn)
Sweeney, Owen, The Quacks, or, Love's the Physician (1705) Swift, Jonathan, The Tripe Club: A Satyr (1706)
Meditations upon a Broomstick and Somewhat Beside (1710)
Mr. C[olli]ns's Discourse of Free-Thinking (1713)
Swift's marginalia on John Macky's Characters of the Court of Britain (1714) ‘An Essay to Restore the Kit-Cat Members to their lost Abilities, for the sake of the LADIES who admire em’, in Letters, Poems and Tales: Amorous, Satyrical, and Gallant. Which passed between several persons of distinction. Now first published from respective originals found in the cabinet of . . . Mrs Anne Long (1718)
On Poetry, A Rhapsody (1733)
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, ed. Temple Scott, 12 vols (London, 1897 edn) including, in vol. 5:
A Short Character of His Excellency Thomas Earl of Wharton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1710)
A Letter of Thanks from My Lord W[harto]n, to the Lord Bishop of S. Asaph, in the Name of the Kit-Cat Club (1712)
The Conduct of the Allies and of the Last Ministry (1712)
The Importance of the Guardian Considered (1713)
The Publick Spirit of the Whigs (1714)
The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis et al., 16 vols (Oxford, 1939-75)
Journal to Stella, ed. Harold Williams, 2 vols (Oxford, 1948)
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams, 5 vols (Oxford, 1965)
The Drapier's Letters to the People of Ireland . . . , ed. Herbert Davis (Oxford, 1965 edn)
The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., ed. David Woolley, 4 vols (Frankfurt and Oxford, 1999-2003)
Tickell, Thomas, Preface to Addison's Works, vol. 1 (1721)
The Poetical Works of Thomas Tickell (1796)
Tonson, Jacob, Jacob Tonson in Ten Letters by and about Him, ed. Sarah
Lewis Carol Clapp (Austin, Tex., 1948)
Tracts on the British Stage 1699-1726 (BL shelfmark 641.e.16)
Trapp, Joseph, The Character and Principles of the Present Set of Whigs (1711) Tutchin, John, The Observator Uffenbach, Zacharias Conrad von, London in 1710, from the Travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, trans. and ed. W. H. Quarrell and Margaret Mare (London, 1934)
Vanbrugh, Sir John: A Short Vindication of ‘The Relapse’ and ‘The Provok'd Wife’ from Immorality and Profaneness, by the Author (1698)
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh, ed. Geoffrey Webb and Bonamy Dobrée, 4 vols including letters in vol. 4 (London, 1927-8)
The Relapse and Other Plays, ed. Brean Hammond (Oxford, 2004) Voltaire, F. M. A. de, ‘18th Letter on The English’, in Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, ed. Louis Moland (Paris, 1877-85) Wagstaffe, William, Character of Richard Steele (1713) Walsh, William, Dialogue Concerning Women (1691)
Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant (1692 and reprinted in Dryden's 1716 Miscellany)
Ward, Edward (Ned), The London Spy (1698), ed. Paul Hyland (East Lansing, Mich., 1993)
The Secret History of the Calves-Head Club (1703)
The History of the London Clubs (1709)
The Secret History of Clubs: particularly the Kit-Cat . . . (1709) Satyrical Reflections Upon Clubs in xxix chapters, vol. 5 (1710), chapter 28 on the Kit-Cat Club The Second Part of the History of London Clubs (pamphlet, BL shelfmark 816.m.19 I-91)
A Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the cities of London and Westminster (1756)
Waters, Edward, The Dublin Spy by Tom Tatler The Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post The (Protestant) Dublin Intelligence (1709)
Wentworth, Thomas, The Wentworth Papers 1705-1739, ed. James J.
