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Memoir of John Murray
Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 March 1840
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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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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Bolton Street, March 4th, 1840.
Dear Sir,

Thanks for Lord Jocelyn’s book,* which, just now that we are all gaping for Chinese information, is very acceptable; and especially to me, who am too ill to go out and gossip with the rest of the world, and depend on the “dumb oracles” I find in type. Blessed be he who invented letters,—Cadmus, as I was early taught! Blessed be he who invented printing, whose name at this moment I forget! Blessed be all engravers, printers, designers, lithographers, facsimile copiers, and makers of steel plates! Blessed, even beyond these, be all publishers, especially

* ‘Six Months in China.’ By Lord Jocelyn, late Military Secretary to the Chinese Expedition.

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those who send me new books! Blessed be authors and authoresses!—but in a minor degree—a sort of beggarly blessing, such as mocked poor Esau for one, having sold his birthright. Blessed be the stitchers of pamphlets, for they are read sooner than bound books! Blessed be he* who lately wrote ‘Cecil’ (though it be but a novel), for it beguiled me through a weary night, and made me forget I had a pain in my side. I cease the Kyrie of blessings, for fear you should add, “blessed be he who first thought of note paper, to confine women’s correspondence within bounds.”