The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 20 March 1826
“London, March 20th.
“. . . I have just been at Ridgway’s for the first time, and
altho’ I am only in a 2nd edition,* I know I am in port. Hobhouse,† who, you know, is a brother
author, told me yesterday unasked that it was unique and quite unanswerable,
and so he intended to say on Lord John
Russell’s motion next month. . . . This I shall
immediately follow up by putting my name to it.”
John Cam Hobhouse, baron Broughton (1786-1869)
Founder of the Cambridge Whig Club; traveled with Byron in the orient, radical MP for
Westminster (1820); Byron's executor; after a long career in politics published
Some Account of a Long Life (1865) later augmented as
Recollections of a Long Life, 6 vols (1909-1911).
James Ridgway (1745-1838)
London bookseller who began trading in 1784; he was imprisoned in 1793 for printing
Thomas Paine's
Rights of Man.
John Russell, first earl Russell (1792-1878)
English statesman, son of John Russell sixth duke of Bedford (1766-1839); he was author
of
Essay on the English Constitution (1821) and
Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe (1824) and was Prime Minister (1865-66).
