This bibliography is based on A Checklist of the Principal Publications of Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, compiled by Andrew F. Wilson and published in 1985, together with Mr. Wilson’s unpublished document, A Checklist of the Principal Publications of H. D. Rawnsley, Additional Items (July 2018).  A number of additions and amendments have been made to these two documents.

1892

‘At the Bishop’s Grave’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (January 1892). [Poem]

‘A Traveller’s Tale’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 2 January 1892, p. 5. [Poem]

‘The Dead Prince. Jan. 14, 1892’, Pall Mall Gazette, 15 January 1892, p. 1. [Poem]

‘The Crown of Tears. St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, 20th January, 1892’, Pall Mall Gazette, Literary Supplement, 28 January 1892. [Poem]

‘The Crown of Tears’, Reading Mercury, 30 January 1892, p. 2. [Poem]

‘The Dead Prince. Jan. 14th, 1892’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (February 1892). [Poem]

‘The Warrior’s Funeral Hymn: In Memoriam Charles Haddon Spurgeon’, Christian World Pulpit, 41 (17 February 1892), 99. [Hymn]

‘In Memoriam: Mrs Attlee, who died in mission work on Mount Olivet, February, 1892’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 20 February 1892, p. 5. [Poem]

‘The Crown of Tears. St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, 20th January, 1892’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (March 1892). [Poem]

‘A Ballad of Port Blair’, Atalanta, 5 (March 1892), 332-3. [Poem]

‘The Bitter Cry of Brer Rabbit’, Cornhill Magazine, 18 (May 1892), 541-3. [Poem]

‘The First Swallow’, Nature Notes, 3 (May 1892), 92. [Poem]

‘The First Swallow’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (May 1892). [Poem]

‘Hymn Written for the Occasion of the Opening of the Mary Hewetson Cottage Hospital, August 9th’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (September 1892).

[Death of Miss Walker of Portinscale], English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 22 October 1892, p. 5. [Poem]

‘What Shall We Do With Our Scholars?’ Nature Notes, 3 (November 1892), 210-12.

‘Well Done, ‘Calliope’!’ Atalanta, 6 (November 1892), 130-1. [Poem]

 ‘Leaving Aldworth: Oct. 11, 1892’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 152 (November 1892), 768. [Poem]

‘The Uppingham Nettleship Memorial Fund’, Times, 12 November 1892, p. 10. [Letter]

‘Footpath Legislation’, Times, 29 November 1892, p. 14. [Letter]

‘Hymn in Memory of Mary Walker’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (November 1892).

‘Hymn in Memory of Lord Tennyson’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (November 1892).

‘The Laureate Dead’, Academy, (November 1892). [Poem]

‘The Laureate Dead’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (November 1892). [Poem]

‘The Laureate Dead’, Living Age, 195 (17 December 1892), 706. [Poem]

‘In Memory of the Old Folks Passed Away’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 31 December 1892, p. 5. [Poem]

‘The Story of Gough and His Dog’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Association for the Advancement of Literature and Science, 16 (1892), 95-124.

Notes for the Nile together with a Metrical Rendering of the Hymns of Ancient Egypt and of the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep (the Oldest Book in the World) (London, 1892).

St. Kentigern and St. Herbert: Six Addresses Delivered in St. Kentigern’s Church, Crosthwaite (Keswick, 1892).

The Story of Gough and His Gog on Helvellyn (Carlisle, 1892).

The Undoing of De Harcla: A Ballad of Cumberland (London, 1892).

1893

‘In Memory of the Old Folks Passed Away’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (January 1893). [Poem]

‘Richard Lewis Nettleship: In Memoriam’, Good Words, 34 (January 1893), 55-58.

‘In Memoriam: Joe Cape, the Clogger’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (March 1893). [Poem]

‘Hymn for the Occasion of the Re-Opening of the Church of St. John’s in the Vale’, 1st September 1893’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (September 1893).

‘Hymn for the Occasion of the Royal Marriage’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (July 1893)

‘The Heroes of Rhondda Vale’, Pall Mall Magazine, 1 (September 1893), 773-80. [Poem]

‘The Kingdom of God and the Coal Strike: Sermon preached by the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley in Crosthwaite Church on 10th September, 1893’, West Cumberland Times, 16 September 1893, p. 2.

