Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/ Document : 224 Title: Letter from Murray to Hogg, 24 Jan 1818 Author(s): Murray, John To Hogg London Jany. 24. 1818 My dear Sir I do assure you that your kind Letter has afforded me very great pleasure, for although our correspondence had been suspended by my own idolence — & no other cause — yet my regard for you has never diminished — and I should much rejoice in any occasion of doing you a service — I shall have great pleasure in taking a share in your new work, and in being its publisher in London — With regard to the projected Quarto edition of the Queens Wake I am not sorry that it is aban doned for you will gain more I think by one Jas. Hogg Esq in Royal 8vo. But I really think that you ought to print a Thousand in [demy] 8vo to sell for 9s/ & throw off no more in the larger size than you are confident of obtaining subscribers for — other wise you will absolutely stop the sale of your book, by printing it in a form that is neither customary nor useful & retain at the same time, the advancement of your own fame — — If Blackwood likes I will join in giving you at once half the profit of the Edition of 1,000 Copies to sell at 9s/- & let you throw off Copies for your subscribers in Royal 8vo paying only for the paper & [working.] If you will draw out a neat advertisement of Royal 8vo and give me all the Names of Subscribers - I will print the whole for you & insert it in the next Number of the Quarterly Review (of which by the way the Number printed is now equal to that of the Ed. Rev 12.000 — wch I expect to make 14.000 after two Numbers) and I beg you at any rate to put my name down upon your List for Twenty Five Copies at £1-1-0 — & I will try & get your other subscribers — this is the very best time if you will send me your advertisement & List of Subscribers immediately — I am happy to say that I have your port rait in my room — that one engraved by a Painter in Edinburgh- I expect to receive the MSS of Childe Harold Canto IV and last in a few days as Mr. Hobhouse is on his way from Venice with it — Lord Byron was very well - With sincere regard main — My dear Sir your faithful friend John Murray James Hogg Esqr Eltrieve Lake by Selkirk John Murray Jany 24/18 Hogg