“I send you the next portion of MSS., on which I will
beg you to effect your further emendations; and I send you a letter, which,
when you have read, please to return, and send me portions of the MSS. at your
convenience. Mr. G. [Gifford] thinks
your corrections cautious and judicious. Use your best skill.
William Gifford (1756-1826)
Poet, scholar, and editor who began as a shoemaker's apprentice; after Oxford he
published
The Baviad (1794),
The Maeviad
(1795), and
The Satires of Juvenal translated (1802) before becoming
the founding editor of the
Quarterly Review (1809-24).
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.
