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Document number: 2258
Date: 01 Dec 1847
Dating: 1847 confirmed by 06078
Postmark: 2 Dec 1847
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: JERDAN William
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20319
Last updated: 2nd October 2010

Beaufoy Terrace
Kilburn
1 Decr

My dear Sir

I have kept a space open for you in the Literary Gazette to the latest day every week for some weeks past. Have you given up the idea of setting the Quarterly right?<1>

You will be elected to the R. Soc. Lit. next meeting Thursday Dec 12. Mr Hallam and myself had the pleasure of signing the proposal and most of the Council added their names to the Certificate

Yrs truly
W Jerdan

[envelope]
Henry Fox Talbot Esq
Athenaeum Club
Pall Mall

Lacock Abbey
Chippenham


Notes:

1. John Wilson Croker wrote an extremely negative review of WHFT's English Etymologies (London: J. Murray, 1847), in Quarterly Review, v. 81, September 1847, pp. 500–525. WHFT replied to this review in ‘The Reviewer Reviewed’, The Literary Gazette and Journal of belles lettres, science and art, no. 1615, 1 January 1848, p. 1-6. [Doc. No: 06078]. John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), Irish-born, was a Tory MP from1807 to 1832 and Secretary of the Admiralty from 1810 to 1830. As an author, he was noted for his virulent reviews in The Quarterly Review as much as for his 1831 edition of Boswell's Live of Johnson.

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