Memoirs of William Hazlitt
Ch. I 1821
Robert Baldwin to William Hazlitt, 9 May 1821
“P. N. Row, May 9, 1821.
“My dear Sir,
“The arrangement with Messrs. Taylor and Hessey is completed, and Mr. Taylor will
take an early opportunity of calling on you, unless you should think proper to
look in upon them in a day or two. I sincerely hope that such an arrangement
will be made as shall be quite satisfactory to yourself; I am sure it is to
their interest that it should be so. I should have much at heart the welfare of
the Magazine, even if we had no
pecuniary interest remaining; but upon their success depends greatly the sale
of a considerable quantity of back stock, and of course we shall do all in our
power to promote that success.
“You will have the kindness to send me the article on Pope at your earliest convenience.
“I am, my dear Sir,
“Very faithfully yours,
“Robert Baldwin.
“William Hazlitt, Esq.,
“Southampton Buildings.”
James Augustus Hessey (1785-1870)
London publisher in partnership with John Taylor; they published the London Magazine from
1821 to 1825.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
English poet and satirist; author of
The Rape of the Lock (1714)
and
The Dunciad (1728).
John Taylor (1781-1864)
Publisher of the
London Magazine and poems of John Keats, and a
prolific writer in his own right.
The London Magazine. (1820-1829). Founded by John Scott as a monthly rival to
Blackwood's, the
London Magazine included among its contributors Charles Lamb, John Clare, Allan Cunningham,
Thomas De Quincey, and Thomas Hood.
