Memoir of John Murray
Lady Byron to John Murray, 16 February 1817
7, Green Street, February 16th, 1817.
I leave London to-morrow, and should be obliged to you if you
would let me have Dugald Stewart’s
Dissertation prefixed to the ‘Encyclopædia’ to read on my journey. My father also
wishes to have Franklin’s
‘Letters’ and Spence’s ‘Anecdotes.’ May I trouble you
to send them to me before nine to-morrow morning. I am inclined to ![]()
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ask a question, which I hope you will not decline
answering, if not contrary to your engagements. Who is the author of the review of ‘Childe Harold’ in the Quarterly?
Your faithful Servant,
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
American printer, scientist, writer, and statesman; author of
Poor
Richard's Almanack (1732-57).
Joseph Spence [Sir Harry Beaumont] (1699-1768)
English essayist, friend of Pope, Oxford Professor of Poetry, and patron of Stephen Duck
and Thomas Blacklock; author of
Polymetis: or, An Enquiry concerning the
Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient
Artists (1747).
Dugald Stewart (1753-1828)
Professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh University (1785-1809); he was author of
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (1792-93).
The Quarterly Review. (1809-1967). Published by John Murray, the
Quarterly was instigated by Walter
Scott as a Tory rival to the
Edinburgh Review. It was edited by
William Gifford to 1824, and by John Gibson Lockhart from 1826 to 1853.
Encyclopædia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon
a new plan. 3 vols (Edinburgh: Colin Macfarquhar, 1771). 3 vols, 1768-1771, ed. William Smellie; 10 vols, 1777–1784, ed. James Tytler; 18 vols,
1788–1797, ed. Colin Macfarquhar and George Gleig; supplement to 3rd, 2 vols, 1801; 20
vols, 1801–1809, ed. James Millar; 20 vols, 1817, ed. James Millar; supplement to 5th, 6
vols, 1816–1824, ed. Macvey Napier; 20 vols, 1820–1823, ed. Charles Maclaren; 21 vols,
1830–1842, ed. Macvey Napier and James Browne.