‘In Memoriam: Robert Slack’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (October 1893). [Poem]

‘O Aged Head! O Never Aging Face!’ Academy, (circa October 1893).

‘The Gospel and Suicide: Sermon preached by the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley in Crosthwaite Church on August 27, 1893’, Christian World Pulpit, 44 (4 October 1893), 212-15.

‘The Master of Balliol: A Memory’, Academy, 64 (7 October 1893), 294. [Poem]

‘The Rev. H. D. Rawnsley on Harvest Festivals: Sermon preached at Crosthwaite Church on 1st October, 1893’, West Cumberland Times, 7 October 1893, p. 7.

‘Wordsworth’s Rooms at Cambridge’, Westminster Budget, 2 (November 1893), 12.

‘O Aged Head! O Never Aging Face!’ Dial, 15 (1 November 1893), 253. [Poem]

‘The Master of Balliol: A Memory’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (November 1893). [Poem]

‘The Master of Balliol: A Memory’, Dial, 15 (1 November 1893), 253. [Poem]

‘Poet’s Death-Chamber’, Dial, 15 (1 November 1893), 253. [Poem]

‘John Greenleaf Whittier’, Dial, 15 (1 November 1893), 267. [Poem]

‘My Feathered Lady’, Nature Notes, 4 (December 1893), 225-7. [Poem]

‘Memories of the Master of Balliol’, Cornhill Magazine, 21 (December 1893), 586-99.

‘Memories of the Master of Balliol’, Living Age, 199 (December 1893), 816-24.

‘Some Present-Day Cruelties: A Trumpet of Alarm’, Christian World Pulpit, 44 (20 December 1893), 225-7.

‘To the President of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 12 (1893), 270-1.

Practical Guide to the English Lake District, by Henry Irwin Jenkinson, seventh edition, (London, 1893).

Christian Aspects of Manliness, An Address Delivered at the Annual Conference of the North-Western District Union of Young men’s Christian Associations held at Keswick, Sept 28th, 1893 (Keswick, 1893).

Valete: Tennyson and other Memorial Poems (Glasgow, 1893).

1894

‘Now let the ocean wanderers, going free’, Lakes Herald, 5 January 1894, p. 4. [Poem]

‘“Christus Imperator!” The Universal Empire of Christianity in the Light of Evolution: V—Christ in the Realm of Art’, Sermon Preached in St. Bridget’s Church, Bagot Street, on Sunday Evening, December 3rd, 1893’, Liverpool Pulpit, 3 (January 1894), 3-9. 

‘Hymn for St. Kentigern’s Day’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine’, (February 1894)

‘We ask for those unresting thousands, rest’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (May 1894).

‘My Friend the Starling’, Nature Notes, 5 (May 1894), 89. [Poem]

‘John Greenleaf Whittier’, Critic, 21 (23 June 1894), 422. [Poem]

‘The Haunted Oak of Nannau’, Pall Mall Magazine, 3 (July 1894), 353-61. [Poem]

[Prayer, beginning ‘God of all power and might’], English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 13 October 1894, p. 5.

‘To Sir John Harwood’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 13 October 1894, p. 5.

‘To the Promoters and Builders of the Thirlmere Waterworks’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 13 October 1894, p. 5.

‘To the Workmen’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 13 October 1894, p. 5.

‘Thirlmere: Loss and Gain’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 13 October 1894, p. 5.

‘Matthew Arnold: In Laleham Churchyard, April 1888’, Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, 27 October 1894, p. 27. [Poem]

‘Thirlmere: Loss and Gain’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (November 1894)

‘Snowden’, Times, 6 November 1894, p. 8. [Letter]

‘The Proposed Railway Up Snowden’, North Wales Chronicle, 10 November 1894, p. 5.

‘The Wild Birds’ Protection Amendment Act’, Times, 28 November 1894, p. 14. [Letter]

‘An Incident of the Floods in Picton-Street’, Western Daily Press, 11 December 1894, p. 5. [Poem]

‘An Incident of the Floods in Picton-Street’, Mid Sussex Times, 18 December 1894, p. 2. [Poem]

‘An Incident of the Floods in Picton-Street’, Bognor Regis Observer, 19 December 1894, p. 7. [Poem]

‘The New Wild Birds’ Protection Act’, Nature Notes, 5 (December 1894), 221-4.

