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Document number: 9888
Date: 14 Oct 1847
Dating: year confirmed by Doc no 09937
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: MURRAY John
Collection: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Collection number: John Murray Collection - Acc 12604
Last updated: 27th April 2007

Edinburgh

Oct 14

Dear Sir

Your very obliging letter of Monday (? week) reached me last night at this place, whither I have been called by an unavoidable engagement.

<1> [ With regard to the article in the Quarterly to wch you are pleased to allude as good-humouredly - it is not I - but the Editor who is responsible for it, I am happy to say - as well as for all the other contents of the Review. I consider it entirely onesided - in omitting all allusion to the many very curious discoveries & facts wch you have made. I had hoped that the book wd have been taken up in a very different spirit. At all events I shd be very happy to publish for you a 2nd Volume ] - but the study of Etymology is limited to so small a class of readers that I fear the sale, wd not repay the cost of printing - & moreover the commercial & financial horizon, is at the moment, so desperately overcast that I am forced to use more than ordinary circumspection in literary undertakings, & though your offer is liberal - I am sorry to say I cannot undertake the risqué.

I believe the account of the circulation of Vol 1. has not yet been sent to you - I will cause it to be made out for that purpose, on my return home next week.

I remain Dear Sir Yours very faithfully

John Murray

H Fox Talbot Esq

Notes:

1. These brackets were added by Talbot before he returned the letter to Murray. See Doc no 09937.

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