Memoir of John Murray
John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, [1828]
I found that the Quarterly Review had all along kept neutral
on the Catholic question, and have considered it due to your interests not to
be in a hurry to propose any change as to this matter. My own feeling, however,
is, and always has been, that the Question will be
carried in our time; and my only difficulty as to advising you results from the
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thought and
language that would be requisite for handling the subject with manliness, and
yet without needlessly alarming and outraging a great body who have hitherto,
for aught I can see, been the best and steadiest friends of the Review. May I beg you to say to
Mr. Barrow that in this case, as in
all others, it is but fair I should see the MS. ere I decide on rejecting or
accepting it. The mind of the public, I mean the respectable public, is in that
state on this question that everything, or nearly everything, must depend, with
me, upon the tone and manner of execution.
Yours truly,
Sir John Barrow, first baronet (1764-1848)
English traveler, secretary of the Admiralty, and author of over two hundred articles in
the
Quarterly Review; he is remembered for his
Mutiny on the Bounty (1831).
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).
The Quarterly Review. (1809-1967). Published by John Murray, the
Quarterly was instigated by Walter
Scott as a Tory rival to the
Edinburgh Review. It was edited by
William Gifford to 1824, and by John Gibson Lockhart from 1826 to 1853.
