Memoir of John Murray
Benjamin Disraeli to John Murray, 25 May 1824
Frederick Place, May 25th, 1824.
1/2 past 1 o’clock a.m.
My dear Sir,
The travels, to which I alluded this morning, would not bind
up with ‘Parry,’ since a
moderate duodecimo would contain the adventures of a certain Mr. Aylmer Papillon in a terra
incognita. I certainly should never have mentioned them had I been
aware that you were so very much engaged, and I only allude to them once more
that no
* It will be observed that while the father
maintained the older spelling of the name the son invariably writes it
thus. |
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confusion may arise from the half-explanations given this
morning. You will oblige me by not mentioning this to anybody.
Believe me to be, my dear Sir,
Your very faithful and obliged Servant,
Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855)
Admiral in the Royal Navy and arctic explorer; he was the author of
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a north-west Passage from the Atlantic to the
Pacific (1821).