[A Publisher and His Friends by Samuel Smiles]@TWC D-Link bookA Publisher and His Friends CHAPTER XIV 10/29
In sending it to Mr.Murray (March 30, 1816), he wrote: "I send you my last night's dream, and request to have fifty copies struck off for private distribution.
I wish Mr.Gifford to look at it; it is from life." Afterwards, when Lord Byron called upon Mr.Murray, he said: "I could not get to sleep last night, but lay rolling and tossing about until this morning, when I got up and wrote that; and it is very odd, Murray, after doing that, I went to bed again, and never slept sounder in my life." The lines were printed and sent to Lord Byron.
But before publishing them, Mr.Murray took advice of his special literary adviser and solicitor, Mr.Sharon Turner.
His reply was as follows: _Mr.Turner to John Murray_. _April_ 3, 1816. There are some expressions in the Poem that I think are libellous, and the severe tenor of the whole would induce a jury to find them to be so. The question only remains, to whom it is applicable.
It certainly does not itself name the person.
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