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Memoir of John Murray
John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 28 March 1843
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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Mar. 28th, 1843.
Dear M.,

I am sorry indeed to find that you have been so unwell. Let me hope you are now yourself, and that we shall meet now and then. I have been myself neither well nor in good spirits, but I worked hard for a while on Hook’s papers,
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and am willing to work again at Wilkie’s’,* though I don’t like the character. It wants generosity and openness, and without these qualities who can care much about any man? The real merit is his critiques on Art. If you encourage me, after reading my sketch of Theodore Hook, I will try. but I don’t often please you, I know, and have little heart, therefore, for writing with a view to Q. R.