Memoir of John Murray
Henry Hallam to John Murray, 24 February 1837
I have not impudence enough to read the article on my book in the Quarterly you
have been good enough to send me, without blushing, much less to think I
deserve it. I suppose friend Milman is
the author. The worst is, that so high praise is apt to set the public against
a book. However, I may well be satisfied, and I hope at your sale it will tell
to some purpose.
Truly yours,
Henry Hallam (1777-1859)
English historian and contributor to the
Edinburgh Review, author
of
Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 4 vols (1837-39) and
other works. He was the father of Tennyson's Arthur Hallam.
Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868)
Educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was a poet, historian and dean of St
Paul's (1849) who wrote for the
Quarterly Review.
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.
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.
