“I have received Blackwood’s impudent letter. G—— d—— his soul! Tell him
and his coadjutor that I
BLACKWOOD AND THE BLACK DWARF.
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belong to the Black Hussars of Literature, who neither give nor receive
criticism. I’ll be cursed but this is the most impudent proposal that
ever was made.
W. S.”
James Ballantyne (1772-1833)
Edinburgh printer in partnership with his younger brother John; the company failed in the
financial collapse of 1826.
William Blackwood (1776-1834)
Edinburgh bookseller; he began business 1804 and for a time was John Murray's Scottish
agent. He launched Blackwood's Magazine in 1817.
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Author: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854
Title:Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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