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A Publisher and His Friends

CHAPTER V
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But who are your other foemen ?' 'George Ellis and Southey.' The other he did not name.

All this was in great good humour; and next day I had a very affecting note from him, in answer to an invitation to dinner.

He has no suspicion of the _Review_ whatever." In the meantime, Mr.Murray continued to look out for further contributors.

Mr.James Mill, of the India House, in reply to a request for assistance, wrote: "You do me a great deal of honour in the solicitude you express to have me engaged in laying the foundation stone of your new edifice, which I hope will be both splendid and durable; and it is no want of zeal or gratitude that delays me.

But this ponderous Geography, a porter's, or rather a horse's load, bears me down to a degree you can hardly conceive.


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