Memoir of John Murray
Sir Alexander Boswell to John Murray, July 1817
I shall wait upon you with much pleasure on Friday, and
certainly you offer me an inducement which would have compensated for a
disagreeable host. But although it is no doubt very gratifying to me to meet
with one whose poems I have so highly appreciated [Campbell], I do not choose you to put it upon such grounds
alone that I am to
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be your guest. I have always had reason
to be sensible of your polite attention, and shall be happy when you afford me
an opportunity of marking my recollection of it.
Your most obedient Servant,
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).