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Harriet Martineau, recalling acquaintances of her youth: 'Mr. Hallam one day called, when, as it was the first day of the month, my table was spread with new periodicals, sent me by publishers. I was not in the room when Mr. Hallam entered; and I found him with the "Monthly Repository" in his hands, turning over the pages. He pointed to the Editor's name (Mr. Fox) on the cover, and asked me some questions about him. After turning over, and remarking upon a few others, he sat down for a chat.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Hallam Print: Serial / periodical
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'[The eldest Hallam daughter] died [...] while her mother was reading to her. She exclaimed "Stop!" and was dead within five minutes'.
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Rene Descartes :
'My father said of his friend: "Arthur Hallam could take in the most abstruse ideas with the utmost rapidity and insight [...] On one occasion, I remember, he mastered a difficult book of Descartes at a single sitting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
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Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830: 'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of the Forest [...] I have been studious too, partly after my fashion, and partly after my father [historian Henry Hallam]'s; i.e. I read six books of Herodotus with him, and I take occasional plunges into David Hartley, and Buhle's Philosophie Moderne for my own gratification.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
Buhle : Philosophie Moderne
Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830: 'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of the Forest [...] I have been studious too, partly after my fashion, and partly after my father [historian Henry Hallam]'s; i.e. I read six books of Herodotus with him, and I take occasional plunges into David Hartley, and Buhle's Philosophie Moderne for my own gratification.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
Susan Ferrier : Destiny
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
Susan Ferrier : Inheritance
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings, "listening all day to the song of the larks on the cliffs," and reading Destiny and Inheritance.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
Sir William Blackstone :
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like "forestal."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
Jane Austen : Emma
'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [Tennyson] poetic words like "forestal" [...] The friends exchanged thoughts on the political state of the world [...] Miss Austen's novels were read and compared. My father preferred Emma and Persuasion, and Hallam wrote, "Emma is my first love, and I intend to be constant. The edge of this constancy will soon be tried, for I am promised the reading of Pride and Prejudice."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
Mrs Jameson : Characteristics
Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson: 'I have been reading Mrs Jameson's Characteristics, and I am so bewildered with similes about groves and violets, and streams of music, and incense and attar of roses, that I hardly know what I write. Bating these little flummeries of style, it is a good book, showing much appreciation of Shakespeare and the human heart'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam
Henry Hallam to Alfred Tennyson, on reading In Memoriam: 'I know not how to express what I have felt [...] I do not speak as another would to praise and admire: few of them [the poems] indeed I have as yet been capable of reading, the grief they express is too much akin to that they revive. It is better than any monument which could be raised to the memory of my beloved son [Arthur Henry Hallam, to whose death the poems were Tennyson's response], it is a more lively and enduring testimony to his great virtues and talents that the world should know the friendship which existed between you, that posterity should associate his name with that of Alfred Tennyson.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Hallam Print: Book
Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution
From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'During our cruise [on The Sunbeam, Lord Brassey's yacht] my father drew upon his wonderful memory for some of his endless stories: Of [mentions various stories] [...] Of Hallam (the historian) saying to him, "I have tried to read Carlyle's French Revolution, but cannot get on, the style is so abominable."'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Hallam Print: Book
George Grote : A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)
Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846: 'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "History" -- namely, that the avocations of London at the one time, and a tour on the Continent afterwards, gave me no leisure till lately to do more than look cursorily at one volume. I have now had the pleasure of going through it, and cannot refuse myself that also of telling you how greatly I admire your work, and of congratulating you on the very high place it entitles you to take among living historians [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Hallam Print: Book
George Grote : A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)
Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846: 'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "History" -- namely, that the avocations of London at the one time, and a tour on the Continent afterwards, gave me no leisure till lately to do more than look cursorily at one volume. I have now had the pleasure of going through it, and cannot refuse myself that also of telling you how greatly I admire your work, and of congratulating you on the very high place it entitles you to take among living historians [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Hallam Print: Book
Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: "Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout." Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. "It is a cordial," he said, "which has saved Lady Glenbervie's life." Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had not rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimation of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, "Very good to be sure, but what powerful writing is [italics]thrown away[end italics]."' '
