Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell to Cyrus Redding, 24 February 1836
“York Chambers, St. James’s Street,
“Feb.
24th, 1836.
“If my testimony can be of any service to you I
shall be the happier to give it that I can give it you with a safe conscience.
I have known you the best part of twenty years. You were ten years my co-editor
in the editorship of the New Monthly
Magazine. We kept up that work at the height of double the sale that
it ever had had before, or has ever had since, and I attribute its success in
no small degree to your co-operation. When Colburn and Bentley
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ence with me, and sent D. Williams, author of the ‘Letters of Publicola,’ in the Weekly Dispatch, to offer me my own terms to
return to them, I refused the editorship principally because I should not have
you for my coadjutor.
“I should trust to your knowledge in the conduct of
a paper or of any periodical as much as to the experience of any individual I
am acquainted with.
“With agreeable remembrances,
“I remain,
“Yours truly,
“To Cyrus Redding, Esq.”
Richard Bentley (1794-1871)
London bookseller who in 1819 partnered with his brother Samuel (1785-1868) and in 1829
formed an unhappy partnership with Henry Colburn that was dissolved in 1832.
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).
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.
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).
David Edward Williams [Publicola] (1787 c.-1846)
He published the ‘Letters of Publicola,’ in the
Weekly Dispatch;
he was an acquaintance of Thomas Campbell and apparently the D. E. Williams who compiled
the
The Life and Correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence
(1831).
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.
