Memoir of John Murray
Benjamin Disraeli to John Murray, December 1825
December, 1825.
My dear Sir,
The sensation about the paper is very great. A meeting of
the proprietors of the New
Times was held yesterday, in order to conciliate the
reporters, whom they have universally offended. I have received two letters
from Watts, and in consequence have
engaged Mr. Hall* and a Mr. Windyer, sen., both of whom we shall find
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most excellent reporters and men of business. The latter
has been on the Times. Mr.
Hall and Mr. Windyer will call on me
to-morrow at 10 for their agreements, and I shall give them a note to you to
have their agreements executed. I should not have troubled you with this, had
it been in my power to have reached you to-day. Pray favour me with a note,
informing me whether Hall and Windyer
shall call in Whitehall Place or Albemarle Street, and what hour may suit your
convenience. It is no use to write to Lockhart after to-day.
Yours ever,
Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889)
Journalist and art critic; he was editor of
The Amulet from 1826
and was at different times sub-editor and editor of the
New Monthly
Magazine.
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the
Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the
Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
Walter Henry Watts (1776-1842)
Miniature painter and journalist who wrote for the
Morning Post,
Morning Chronicle, and
Literary
Gazette.
Charles Windeyer (1780-1855)
Parliamentary reporter for the
Times and the
Morning Chronicle; he emigrated to Australia in 1828.
The Art-Union. (1839-1843). A monthly periodical of the arts edited by Samuel Carter Hall; it was continued as the
Art Journal to 1912.
The New Times. (1817-1828). Daily London newspaper established as a conservative alternative to the
Times; it was edited by Sir John Stoddart (1817-1826) and Eugenius Roche
(1827-1828).
The Times. (1785-). Founded by John Walter, The Times was edited by Thomas Barnes from 1817 to 1841. In the
romantic era it published much less literary material than its rival dailies, the
Morning Chronicle and the
Morning
Post.
