A Publisher and His Friends eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 557 pages of information about A Publisher and His Friends.

A Publisher and His Friends eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 557 pages of information about A Publisher and His Friends.
    Gifford’s illness,
    gives Gifford a carriage,
    entrusted with sale of Byron’s books and furniture,
    buys some of Byron’s books, the large screen (now at Albemarle
Street), and silver cup,
    Byron’s “Sketch from Private Life,”
    Byron leaves England,
    “Childe Harold” and “The Prisoner of Chillon,”
    letter to Byron on the “Monody on Sheridan,”
    “Tales of my Landlord,”
    correspondence with Lady Byron and Lady C. Lamb,
    Ballantyne’s proposal about Scott’s works,
    his assistance to Hogg,
    other books published by him during the year,
  1817—­Correspondence with Coleridge,
    Scott’s review of “Childe Harold,” Canto III.,
    letters from Lady C. Lamb,
    “Manfred,”
    “Manuscrit venu de Ste. Helene,”
    “Childe Harold,” Canto IV.,
    Captain Basil Hall’s “Fragments of Voyages and Travels,”
    correspondence with Lady Abercorn,
    Giovanni Belzoni,
    Washington Irving at Albemarle Street,
    other books published by him during the year,
  1818—­“Beppo,”
    visit to Scott,
    “Don Juan,” Canto I.,
    takes share in
   Blackwood’s Magazine,
   remonstrances with Blackwood on the personality of the Magazine
Articles,
   the anonymous pamphlet “Hypocrisy Unveiled,”
   assailed by a pamphlet, entitled “A Letter to Mr. John Murray
of Albemarle Street, etc.,”
   Hazlitt’s libel action,
   correspondence with Scott,
   friendship with Hallam—­publishes “Middle Ages,”
   the proposed Monthly Register,
   Crabbe’s “Tales of the Hall,” and other poems,
   Rev. H.H.  Milman
  1819—­Campbell’s “Selections from British Poets,”
   suggestions to Byron about “Don Juan,” Canto II.,
   “Mazeppa” and “The Ode to Venice,”
   Blackwood refuses to sell “Don Juan,”
   copyright of “Don Juan” infringed—­injunction applied for and
granted;
   retires from Blackwood’s Magazine,
   transfers his Scottish Agency to Oliver and Boyd,
   Thomas Hope’s “Anastasius,”
   threatened by Colonel Macirone with libel action,
   verdict in his favour,
   buys house at Wimbledon,
   literary levees at Albemarle Street,
   his acquaintance with Ugo Foscolo
  1820—­“Don Juan, Cantos III. and IV.,”
   Hobhouse’s anger—­the “My boy Hobby O!” incident,
   Milman’s “Fall of Jerusalem,”
   B. Disraeli first mentioned,
   Washington Irving’s “Sketch-Book,”
   other books published by him during the year
  1821—­Cantos III., IV., and V. of “Don Juan,”
   refuses to publish further cantos of “Don Juan,”
   Byron’s pamphlet on Bowles,
   “Sardanapalus,”
   “The Two Foscari,” “Cain, a Mystery,”
   present with Scott at Coronation of George IV.,
   injunction in case of “Cain,”
   accepts Byron’s “Memoirs,”
   Mrs. Graham’s letter to him about Sir Charles Eastlake,
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