“I beg you to think I have no disinclination to the
MS. itself, from the glance I have taken at it, but from a cause you alluded to
in your former note—I mean the
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FIFTY YEARS’ RECOLLECTIONS,
continuations
running now through periodicals, I cannot see an opening for any series,
however short. I am dependant on the movements of Colburn, who sometimes takes in a mass at once like Barnaby, P. P.
Priggins, &c., and consequently cramps me every way.
Henry Colburn (1785-1855)
English publisher who began business about 1806; he co-founded the New
Monthly Magazine in 1814 and was publisher of the Literary
Gazette from 1817.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
English poet and humorist who wrote for the London Magazine; he
published Whims and Oddities (1826) and Hood's
Magazine (1844-5).
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Author: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870
Title:Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
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