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Memoir of John Murray
Francis Bond Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Vol. 1 Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Chapter XIII.
Chapter XIV.
Chapter XV.
Chapter XVI.
Chapter XVII.
Chapter XVIII.
Chapter XIX.
Vol. 2 Contents
Chap. XX.
Chap. XXI.
Chap. XXII.
Chap. XXIII.
Chap. XXIV.
Chap. XXV.
Chap. XXVI.
Chap. XXVII.
Chap. XXVIII.
Chap. XXIX.
Chap. XXX.
Chap. XXXI.
Chap. XXXII.
Chap. XXXIII.
Chap. XXXIV.
Chap. XXXV.
Chap. XXXVI.
Chap. XXXVII.
Index
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July 2nd, 1835.
My Dear Murray,

I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble’s book, but I have seen enough of it to feel that she has been most unkindly and unjustly treated by the reviewers. I have no time, but if I had I know of no subject I would more willingly undertake than her vindication. People say she is vulgar! So was Eve, for she scratched whatever part of
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her itched, and did a hundred things we should call vulgar. But the fact is, everything is vulgar now-a-days. It is vulgar in London to eat cheese or pease with a knife. It is vulgar to say you are hungry or thirsty, that you perspire, even when it is supposed that you do nothing. Poor Fanny Kemble has fallen a victim to this tyranny. Her book is full of cleverness, talent, simple-heartedness, nature and nakedness. Her style is a little rough spot, but did you ever know a woman who was without one? I have no patience with the way she has been treated.