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... Street , and while in Murray's employ was sent on one occasion to deliver proof - sheets to Lord Byron . At length , in 1816 , he and another Scottish immigrant to London , Alexander Elder , a native of Banff , who was Smith's junior by ...
... Street , and while in Murray's employ was sent on one occasion to deliver proof - sheets to Lord Byron . At length , in 1816 , he and another Scottish immigrant to London , Alexander Elder , a native of Banff , who was Smith's junior by ...
Page xvii
... street off the Strand . Douglas Jerrold and Father Prout were prominent members . There he first made the acquaintance of George Henry Lewes , who became a lifelong associate . The club , however , fell into pecuniary difficulties ...
... street off the Strand . Douglas Jerrold and Father Prout were prominent members . There he first made the acquaintance of George Henry Lewes , who became a lifelong associate . The club , however , fell into pecuniary difficulties ...
Page xix
... Street , who published writings of Charles Lamb , Coleridge , and Keats , and became in 1821 proprietors of the ' London Magazine . ' Williams cherished from boyhood a genuine love of literature , and received much kindly notice from ...
... Street , who published writings of Charles Lamb , Coleridge , and Keats , and became in 1821 proprietors of the ' London Magazine . ' Williams cherished from boyhood a genuine love of literature , and received much kindly notice from ...
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... Street , Strand , on the naked foreshore of the Thames , was acquired to serve as a printing - office , and a small dwelling - house some doors nearer the Strand in the same street was rented for editorial and publishing purposes . Late ...
... Street , Strand , on the naked foreshore of the Thames , was acquired to serve as a printing - office , and a small dwelling - house some doors nearer the Strand in the same street was rented for editorial and publishing purposes . Late ...
Page xxxvi
... Street , Strand . On 29 April 1868 Smith celebrated the arrival of the favouring breeze by a memorable dinner to contributors at Greenwich . The number of pages of the paper was increased to sixteen , and for a short time in 1869 the ...
... Street , Strand . On 29 April 1868 Smith celebrated the arrival of the favouring breeze by a memorable dinner to contributors at Greenwich . The number of pages of the paper was increased to sixteen , and for a short time in 1869 the ...
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