The Length of this list is the measure of my special indebtedness to Miss Louise Kampf, librarian of Coburn Library, Colorado College. With but few exceptions Miss Kampf located, recorded, and secured for my use every book on the list. I am especially indebted to the completeness and accuracy of her records.
With her I include in my thanks Mrs. Eulalia Chapman of the Denver Bibliographical Center.
The literature of the Canning case comprises mainly the following groups of publications. I indicate the American location of the rarer items.
[ #1 ]
Thirteen pamphlets published in London between March and July 1753 (roughly in the order of appearance): A clear state of the case of Elizabeth Canning … by Henry Fielding, 62 pp. 4to, Yale; The Story of Elizabeth Canning considered by Dr. Hill, 53 pp. 4to, Princeton; The truth of the case (anon.), 33 pp. 4to, Yale; The case of Elizabeth Canning fairly stated (anon.), 28 pp. 4to, Princeton; A physical account of the case of Elizabeth Canning … by James Solas Dodd, Surgeon, 52 pp. 4to, Princeton; The truth’s found out at last (anon.), 3 pp. folio, Harvard; The account of Canning and Squires fairly ballanc’d … by a disinterested bystander, 24 pp. 4to, Yale; Canning’s magazine (anon.), 84 pp. 4to, Princeton; The imposture detected (anon.), 54 pp. 4to, Yale; An appeal to the public … by Daniel Cox, M.D., 56 pp. 4to, Princeton; The Inspector inspected … by Philologus, 40 pp. 4to, University of Michigan; A letter to the right honourable the earl of—concerning the affair of Elizabeth Canning. By a clergyman [Allan Ramsay], 56 pp. 4to, Boston Public Library; The controverted hard case (anon.), 32 pp. 4to, Princeton.
[ #2 ]
Twenty-one pamphlets and broadsheets published in London between May and November 1754 (roughly in the order of appearance): Queries relating to E. C.’s case by Sollom Emlyn, broadsheet, Harvard; Queries on the affair of E. C. (anon.), broadsheet, Harvard; Copy of a letter to a friend (anon.), 3 pp. folio, Harvard; A letter from an unhappy young lady (anon.), 5 pp. folio, Yale; A collection of several papers relating to Elizabeth Canning (anon.), 32 pp. 4to, Harvard; Truth triumphant (anon.), 30 pp. 4to, Harvard; Miss Canning and the gypsey (anon.), 27 pp. 4to, Harvard; Some account of the case between Elizabeth Canning, and Mary Squires (anon.), 70 pp. 4to, Harvard; A true narrative of the proceedings (anon.), 54 pp.4to, Harvard; An address to the liverymen … of London, from Sir Crisp Gascoyne, knt., 45 pp. folio, Cleveland Public Library, Harvard (issued in Dublin as An Inquiry of Sir Crisp Gascoyne, knt., 79 pp. 8vo, Yale); A counter-address to the public (anon.), 4 pp. folio, Harvard; A new address diversified (anon.), broadsheet, Harvard; A liveryman’s reply (anon.), 53 pp. 4to, Harvard; The unfortunate maid exemplified (anon.), 28 pp. 4to, Harvard; A full and authentic account of the strange and mysterious affair (anon.), 215 pp. 8vo, Harvard; continued as A full relation of every thing that has happened to Elizabeth Canning, since sentence has been passed upon her (anon.), 72 pp. 8vo, Harvard; A refutation of Sir Crisp Gascoyne’s account of his conduct (anon.), 43 pp. 4to, Harvard Law School; The chronicle of the Canningites and Gipseyites (anon.), 36 pp. 4to, Harvard; Genuine and impartial memoirs (anon.), 293 pp. 12mo, Peabody Institute; Elizabeth Canning … as she stood at the bar, illustrated broadsheet, Harvard; A refutation of Sir Crisp Gascoyne’s address, by Nicholas Crisp and others, 30 plus viii plus 51 pp. folio, Cleveland Public Library, Harvard.
Also contemporary: The Gentleman’s Magazine, 1753, 1754, passim, and August 1773, p. 413; Extract of a letter from a merchant in Boston, London, 1755, illustrated broadsheet, Harvard; The trial of Elizabeth Canning … taken in shorthand by Thomas Gurney and others, London, n.d. [1755?], 201 pp. folio, Cleveland Public Library; Virtue triumphant, or, Elizabeth Canning in America (anon.), “Boston printed, London reprinted,” 1757, 78 pp. 4to, Harvard; Continuation of the complete history of England, by T. Smollett, M.D., London, 1760, Vol. I, pp. 154–7; The Annual Register for the year 1761, p. 179; A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster … by Henry Chamberlain of Hatton-Garden, Esq., London, 1770, pp. 340–1; The Connecticut Courant, No. 444, June 22–9, 1773 (kindly supplied by Mr. James Brewster, Connecticut State Librarian).
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Twenty later accounts: Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, August 14, 1852, #450 new series, pp. 108 ff. Reprinted in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, New York, 1852, pp. 246 ff., and in Blackwood’s Magazine, May 1860, lxxxvii, pp. 581 ff.; Celebrated trials (attributed to George Borrow), London, 1825, Vol. iv, pp. 172 ff.; A complete collection of state trials … compiled by T. B. Howell, London, 1813, Vol. xix, pp. 262–693, 1418; Childers, Hugh: Romantic trials of three centuries, London, New York, Toronto, 1913, pp. 1–37; Caulfield, James: Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons, London, 1820, Vol. iii, pp. 108 ff.; Darton, F. J. Harvey: Alibi pilgrimage, London, n.d. [1936] and The soul of Dorset, Boston and New York, 1922, pp. 204–20; Godden, G. M.: Henry Fielding, London, 1910, pp. 269–75; Jones, B. M.: Henry Fielding, novelist and magistrate, London, n.d. [1933], pp. 227–34; Kenny, Courtney: “The Mystery of Elizabeth Canning” in Law Quarterly Review, 1897, Vol. xiii, pp. 368 ff.; Lang, Andrew: Historical mysteries, New York and London, 1904, pp. 1–30; Machen, Arthur: The Canning wonder, New York, 1926; Notes and Queries, 5th series, II, 27, 75, 117, 216, XI, 484, 509, XII, 30, 76; Paget, John: Paradoxes and puzzles, Edinburgh and London, 1874, pp. 317 ff.; Pearson, Edmund: More studies in murder, New York, 1936, pp. 262 ff.; Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames: A history of the criminal law of England, London, 1883, Vol. I, pp. 423–4; Stiles, Henry: The history of ancient Wethersfield Connecticut, 2 vols., New York, 1904, Vol. I, pp. 689 ff., and passim (erroneous data kindly corrected for me by Marjorie E. Case of the Connecticut State Library); Voltaire, F. M. A.: “Histoire d’Elisabeth Canning, et des Calas” in Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, Paris, 1824, Vol. xxix, pp. 262–6; Waters, W. G.: “Elizabeth Canning, Impostor,” in Lives of twelve bad women, Arthur Vincent ed., Boston, 1897, pp. 205–24; Wellington, Barrett R.: The mystery of Elizabeth Canning, New York, 1940.
[ #5 ]
The manuscript of Elizabeth is missing, with complete notes and full annotated bibliography, is deposited in the Connecticut State Library at Hartford, Connecticut, for the use of scholars. The annotated bibliography, published separately, will be found in University of Colorado Studies, series B, Vol. ii, no. 4.