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l to you, and I trust that you will over find me your faithful friend.--J.M." Some of the most important events in Murray's career occurred during the first year of his married life. Chief among them may perhaps be mentioned his part share in the publication of "Marmion" (in February 1808)--which brought him into intimate connection with Walter Scott--and his appointment for a time as publisher in London of the _Edinburgh Review_; for he was thus brought into direct personal contact with those forces which ultimately led to the chief literary enterprise of his life--the publication of the _Quarterly Review_. Mr. Scott called upon Mr. Murray in London shortly after the return of the latter from his marriage in Edinburgh. "Mr. Scott called upon me on Tuesday, and we conversed for an hour.... He appears very anxious that 'Marmion' should be published by the King's birthday.... He said he wished it to be ready by that time for very particular reasons; and yet he allows that the poem is not completed, and that he is yet undetermined if he shall make his hero happy or otherwise." The other important event, to which allusion has been made, was the transfer to Mr. Murray of part of the London agency for the _Edinburgh Review_. At the beginning of 1806 Murray sold 1,000 copies of the _Review_ on the day of its publication, and the circulation was steadily increasing. Constable proposed to transfer the entire London publication to Murray, but the Longmans protested, under the terms of their existing agreement. In April 1807 they employed as their attorney Mr. Sharon Turner, one of Murray's staunchest allies. Turner informed him, through a common friend, of his having been retained by the Longmans; but Murray said he could not in any way "feel hurt at so proper and indispensable a pursuit of his profession." The opinion of counsel was in favour of the Messrs. Longman's contention, and of their "undisputable rights to one-half of the _Edinburgh Review_ so long as it continues to be published under that title." Longman & Co. accordingly obtained an injunction to prevent the publication of the _Edinburgh Review_ by any other publisher in London without their express consent. Matters were brought to a crisis by the following letter, written by the editor, Mr. Francis Jeffrey, to Messrs. Constable & Co.: _June 1_, 1807. GENTLEMEN, I believe you understand already that neither I nor any of the original and regular w
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