Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
I thank you much for sending me the ‘Globe.’ I haven’t had time
yet to read the correspondence between Murat and Talleyrand,
and during the confusion of preparing a catalogue of my library, I have put it
by in some place where, in my present hurry, I know not the place to look for
them. I must thank you for giving them to me, and they shall be treasured as a
keepsake. Most heartily do I wish health and happiness to you.
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If I am alive when you return to England, I hope you will
come and spend a week or ten days with me.
“I am,
“Dear Sir,
“To Mr.
Redding, with Dr.
Parr’s best
respects and kindest wishes.”
King Joachim Murat of Naples and Sicily (1767-1815)
French marshall; he married Caroline Bonaparte (1800) and succeeded Joseph Bonaparte as
king of Naples (1808); in 1815 he was captured and shot in an attempt to retake
Naples.
Samuel Parr (1747-1825)
English schoolmaster, scholar, and book collector whose strident politics and assertive
personality involved him in a long series of quarrels.
Cyrus Redding (1785-1870)
English journalist; he was a founding member of the Plymouth Institute, edited
Galignani's Messenger from 1815-18, and was the effective editor of
the
New Monthly Magazine (1821-30) and
The
Metropolitan (1831-33).
The Globe. (1803-1922). London evening newspaper; the original proprietor was Sir Richard Phillips; George Lane
was among its later editors.