Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell to Cyrus Redding, [June? 1828]
“My dear Sir,
“I have sent copies of this edition to several
persons whose friendship or friendly attention has touched me during my latest
calamity. I send this copy to you as a memorial of my sense of your kindness and of my high esteem for you, not founded
merely on the experience of your friendship during my last
trial, but with a full remembrance of its value on former occasions.
It is now getting on to eight years since we have been co-editors, and I
believe no man has ever had occasion to congratulate himself on being more
fortunate in a literary partnership than
“Your very sincere friend,
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).
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).