Cartwright (London, 1883)
Wilson, Charles [pseud. for Edmund Curll], Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Amours of William Congreve Esq . . . (1730)
Woodward, Josiah, Account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners in England and Ireland (1698)
Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary, The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ed. Lord Wharncliffe, 2 vols (London, 1861)
Manuscripts Bank of England Personal account records and subscription lists (e.g. First, 1694 subscription to the Bank itself)
The Bodleian, Oxford MS Rawl D832 / Eng Hist b.209 f.79 / MS Dep d. 68 / MS Carte 79, f.420 and 80, 81 / MS Dep c. 293 / Don d. 112 / MS Eng Letters c.29 and c.129 / MS Rawl poet 152-3 / MSS Ballard / SC.25, 427 MS Montagu, d.I, f.99 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven The Manchester Papers / Gen MSS Misc - 1672 Item F-2 / Osborn MS
File ‘S’, 14,451 - Various Steele papers / Osborn MS 17,972 / Osborn MS 17,500 / Osborn Shelves c.300 / Osborn MS 15,096 / Im.J637 / w791lgh v.3 / Gen MSS 310, Box 4, folder 137 / Anon., ‘A True Character of the Prince of Wales's Poet’ (1701)
British Library (BL)
The Kit-Cat Club in general: Add MS 40,060 / Add MS 6,321 f.5 / Add MS
21,094 f.140b / Add MS 72,495 Addison: Egerton MS 1971-4 / Add MS 7,058 f.89 / Birch (Thomas) Papers:
Add 4,101(-4,478) / Add MS 61,491-665 / Add MS 61,636A f.58-9 / Add MS 61,653 f.89-155v / Add MSS 61,101-710 / Stowe MSS 227 and 241-2 / Harleian MS 694 / Sloane MS 34,075 Congreve: Add MS 4293 f.54-64 Steele: Add MS 5145 (A-C) / Add MS 61,686-88 / Add MS 32,685 /
Microfilm 494
Tonson: Add MS 28,275-6 / Add MS 21,110 / Add MS 28,887 f.187 / Add
MS 28,893 f.443 / Add MS 32,626 f.2 / Add MS 32,690 f.36 / Add MS 32,992 f.340 / Egerton MS 1,951 / Stowe MS 755 f.35, 155 and 97b / Add MS 61,620 f.26-33b Vanbrugh: Add MS 70,948 / Add MS 19,611-3 / Add MS 19,592-601 / Add
MS 38,056 / Add MS 32,687 and 33,064 Other: Add MS 22,510 / Egerton MS 929 / Add MS 7,121 / Add MS 32,679
/ Add MS 61,619 f.196b-7 / Add MS 32,753 / Egerton MS 921 / Stowe MS 246 / Craggs Papers vol. 1, f.164 / Egerton MS 917 / Egerton MS 2,623 / Add MS 49,360 / Add MS 4,740 f.171 / Add MS 61,641 f.137 / Add MS 32,095 f.410 / Add MS 32,329 f.50 / Add MSS 28,644 / Add MS 61,609 ff.171-3 / Add MS 21, 551 / Add MS 28,875-947 / Add 61,461 f.63 / Add MS 35,854 / Add MS 4,221 / Add MS 22,851 / Add MS 70,501 / Stowe MS 751, f.142 Chatsworth, Derbyshire Papers of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire Columbia University Library, New York Dorset's ‘Book of Entrys Conserning the Knight Harbingers Place: 1688.
And in Rotation to other Things at Court’ (Montgomery Collection, Columbia MS)
Gilbert Collection, Dublin Dublin Castle Improvements, 1710 - MS 195 Herefordshire County Record Office Cowper Box 9, Diary 5, 47-8 Longleat Archives, Wiltshire Longleat MS 393 / Charles Montagu, Duke of Manchester: Correspondence with Prior (HMC 58 Bath MSS III)
National Archives, Kew (NA)
SP 84/230 / SP 105/82 / SP 36/38 f.32 / LC7/2 / PROB 1/61 / PROB 10/7376/6
/ PROB 1/103 / C11/2363/42 / SP 44/348 f.275 / 30/24/20/137 National Portrait Gallery Tonson Papers New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Montague Collection, Boxes 7, 9, 10ff., Bolingbroke, Somers, Steele and Charles Montague Berg Collection (Letters of Congreve, Tonson, etc.) Nottingham University Library Portland Papers
Rousham House, Oxfordshire
Papers of John and James Dormer Trinity College Dublin MSS of Archbishop King
LIST OF MEMBERS
The following are the fifty-five men who, in the view of this author, are the most likely members of the Kit-Cat Club, listed by date of birth and with their titles at the time of their deaths. For a detailed explanation of reasons for inclusion and exclusion, and for additional information about the more minor figures who barely feature
in this book, please see the author's website, www.opheliafield.com.
