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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 Letters"-- Murray and James Hogg at Abbotsford--Conclusion of Hogg's correspondence--Robert Owen--Increased number of would-be poets--Sharon Turner--Gifford's illness--Croker and Barrow edit _Quarterly Review_ CHAPTER XX HALLAM--BASIL HALL .-- CRABBE--HOPE--HORACE AND JAMES SMITH Mr.Hallam--Sir H.Ellis's "Embassy to China"-- Correspondence with Lady Abercorn about new books--Proposed _Monthly Register_--Mr.Croker's condemnation of the scheme--Crabbe's Works--Mr.Murray's offer--Mr. Rogers's negotiations--Hope's "Anastasius"-- "Rejected Addresses" -- Colonel Macirone's action against the _Quarterly_--Murray's entertainments--Mrs.Bray's account of them CHAPTER XXI MEMOIRS OF LADY HERVEY AND HORACE WALPOLE--BELZONI--MILMAN--SOUTHEY--MRS.
RUNDELL, ETC. Lady Hervey's Letters--Mr.Croker's letter about the editing of them--Horace Walpole's Memoirs--Mr.Murray's correspondence with Lord Holland--The Suffolk papers, edited by Mr.Croker--Mrs.Delany's Letters--Letter from Mr.Croker--Horace Walpole's "Reminiscences," edited by Miss Berry--Tomline's "Life of Pitt"-- Giovanni Belzoni--His early career and works--His sensitiveness--His death--Examples of his strength--Rev.H.H.
Milman's Works, "Fazio," "Samor," "The Fall of Jerusalem," "Martyr of Antioch," "Belshazzar"-- Murray's dealings with Milman--Benjamin Disraeli--Letters from Southey about his articles on Cromwell--The New Churches, etc.--"The Book of the Church"-- Warren Hastings, etc--The Carbonari--Mr.Eastlake--Mrs.Graham--Galignani's pirated edition of Byron--Mrs.Rundell's "Cookery Book"-- Dispute with Longman's--An injunction obtained CHAPTER XXII WASHINGTON IRVING--UGO FOSCOLO--LADY CAROLINE LAMB--"HAJJI BABA"-- MRS. MARKHAM'S HISTORIES Washington Irving--His early dealings with Murray--He comes to England--His description of a dinner at Murray's--"The Sketch Book"-- Published in England by Miller--Afterwards undertaken by Murray--Terms of purchase--Irving's ill-success in business -- "Bracebridge Hall"-- James Fenimore Cooper--Ugo Foscolo--His early career--First article in the _Quarterly_--Letter from Mr.T. Mitchell--Foscolo's peculiarities--Digamma Cottage--His Lectures--Death of Foscolo--Lady C.Lamb--"Glenarvon"-- "Penruddock"-- "Ada Reis"-- Letter from the Hon.Wm.
Lamb--Lord J.Russell--His proposed History of Europe--Mr.James Morier's "Hajji Baba"-- Letter of Mirza Abul Hassan--Mrs.Markham's "History of England"-- Allan Cunningham CHAPTER XXIII GIFFORD'S RETIREMENT FROM THE EDITORSHIP OF THE "QUARTERLY"-- AND DEATH Gifford's failing health--Difficulty of finding a successor--Barrow's assistance--Gifford's letter to Mr.Canning--Irregularity of the numbers--Southey's views as to the Editorship--Gifford's letter to Mr. Canning--Appointment of Mr.J.T.
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