‘The Great Tapestry in Exeter College Chapel, Oxford’, Magazine of Art, 17 (1894), 284-7.

Idylls and Lyrics of the Nile (London, 1894).

Literary Associations of the English Lakes, Two volumes, (Glasgow, 1894).

1895

‘The New Year’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (January 1895). [Poem]

‘Skating on Derwentwater’, Westminster Gazette, 22 January 1895, p. 5. [Telegram]

‘To the Electors of the Keswick Division of the County of Cumberland’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 2 March 1895, p. 4. [Letter]

‘To the Electors of the Keswick Division of the County of Cumberland’, West Cumberland Times, 2 March 1895, p. 4. [Letter]

‘To the Electors of the Keswick Division of the County of Cumberland’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 9 March 1895, p. 4. [Letter]

‘To the Electors of the Keswick Division of the County of Cumberland’, West Cumberland Times, 9 March 1895, p. 4. [Letter]

‘Joseph, the Gentle-Hearted. Sermon by the Rev Canon Rawnsley on Tender-Heartedness’, West Cumberland Times, 30 March 1895, p. 3.

‘Heaven’s Glory and Earth’s Peace’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (April 1895). [Poem]

‘When Spring and the Throstle Come Back from the Sea’, Nature Notes, 6 (April 1895), 66. [Poem]

‘Wild Bird Protection’, Times, 16 April 1895, p. 11. [Letter]

‘The Children are Singing in Kendal Town’, Lakes Herald, 3 May 1895, p. 4. [Poem]

‘A May Song’, West Cumberland Times, 11 May 1895, p. 2. [Poem]

‘On Hearing of the Death of Alice Grisdale’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (June 1895). [Poem]

‘In Memoriam: Henry Hewetson’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (July 1895). [Poem]

‘The Passion Play at Selzach’, Times, 12 July 1895, p. 5. [Letter]

‘A Wordsworth Fountain’, Times, 31 July 1895, p. 9.

‘To the Memory of Martha Harrison’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (August 1895). [Poem]

‘A Welcome to the Kaiser at Dunmail Raise’, Penrith Observer, 20 August 1895, p. 5. [Poem]

‘The Scientific and Humane Slaughter of Cattle’, Cumberland and Westmorland Herald, 31 August 1895, p. 7. [Letter]

‘A Welcome to the Kaiser at Dunmail Raise’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (September 1895). [Poem]

‘God’s Children’, Christian World Pulpit, 48 (4 September 1895), 155-6.

‘The Fall of Foyers – Mr. Ruskin’s Opinion’, Times, 16 September 1895, p. 5. [Letter]

‘Must Foyers fail, its thunders sound no more’, Nature Notes, 6 (October 1895), 190-1. [Poem]

‘The Fall of Foyers’, Manchester Courier, 1 October 1895, p. 8. [Letter]

‘Canon Rawnsley and the Fall of Foyers’, Lakes Herald, 4 October 1895, p. 5. [Letter]

‘The Fall of Foyers’, Times, 17 October 1895, p. 12. [Letter with J. Bryce]

‘To the Memory of Bishop Chauncy Maples’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (November 1895). [Poem]

‘The Village of Perfect Health, Leysin-sur-Aigle’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 158 (November 1895), 680-4.

‘Co-Education or a Dual School of the Higher Grade for Keswick’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 16 November 1895, p. 5.

‘The Trinity Almshouses or Hospital’, Times, 26 November 1895, p. 7. [Letter]  

‘The Sty Head Pass Road: Canon Rawnsley and the County Surveyor’, Carlisle Patriot, 15 November 1895, p. 5. [Letter]

‘The Rhyme of the Keswick Old Folks’ Dinner, 1895’, English Lakes Visitor and Keswick Guardian, 28 December 1895, p. 4. [Poem]

Manning the Wall: A Temperance Sermon Preached in St. John’s Church, Keswick, Wednesday, February 13th, 1895 (Keswick, 1895).

