The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
Chapter 16: 1832-36
John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 8 July 1830
“The Rev. H. H. Milman, St.
Mary’s, Reading.
“Chiefswood, near Melrose, July 8, 1830.
“My dear
Milman,—Owing to some mistake at Albemarle Street, I did
not receive your letter of the 25th of June until last night—which I much
regret, as time is beginning to be precious for the next Quarterly. I also have
read Heber’s ‘Life,’ and with great
disappointment. The subject had in truth been exhausted before Mrs. Heber took it up. But although under
these circumstances I can hardly think a ‘Memoir’ of the Bishop
would be the thing for the Quarterly
Review, I feel strongly that the book might furnish you
with materials whereon to construct a most interesting general article. It is a proud
thing for the Church that it always contains men of the same class with
Heber—gentlemen—almost universal
scholars—sincere patriots and philanthropists and Christians. There is no
other
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Church—certainly no other Protestant
one—of which all this could be said. Here is one point. . . . I admire
Henry Coleridge’s
book very much indeed, and should be delighted to receive the
proposed article on him and
the nameless Germans you allude to. Let me have Heber and
Coleridge—which you please
first. But do let me have one of them, or something, at all events, from you
forthwith, for I never was so poorly off for materials of the right cut; and
please, if you write to me again, address me here at once.
“My wife desires her best remembrances. We have had
very wretched weather, considering the time of year; but still there have been
fine days some, and fine half days not a few; and finding ourselves after some
summers’ absence re-established in our old favourite cottage juxta Tuedam, we have been thinking of
anything but complaint. I hope Mrs.
Milman is quite recovered, and all your pretty children in full
bloom.—Ever truly yours,
“Anything more as to the Indian poetry, and, may
I add, as to the Christian scheme, Q.F.F.Q.S.1 Sir W. Scott has not
yet been released from Edinburgh, but will be here next week.”
Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798-1843)
The nephew and literary executor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; he was a barrister and
reviewer for the
British Critic and
Quarterly
Review.
Amelia Heber [née Shipley] (1789-1870)
The daughter of William Davies Shipley, dean of St Asaph; in 1809 she married Reginald
Heber, afterwards bishop of Calcutta. Thomas Creevey reports that returning from India she
was duped into a bigamous marriage with a Greek.
Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta (1783-1826)
English poet and Bishop of Calcutta, author of
Palestine: a Prize
Poem (1807) and the hymn “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.” He was the half-brother
of the book-collector Richard Heber.
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the
Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the
Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868)
Educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was a poet, historian and dean of St
Paul's (1849) who wrote for the
Quarterly Review.
The Quarterly Review. (1809-1967). Published by John Murray, the
Quarterly was instigated by Walter
Scott as a Tory rival to the
Edinburgh Review. It was edited by
William Gifford to 1824, and by John Gibson Lockhart from 1826 to 1853.
Amelia Heber [née Shipley] (1789-1870)
The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D., Lord Bishop of Calcutta. With selections
from his Correspondence, Unpublished Poems, and Private Papers, together with a Journal of
his Tour in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Hungary, and Germany, and a History of the
Cossaks. 2 vols (London: John Murray, 1830).
