The Autobiography of William Jerdan
William Gifford to William Jerdan, [1818?]
“Friday Morning.
“My dear Friend,
“I am grieved and surprised at your note. I wrote,
myself, civilly to your correspondent, and told him that I had prepared my
answer to Bellamy before you had
entrusted me with his remarks; but that if Bellamy gave me
any occasion to reply further, I would then very readily avail myself of them.
I thought I had returned them. This, it would seem, I have not. I will look
over my papers this evening, and inclose them to you without delay.
“By the by, your old acquaintance, Taylor, seems out of his wits. He calls his
paper the ‘Parson’s
Paper,’ and yet he is daily printing the blasphemies of a poor
ignorant wretch whom he calls Stockham!!
John Bellamy (1755 c.-1842)
Biblical translator and scholar; he published in Valpy's
Classical
Journal.
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 Taylor (1757-1832)
Poet and Tory journalist; editor of the
Morning Post (1787),
purchased the
True Briton, editor and proprietor of
The Sun (1813-25); author of
Records of my
Life (1832).
The Sun. (1792-1876). A Tory evening paper edited by John Heriot (1792-1806), Robert Clark (1806-07), William
Jerdan (1813-17). The poets John Taylor and William Frederick Deacon were also associated
with
The Sun.
