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A Publisher and His Friends

PREFACE
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I .-- Controversy aroused by it--Murray ceases to publish the work--His letter to the _Morning Chronicle_--The Duke of Wellington's Despatches--Croker's edition of "Boswell's Johnson"-- Correspondence with Croker, Lockhart, etc .-- Publication of the book--Its value--Letter from Mrs.Shelley--Mr.
Henry Taylor's "Isaac Comnenus"-- "Philip van Artevelde"-- "The Family Library" and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge--The progress of "The Family Library"-- Milman's "History of the Jews"-- Controversy aroused by it--Opinion of the Jews CHAPTER XXVIII MOORE'S "LIFE OF BYRON" Murray purchases the remainder of Byron's Poems--Leigh Hunt's "Recollections"-- Moore selected as the biographer of Byron--Collection of Letters and Papers--Lockhart and Scott's opinion of the work--Publication of the first volume of Byron's "Life"-- Mrs.Shelley's letter--Publication of the second volume--Letters from Mrs.Somerville and Croker--Capt.

Medwin's Conversations--Pecuniary results of Lord Byron's "Life"-- Reviews of Moore's works in the _Quarterly_--Moore on Editors--Complete edition of "Byron's Works"-- Letters from Countess Guiccioli and Sir R.Peel--Thorwaldsen's statue of Lord Byron--Refused at Westminster Abbey, but erected in Trinity College Library, Cambridge MEMOIRS OF JOHN MURRAY.


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