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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW

IN THE JEFFREY YEARS, 1802-1829

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To Archibald Constable [?January ?August 1803*]

Dr Sir

I entreat that you would attend to the business of the list to be annexed to this No – If the compositors are so very stupid as not to understand the direction you may give them get the whole transcribed by a more intelligent clerk – this may easily be done before 7 oclock tonight and I shall willingly pay the expense of it — The advertisement and all the M.SS. are now in Mr W.’s hands and I beg that you would urge him to make haste –

Yours always &c

F.J.

 

* dated ‘1803’ later and in another hand

 

 

To Archibald Constable [?September 1802]

I shall send you more M.SS. on Monday certainly and sooner, if I can persuade myself to alter our arrangement – the printing is very correct on the whole – but could yu not afford us a little blacker ink? We begin to think that there is no need for a Prospectus – We can advertise and the Monthly Magazine will announce us – a short advertisement prefixed to the first number will explain our plan of reviewing and will be safer than making promises that may not be fulfilled —

F.J—

Take care that Mouniers name be right spelled – a blunder of that sort in the first article will make a bad impression