Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2

Note 29 — Chapter II · INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III (Continued):—GROWTH, PROGRESS, AND INTERNAL ECONOMY, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF SIR HENRY ELLIS.

Reading edition

I believe that his earliest contribution consisted of some articles entitled ‘Notes of a Reader,’ published in 1830, in a periodical (long since defunct) called The Spirit of Literature. These were written and printed long before Mr. Watts became a correspondent of the Mechanics’ Magazine, as mentioned in the text.

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