Sterneana

This section of the Laurence Sterne Trust website will provide digital images of manuscripts and rare printed material relating to Sterne’s life and writings. Where appropriate this material will be fully annotated.

The first series of documents describes Sterne’s activities as a clergyman in Coxwold. It is currently planned to upload early biographies and obituaries; an account by a Grand Tourist of meeting Sterne in Italy, which contains unique details of Sterne’s physical appearance, manner of dress, and idiosyncratic behaviour; and details of an unrecorded dramatisation of Tristram Shandy, performed in North America early in the nineteenth century.

Preface

By W.G. Day Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 16 March 1760

The offer of an Organ for Coxwold church. Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 23 March 1760

Sterne is nominated to the living of Coxwold. Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 1 June 1760

A letter containing ‘Meloncholy newse’. Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 6 July 1760

‘Settleing the Rentals’. Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 20 July 1760

…the Church can Scarce Contain the Number of People Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 6 August 1761

…for want of a stable. Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 6 September 1761

…They have pul’d up my Seat in Church Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 20 September 1761

…a Scotch Ox which is to be Roasted Whole Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 25 September 1761

…Coronation Newse at Coxwold Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 7 February 1762

…Death of Poor Mr Sterne Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 16 May 1762

…Sterne gives him a good Character Read the rest of this entry »

Letter – 20 June 1762

…I am afraid he’l be a Continual plague to us —- Read the rest of this entry »