is totally unfit for the press.

Do not deceive yourself: this MS.

is not the production of a male.

A man may write as great nonsense as a woman, and even greater; but a girl may pass through those execrable abodes of ignorance, called boarding schools, without learning whether the sun sets in the East or in the West, whereas a boy can hardly do this, even at Parson's Green." James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, was another of Murray's correspondents.
The publication of "The Queen's Wake" in 1813 immediately brought Hogg into connection with the leading authors and publishers of the day, Hogg sent a copy of the volume to Lord Byron, his "brother poet," whose influence he desired to enlist on behalf of a work which Hogg wished Murray to publish.
The poem which the Ettrick Shepherd referred to was "The Pilgrims of the Sun," and the result of Lord Byron's conversation with Mr.Murray was, that the latter undertook to publish Hogg's works.

The first letter from him to Murray, December 26, 1814, begins: "What the deuce have you made of my excellent poem that you are never publishing it, while I am starving for want of money, and cannot even afford a Christmas goose to my friends ?" To this and many similar enquiries Mr.Murray replied on April 10, 1815: My Dear Friend, I entreat you not to ascribe to inattention the delay which has occurred in my answer to your kind and interesting letter.