Memoir of John Murray
Francis Bond Head to John Murray, 1833
I was very glad to hear, the other day, that you are going
to blow another edition of your ‘Bubbles.’ Your son, however, told me
that you were thinking of leaving out the pictures. Our
friend, Miss Burges, whose per-
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formances they are, does not at all like the divorce. She
seems to think it is as cruel as the separation of man and wife in the new
workhouses; and that as the letterpress and pictures were joined together in
holy matrimony at your altar; and as they have “climbed the hill
together,” she thinks they ought “to sleep together at
the foot, John Anderson, my Jo.”