2. Essays, Speeches, and Sermons. By Connop Thirlwall, D.D., late Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited by J. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D. 8vo. (London, 1880.)
3. Letters to a Friend. By Connop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited by the Very Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D. 8vo. (London, 1881.)
4. Letters, Literary and Theological, of Connop Thirlwall, late Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited by the Very Rev. J. J. Stewart Perowne, D.D., Dean of Peterborough, and the Rev. Louis Stokes, B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. With Annotations and Preliminary Memoirs by the Rev. Louis Stokes. 8vo. (London, 1881.)
5. Letters to a Friend. New Edition. (London, 1882.)
[19]. Dr Perowne’s Preface to Letters, &c., p. vi.
[20]. Letters, &c., p. 177.
[21]. Primitiæ, p. 52. The essay is endorsed: ‘Composed 1st January, 1806. Eight years old.’
[22]. Primitiæ, p. 224. The piece is dated October 28, 1808.
[23]. Letters to a Friend, p. 155. As a matter of fact the Bishop did buy and destroy all the copies that he could.
[24]. Dean Perowne mentions (Preface, p. viii.) that ‘at school he did not care to enter into the games and amusements of the other boys, but was to be seen at play-hour withdrawing himself into some corner with a pile of books under his arm.’