Memoir of John Murray
John Taylor Coleridge to John Murray, 14 December 1824
Dec. 14th, 1824.
My dear Sir,
I have seen Mr. Locker
this afternoon, and he has communicated to me what had passed between him and
you; upon all parts of the propositions, which he made in your name, I will
only say in a simple sentence that I am perfectly satisfied. I think them
honourable both to the maker and receiver.
You will believe that I have the cause much at heart; ![]()
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and as some time must
elapse before I perfectly see my way, I am anxious to lose no time in acquiring
all the preliminary knowledge necessary. I believe he told you that I should be
in the King’s Bench to-morrow; but I find that a cause in which I am
engaged, and which stood for to-morrow, is appointed the first on Thursday; I
shall be therefore in chambers all the morning, if you can make it convenient
to call on me. I know how much you are occupied; and therefore when I mention
that I should prefer an early hour, it is only on the supposition that one hour
may be as convenient to you as another. My reason for
the preference is that till I have seen you I cannot well call on Mr. Gifford, which I am anxious to do at the
first moment possible; for I would not for the world have him think me failing
in attention to him.
If your occupations prevent you from coming so far this way
to-morrow, will you order to be sent to my house any
papers you may have, or the last publishers’ lists. You know my address
is 65 Torrington Square.
Believe me, my dear Sir,
Very truly yours,
Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876)
Barrister, nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and writer for the
Quarterly Review, of which he was briefly editor in 1824, succeeding William
Gifford.
William Gifford (1756-1826)
Poet, scholar, and editor who began as a shoemaker's apprentice; after Oxford he
published
The Baviad (1794),
The Maeviad
(1795), and
The Satires of Juvenal translated (1802) before becoming
the founding editor of the
Quarterly Review (1809-24).
Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849)
Secretary to the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich (1819); he was a painter, editor of
The Plain Englishman (1820-30) and a friend of Robert Southey and
Sir Walter Scott.