John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery (1639–1713)
Thomas Hopkins (c. 1641–1720)
Col. John Tidcomb (1642–1713)
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1643–1706)
Thomas Wharton, 5th Baron and 1st Marquess of Wharton (1648–1715)
John Somers, Baron Somers of Evesham (1651–1716)
John Smith (1655–1723)
Jacob Tonson (1656–1736)
Sir Henry Furnese, 1st Baronet (1658–1712)
Charles Montagu, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Manchester (1660/1–1722)
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715)
Sir Samuel Garth (1661–1719)
William Walsh (1662–1708)
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662–1748)
George Stepney (1663–1707)
Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726)
Charles Dartiquenave (1664–1737)
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston (c.1665–1726)
Richard Norton (c. 1666–1732)
Anthony Henley (1667–1711)
Arthur Maynwaring (1668–1712)
Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton (1669–1725)
Abraham Stanyan (c. 1669–1732)
Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (1669–1738)
John Dormer (1669–1719) and/or James Dormer (1679–1741)
Algernon Capel, 2nd Earl of Essex (1670–1710)
William Congreve (1670–1729)
Richard Topham (1671–1730)
Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
Charles Lenox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lenox (1672–1723)
Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729)
Gen. James Stanhope, 1st Earl of Stanhope (1673–1721)
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (1673–1729)
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673/4–1743)
Charles, 4th Baron Mohun (c. 1675–1712)
Charles, 4th Baron Cornwallis (1675–1722)
Edward Hopkins (1675–1736)
Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon (1675–1740)
Sir Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham (1675–1749)
Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745)
Edmund Dunch (c. 1677–1719)
Francis, 2nd Earl of Godolphin (1678–1766)
James, 3rd Earl of Berkeley (1680–1736)
Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Grafton (1683–1757)
Henry Fiennes-Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln (1684–1728)
Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough (1684–1740)
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (1684–1764)
John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690–1749)
Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688–1765)
Thomas Holles-Pelham, Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle (1693/4–1768)
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1695–1753)
Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon (1696–1746)
Major-General John Shrimpton (?–1707)
John Vandom[e] (dates unknown)
INDEX
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Abell, John 132
Absalom and Achitophel (Dryden) 4
‘Account of the Greatest English Poets’ (Addison) 30
Act for the more effective suppressing of Atheism, Blasphemy and Prophaneness(1698) 64
Act of Security (1703) 163
Act of Settlement (1701) 97–8, 109, 251, 300, 395
Act of Union (1707) 164–7, 169, 176, 202, 204, 345, 395
Adam, Robert 6
Adam Street (club) 375
Addison, Lancelot, Dean of Lichfield 28–9
Addison, Dorothy 189
Addison, Gulston 228, 278
Addison, Joseph:
GENERAL: academic career 30
allied to Court faction 331
on Almanza debate 180
appearance 28
background 28, 31, 71
biographies 382, 385, 387–8
birth of daughter 327, 348
Blenheim visit 280
business scheme 238
on Caesar's Commentaries 279
Christianity 346
condemnation of torture 214
and Congreve 30, 88, 179, 204
and Copyright Act 230
courtship of Countess of Warwick 129, 171, 187–8, 326
