As the invaluable instructions which you addressed to the
students of the University of Glasgow have as completely associated your name
with the literature of this
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MEMOIRS OF JOHN MURRAY
country, as your political
conduct has with its greatest statesmen, I trust that I shall be pardoned for
having inscribed to you (without soliciting permission) the present edition of
the works of one of our greatest poets, “your own school- and
form-fellow,” Byron.
John Murray II (1778-1843)
The second John Murray began the Quarterly Review in 1809 and
published works by Scott, Byron, Austen, Crabbe, and other literary notables.
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Author: Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904
Title:Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891).
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