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Memoir of John Murray
William Gifford to George Canning, 5 November 1826
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Preface
Vol. 1 Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Chapter XIII.
Chapter XIV.
Chapter XV.
Chapter XVI.
Chapter XVII.
Chapter XVIII.
Chapter XIX.
Vol. 2 Contents
Chap. XX.
Chap. XXI.
Chap. XXII.
Chap. XXIII.
Chap. XXIV.
Chap. XXV.
Chap. XXVI.
Chap. XXVII.
Chap. XXVIII.
Chap. XXIX.
Chap. XXX.
Chap. XXXI.
Chap. XXXII.
Chap. XXXIII.
Chap. XXXIV.
Chap. XXXV.
Chap. XXXVI.
Chap. XXXVII.
Index
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James Street, Nov. 15th, 1826.
My Dear Canning,

I send you a copy of ‘Ford.’ The avowed object is the real one—saving the press from disgrace by anticipating the bookseller’s design of giving a republication of ‘Weber.’ I feared at one time that I should not be able to get through with the work, trifling as it is. I am sadly fallen off in strength since you saw me; but this is the natural course of things,

“aridâ
Pellente lascivos amores
Canitie facilemque somnum.”

As for the Loves, why, “I humbly gave them leave to depart” an age ago, and they went, I suppose; but the

* Mr. Wm. Moorcroft went to India, and made some remarkable journeys and discoveries on the North-west frontier, especially in the Himalayas, the Punjab, Cashmere and Tibet. He died at Bokhara in 1808. His narrative is included in Moorcroft and Trebeck’s ‘Travels,’ published in 1841.

174 MEMOIRS OF JOHN MURRAY
loss of the facile slumber (a recent affliction) touches one very nearly. As I have not power to think to any purpose, my nights are as tedious as my days, and I frequently rise more dull and weary than I lie down.

You are now playing into a world of business, but remember the miser.

Ever, my dear Canning,
Faithfully and affectionately yours,
Wm. Gifford.