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Document number: 8022
Date: 1848
Dating: dating indicated by 05811, 06086
Recipient: KEY Thomas Hewitt
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: 27178
Last updated: 27th September 2010

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Professor Key

Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

My Dear Sir

The Editor <1> of the Edinburgh Review intimated to Macaulay <2> that he wished to decline the Article, altho’ he did not say so in express terms.

I therefore wrote to a friend <3> who is intimate with the Editor of the North British Review, and am happy to say [illegible] article will be


Notes:

1. William Empson (1791–1852), editor of the Edinburgh Review.

2. Probably Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay (1800–1859), politician and historian. In the polemic of WHFT against J.W. Croker (d.1857), politician and journalist [see Doc. No: 06058], Macaulay would have been a great support as John Wilson Croker was an old enemy of his and wrote equally negative reviews of his The history of England from the accession of James the Second (London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1848–1860).

3. Possibly Sir David Brewster (1781–1868), Scottish scientist & journalist. [See Doc. No: 06048].

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