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Publisher and His Friends, A
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Title: A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; With an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843
Author: Samuel Smiles
Release Date: January 31, 2004 [EBook #10884]
Language: English
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A PUBLISHER AND HIS FRIENDS
MEMOIR AND CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN MURRAY
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE HOUSE, 1768-1843
BY THE LATE SAMUEL SMILES, LL.D.
CONDENSED AND EDITED BY THOMAS MACKAY
WITH PORTRAITS
1911
PREFACE
When my Grandfather's Memoirs were published, twenty years ago, they met with a most favourable and gratifying reception at the hands of the public. Interest was aroused by the struggle and success of a man who had few advantages at the outset save his own shrewd sense and generous nature, and who, moreover, was thrown on his own resources to fight the battle of life when he was little more than a child.
The chief value of these volumes, however, consists in the fact that they supply an important, if not an indispensable, chapter in the literary history of England during the first half of the nineteenth century. Byron and Scott, Lockh