Leeds Correspondent

Nichols edited the literary matter of the Leeds Correspondent. Its first mathematical editor was John Ryley (1747–1815); he was the headmaster of the Leeds bluecoat school. He was succeeded by John Gawthorp of Leeds, and then John Whitley of Masbrough who took over when Gawthorp fell ill. Gawthorp, who ran a Lancasterian school in Leeds, died in 1817. Contributors included: • John Butterworth of Haggate (1774–1845) • Thomas Stephens Davies • Thomas Gaskin • Joseph Hine of Tyldesley • John Kay of Royton (1781–1824), a pupil of Butterworth • William Marrat • Anthony Nesbit • John Henry Swale of Liverpool (1775–1837) • Mary West of Guisborough, sister of the Wesleyan minister Francis Athow West, teacher of a girls' school in Westgate, Guisborough. The Correspondent had London distribution from 1818 through Baldwin, Cradock & Joy. It appeared in five volumes. ==Notes==