1896

‘To England and America’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (January 1896). [Poem]

‘A New Year’s Greetings’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (January 1896). [Poem]

‘To England and America’, Christian World Pulpit, 49 (1 January 1896), 11. [Poem]

‘The Eagles’ Cry to Our County Councillors’, Times, 2 January 1896, p. 11. [Letter]

‘England and Armenia’, Speaker, 4 January 1896, p. 19. [Letter]

‘England and Armenia’, New York Times, 20 January 1896, p. 4. [Letter]

‘At the Funeral of Prince Henry of Battenberg, 5th February, 1896’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (March 1896). [Poem]

‘To the Honour of Trooper Frank William Baxter’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (May 1896). [Poem]

‘Lord Leighton’s House’, Times, 29 April 1896, p. 12. [Letter]

‘Lord Leighton’s House’, Times, 30 April 1896, p. 6. [Letter with W. B. Richmond]

‘Lord Leighton’s House’, Times, 8 May 1896, p. 12. [Letter]

‘Lord Leighton’s House’, Times, 15 May 1896, p. 3. [Letter with R. H. Wilson]

‘Archdeacon Cooper: In Memoriam’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (August 1896). [Poem]

‘Hymn on the death of Annie Wilson’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (August 1896)

‘In Memoriam: Lady Tennyson’, Academy, 50 (22 August 1896), 130. [Poem]

‘In Memoriam: Lady Tennyson’, Cornishman, 27 August 1896, p. 4. [Poem]

‘The National Trust: Its Work and Needs’, Nature Notes, 7 (September 1896), 190-1.

‘The Passion Play at Selzach’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 160 (September 1896), 315-27.

‘Such as Sit in Darkness and in the Shadow of Death’, Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, 12 September 1896, p. 3. [Poem]

‘Schacee, the Brave’, Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, 12 September 1896, p. 3. [Poem]

‘Armenia: A Cry from the Deep’, Christian World Pulpit, 50 (16 September 1896), 177-9.

‘In Memoriam: Lady Tennyson’, Living Age, 210 (26 September 1896), 770. [Poem]

‘In Memory of September 23, 1896’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (October 1896). [Poem]

‘The Passion Play at Selzach’, Review of Reviews, 14 (October 1896), 481-2.

‘Is Armenia Worth Saving?’ Manchester Guardian, 1 October 1896, p. 9.

‘The Neighbour’, Manchester Guardian, 8 October 1896, p. 8.

‘England’s Obligations to Armenia’, Manchester Guardian, 8 October 1896, p. 8.

‘Haunting Voice’, Living Age, 211 (31 October 1896), 258.

‘The Passion Play at Selzach’, Living Age, 211 (31 October 1896), 299-310.

‘Archbishop Benson’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (November 1896). [Poem]

‘The “Arbour Tower,” Newcastle-on-Tyne’, Times, 3 November 1896, p. 9. [Letter]

‘Mr. George Russell’s Committee’, Times, 20 November 1896, p. 7. [Letter]

‘Sonnet Written for the Opening of the “Victoria” Working Men’s Reading Room, Keswick, November 28th, 1896’, Crosthwaite Parish Magazine, (December 1896). [Poem]

‘Noble Sport’, Nature Notes, 7 (December 1896), 256. [Poem]

‘In Honour of William Thompson Stephenson’, West Cumberland Times, 26 December 1896, p. 4. [Poem]

‘To W. E. Gladstone, On His Eighty-Seventh Birthday’, Westminster Gazette, 29 December 1896, p. 3. [Poem]

Ballads of Brave Deeds (London, 1896).

The Darkened West: An Appeal to England for Armenia (Keswick, 1896).

Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle. A Biographical Memoir (London, 1896).

A Reminiscence of Wordsworth Day, Cockermouth, April 7th, 1896 (Edited) (Cockermouth, 1896).

The Revival of the Decorative Arts at Lucerne: Two Walks about the Ancient City of the Wooden Stork’s Nests (Lucerne, 1896).

A Happier Christmas and a Glad New Year: From Crosthwaite Vicarage, 1896 (Keswick, 1896).


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