death and funeral 347–8
dislike of opera 137
drinking and eating 123, 124, 125–6, 332
on Dryden 249
education 27, 29
on The Englishman 292
European travels 88–9, 91–3, 95, 105, 108, 109, 121–3
financial situation 243, 272, 278, 326
friendship with Steele 27, 28, 31, 71, 128–9, 148, 169–70, 189, 192, 204, 240, 263–4, 283–5, 292, 293, 295, 298, 327, 350
friendships 202, 212, 264
gardening interests 126
in Hanover delegation 158–60, 167
on Harley's resignation 179, 180
holds court at Button's Coffee House 277–8, 293
homes 122, 187, 278, 326
ill health 343, 344, 346
on illegitimacy 72
and impeachment of Sacheverell 224
incapacity for public speaking 123, 208, 283–4, 304, 331–2
on Ireland 204, 210–11
and Jacobites 181–2, 322
Kit-Cat Club member xiii, 123, 124, 127, 151
on Kit-Cat Club 56, 112
legacy and literary reputation 381–2, 385, 387–8, 390, 395
literary executor of 348
and Manchester 105
marriage 326–7, 346
on marriage 325, 326
and Montagu 30, 87, 88
papers destroyed xiv
patriotism 91, 128
patronage 212, 277, 348
patrons 30, 105, 109, 121–3, 128, 129–30, 155, 200, 316, 322–3, 348
on periwigs 171
personality 123, 151, 200, 202, 265, 266, 277, 347, 386
politics 30
and Pope 289, 294
portrait 266
on private musical performances 184
relative merits of Addison and Steele 384
rift with Steele 344–6, 385
on satire 240
on Somers 395
and Somerset 122–3
and Stanhope 331
and Stepney's death 177
and Swift 202–3, 216, 217, 235–7, 238–9, 289
and Tonson 332
and Union 163, 164–6
and Wharton 182, 200, 202–3, 208, 238, 239
will 348
POLITICAL CAREER 200
Commissioner of Trade 321, 326
Irish MP 208
Irish Secretary 190, 199–201, 205–8, 211, 214–16, 226, 237, 272, 305, 396
Member of Parliament 182, 223, 235, 291
retirement 343
Secretary to The Lords Regents 302–4, 305, 347
Secretary of State for the South 331, 343, 346, 348
sinecures 127, 129, 227–8, 272
Under-Secretary in Southern Office 155
WRITINGS AND LITERARY WORK xv, 35, 70, 109, 122
anonymous writings 344
Cato (play) 286–9, 340, 345, 385
classical translations 330
collaboration with Steele 148, 197–8, 226, 230, 242–6, 263–5, 285, 293, 298
Collected Works edited by Tickell 348, 349
The Drummer (play) 325, 349
elegy for Queen Mary 27
Epilogue for ‘Censorium’ 317
essays 92, 125, 157, 170, 235, 387
‘The Folly of Seeking Fame’ 87
The Freeholder 321, 322, 323, 329
&n
bsp; The Freethinker 343
‘Gluttony of a modern Meal’ 126
Guardian contributions 285
introduction to Dryden's Virgil 51
Italian travel journal 109, 122, 124
libretto for Rosamund 166–9, 258
Medley contributions 234
‘middling’
style of 256, 387
The Old Whig 344–5, 348
poetry 30, 105, 127–30
The Present State of the War 181
prose style 383, 387
A Sketch Upon Friendship 342–3
Tatler contributions 226, 240, 264
tragedy on death of Socrates 346
Whig propaganda 234, 282, 343–6
see also Spectator
Advice to the Electors of Great Britain (Maynwaring and Sarah Churchill) 181
Aikin, Lucy 385
Almanza, Battle of 180
Amendments of Mr Collier's False and Imperfect Citations (Congreve) 68
Amsterdam 158–9
Anglo-Dutch alliance 25, 46, 48, 95
Anne, Queen 117, 136, 295
assumes throne 106–7, 112
and Blenheim bills 280
Cabinet of 180, 182, 291
coronation 157
death 300, 301, 302
declining health 274, 275, 292, 295, 299–300, 314
and Devonshire 188
dislike of Wharton 107, 200, 201
dissolves Parliament 232
funeral 303
and Grand Alliance 108–9
and Harley's resignation 179–80
moral reformation led by 135
musical interests 131, 133
orders mission to Hanover 158–60
as Princess Anne 24, 26, 94, 97
and Queen's Theatre 138, 140, 141, 183–4
and religion 107, 139–40, 209
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