Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell
A. J. Valpy to Cyrus Redding, [April? 1832]
“Dear Sir—I cannot
but think the magazine in its
present improving state worth the 1000l., more
particularly if Mr. Campbell, yourself,
and two other satisfactory persons divided the property. If the Monthly Magazine sinks, a considerable
rise will take place. The same arguments for the two years would of course
remain in force over the assigned work. If Mr.
C. desire it, I will retain a share, otherwise only print it, if
a new proprietary continue their confidence in me. I shall be at the ballot at
the L. U. to-morrow at four p.m.
“I am,
“Yours truly,
“I understood that Captain M. and Mr. M. would take
shares?”
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
Scottish poet and man of letters; author of
The Pleasures of Hope
(1799),
Gertrude of Wyoming (1808) and lyric odes. He edited the
New Monthly Magazine (1821-30).
James Cochrane (1848 fl.)
London bookseller who published the
Metropolitan Magazine and
works by James Hogg.
Frederick Marryat (1792-1848)
Sea-captain and novelist; he published
The Naval Officer, or, Scenes
and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay, 3 vols (1829) and edited the
Metropolitan Magazine (1832-35).
Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854)
Son of the Reading schoolmaster Richard Valpy, he was a London printer who specialized in
classical texts. With the poet George Dyer he published 141 volumes of Delphin classics
(1819-30).
New Monthly Magazine. (1814-1884). Founded in reaction to the radically-inclined
Monthly Magazine,
the
New Monthly was managed under the proprietorship of Henry
Colburn from 1814 to 1845. It was edited by Thomas Campbell and Cyrus Redding from
1821-1830.