“Sanders’ Hotel, 162, Strand, Saturday
Noon.
Dear Sir,
“If you have heard anything of Dr. Maginn, of Cork, I would be much
obliged to you if you would favour me with a note by the twopenny post.
I am very anxious to see him, and I expected he would have been calling
for me either here or at Mr.
Cadell’s, as he wrote me he was to be in town by
the 27th at the latest.
“I shall be in town for some days, and hope to
have the pleasure of seeing you very soon.
William Blackwood (1776-1834)
Edinburgh bookseller; he began business 1804 and for a time was John Murray's Scottish
agent. He launched
Blackwood's Magazine in 1817.
Thomas Cadell the younger (1773-1836)
London bookseller, son of his better-known father; the younger Cadell entered into
partnership with William Davies in 1793. In 1802 he married Sophia Smith, sister of James
and Horace Smith of the
Rejected Addresses.
William Maginn (1794-1842)
Irish translator, poet, and Tory journalist who contributed to
Blackwood's and
Fraser's Magazines under a variety of
pseudonyms.
