When my article on Hallam came out, he complained to Jeffrey that I took up too much of the Review; and, when my first article on Mill appeared, he foamed with rage, and was very angry with Jeffrey for having printed it.' "'But,' said I,' the Mills are friends of his, and he naturally did not like them to be attacked.' "'On the contrary,' said Tom, 'he had attacked them fiercely himself; but he thought I had made a hit, and was angry accordingly.

When a friend of mine defended my articles to him, he said: "I know nothing of the articles.

I have not read Macaulay's articles." What can be imagined more absurd than his keeping up an angry correspondence with Jeffrey about articles he has never read?
Well, the next thing was that Jeffrey, who was about to give up the editorship, asked me if I would take it.

I said that I would gladly do so, if they would remove the headquarters of the Review to London.

Jeffrey wrote to him about it.