Memoir of John Murray
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 11 December 1838
Coutts’ second receipt I must return, and a cheque
for the amount. I guess, from some figures which I see on the back of it, that
your usual liberality thinks itself indebted
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to me for some extra
contributions in the last four numbers. I confess that I am very much pleased
to find that you are pleased with my articles; but I cannot acquiesce in your
punctilious admeasurement, and still less in your liberal standard of extra
value. In truth, I feel that I am already extravagantly remunerated, and
nothing would induce me to abide by such a scale, but that you and Lockhart both tell me that you find practically that you can afford it, and that it answers
your purpose. But as to any increase, under pretexts however kind and
flattering, you must allow me to reject it decidedly, once and for all; and if
you feel any extra satisfaction, enter it to my credit in your memory, to
counterbalance some occasion when I may happen not to be so successful.
Yours ever,
Sir George Barrow, second baronet (1806-1876)
The eldest son of Sir John Barrow, first baronet (1764-1848); he married the adopted
daughter of John Wilson Croker. Barrow worked in the Colonial Office where in 1870 he
became chief clerk in the African and Mediterranean department.
John Wilson Croker (1780-1857)
Secretary of the Admiralty (1810) and writer for the
Quarterly
Review; he edited an elaborate edition of Boswell's
Life of
Johnson (1831).
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
Editor of the
Quarterly Review (1825-1853); son-in-law of Walter
Scott and author of the
Life of Scott 5 vols (1838).
John Murray II (1778-1843)
The second John Murray began the
Quarterly Review in 1809 and
published works by Scott, Byron, Austen, Crabbe, and other literary notables.
