William Tidd Matson

The Poetical Works of W Tidd Matson

This copy was discovered amongst the books left in the church when we cleared and tidied the former choir vestry. It's in quite poor condition but appears to have been used as a reference source by GT Streather when researching his Memorials of the Independent Chapel at Rothwell (available for purchase, here).

The Poetical Works

This copy was discovered amongst the many volumes of bibles and other religious texts in the church.
Not the "complete" works, this was a further volume, embellished with a portrait of the author.

Dedicated to John Matson

Matson dedicated this volume to the memory of his late father.

Daily News Dec 14 1858
The book was generally well received as shown by the extracts of newspaper reviews.

London Daily News
Dec 14 1858

Further works

The Prose Writings of William Tidd Matson would have been published had he received enough orders to warrant publishing 100 copies.

LUKE LATHER After Hood

Taken from the later collection published by Matson, the poem Luke Lather was published in the Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 5:236, 432, 4th July 1868. Matson later collected this along with many other pieces of his poetry and published them together in his The Poetical Works of William Tidd Matson, A. H. Stride and Elliot Stock, 1893, pp. 556-7.

The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as Rev. Tidd Matson, with payment of 15s (NLS Dep 341/310). (AC)

This copy of The Chambers's Journal is published by Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry (Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7645)

Useful Links

Rothwell Congregational Library

Rothwell Heritage Centre