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A Publisher and His Friends

CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER IX.
LORD BYRON'S WORKS, 1811 TO 1814 The origin of Mr.Murray's connection with Lord Byron was as follows.
Lord Byron had made Mr.Dallas [Footnote: Robert Charles Dallas (1754-1824).

His sister married Captain George Anson Byron, and her descendants now hold the title.] a present of the MS.

of the first two cantos of "Childe Harold," and allowed him to make arrangements for their publication.

Mr.Dallas's first intention was to offer them to the publisher of "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," but Cawthorn did not rank sufficiently high among his brethren of the trade.

He was precluded from offering them to Longman & Co.


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