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Memoir of John Murray
John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 28 September 1840
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Preface
Vol. 1 Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Chapter XIII.
Chapter XIV.
Chapter XV.
Chapter XVI.
Chapter XVII.
Chapter XVIII.
Chapter XIX.
Vol. 2 Contents
Chap. XX.
Chap. XXI.
Chap. XXII.
Chap. XXIII.
Chap. XXIV.
Chap. XXV.
Chap. XXVI.
Chap. XXVII.
Chap. XXVIII.
Chap. XXIX.
Chap. XXX.
Chap. XXXI.
Chap. XXXII.
Chap. XXXIII.
Chap. XXXIV.
Chap. XXXV.
Chap. XXXVI.
Chap. XXXVII.
Index
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Milton Lockhart,
Sept. 28th, 1840.
My dear Murray

Murchison has come back grander by far than ever from his Russian travels. I fancy he must now take rank as Grand Duke. He sported in a military cap two little geological hammers in silver crosswise, so as to represent an order, and was everywhere treated, he says, en prince, and he sent the Czar a superb copy of ‘My System’ with a valedictory autograph, expressing his approbation of the Muscovite empire in general, and its Siberian strata in particular, which I strongly suspect was designed to be
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recompensed in some splendid shape by that amiable brother potentate. Murchison, however, seems to have amassed much curious and interesting information about Russia and the Russians, and I have encouraged him to draw out his journal in his own way with the view of letting me work its contents into an article in Venables’ little volume, including of course copious extracts from “the MS. diary of a distinguished friend.”

Your very sincere and faithful
J. G. L.