A Publisher and His Friends - Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an - Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles
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for Children"--The division of profits--Sir John Malcolm--Increasing
number of poems submitted to Mr. Murray--James Hogg--His works--And letters to Murray--The "Repository"--Correspondence with Murray--Hogg asks Murray to find a wife for him CHAPTER XIV LORD BYRON'S DEALINGS WITH MR. MURRAY--_continued_ Lord Byron's marriage--Letters from Mr. Murray during the honeymoon--Mr. Fazakerly's interview with Bonaparte--Byron's pecuniary embarrassments--Murray's offers of assistance--"Siege of Corinth"--"Parisina"--Byron refuses remuneration--Pressed to give the money to Godwin, Maturin, and Coleridge--Murray's remonstrance --Gifford's opinion of the "Siege of Corinth" and Mr. D'Israeli's --Byron leaves England--Sale of his Library--The "Sketch from Private Life"--Mr. Sharon Turner's legal opinion--Murray's letter on the arrival of the MS. of "Childe Harold," Canto III. [Transcriber's Note: two pages missing from source document] CHAPTER XIX WORKS PUBLISHED IN 1817-18--CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. Works published by Murray and Blackwood jointly--Illness of Scott--Efforts to help the Ettrick Shepherd--Murray's offers of assistance--Scott reviews the "Wake"--Hogg's house at Eltrive--Scott and the _Quarterly_--"Rob Roy"--The "Scottish Regalia"--"The Heart of Midlothian"--Appeal to Scott for an article--"Lord Orford's |
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