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The projects of this list appear never to have been published under the title or description that Arnold gave them. Some of Arnold's anonymous contributions to the periodicals of his day still remain to be identified; it may be that among those still undiscovered works some of what have been presumed unaccomplished will appear, after all, to have been accomplished. It may be, too, that some of the works became associated with and synthesized into Arnold's related thoughts, as was the case, William E. Buckler suggests, with "The Eisteddfods" — "it seems that [Arnold's] basic purpose in writing that article finally merged with his thoughts for 'My Countrymen'; and it may be, finally, that his thoughts on the two gave rise to the Celtic lectures in 1866" (Matthew Arnold's Books, p. 172, fn. 12).

Arnold had published prefaces to Poems in 1853 and 1854 (reprinted in 1855 and 1857) and Merope in 1858; the purpose of these pieces, however, was to explain his position as a poet.

The major portion of Arnold's letters remains to be published. When something like completeness is given to the correspondence, it is likely that additional projects will be discovered.

The entries for sources of information in the text are given in full at their first appearance; thereafter, they are abbreviated.

That Arnold finally dismissed this project is suggested by his allowing a part of his essay on the Latitudinarians, "A Psychological Parallel," to be used as an introduction by W. M. Metcalfe in his edition of the discourses of John Smith, The Natural Truth of Christianity (Paisley, 1882).