• James Mackintosh to August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  • Place of Dispatch: London · Place of Destination: Paris · Date: 30.01.1832
Edition Status: Newly transcribed and labelled; double collated
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  • Sender: James Mackintosh
  • Recipient: August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Place of Dispatch: London
  • Place of Destination: Paris
  • Date: 30.01.1832
  • Notations: Empfangsort erschlossen.
    Manuscript
  • Provider: Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
  • OAI Id: DE-1a-34292
  • Classification Number: Mscr.Dresd.e.90,XIX,Bd.15,Nr.13
  • Number of Pages: 2S. auf Doppelbl., hs. m. U.
  • Format: 18,1 x 11,1 cm
  • Incipit: „[1] 15 Langham Place 30 January
    1832.
    My Dear Mr Schlegel
    Your Mss followed the Announcement very slowly. As soon as I received [...]“
    Language
  • English
    Editors
  • Bamberg, Claudia
  • Cook, Hermione
  • Varwig, Olivia
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[1] 15 Langham Place 30 January
1832.
My Dear M
r Schlegel
Your Mss followed the Announcement very slowly. As soon as I received it I made a Proposal through Mr Lockhart to Murray who in spite of more one A than one Application was very long before He answered me.
When the Answer came it required that a Sight of
Your Mss xxx should be given for a short time to a Man of Letters chosen by Mr Murray To this I could not assert without obtaining your Approbation
In determining what You ought to do I request you to consider that this literary Counsellor of
Mr Murray is not to sit in [2] Judgement on your Genius & Learning but to perform the mere gross Task of endeavouring to estimate how far the Sale of the Work would in the present State of the Taste & Temper of London on commercial Principles warrant a vile trader in Books to agree to your Terms in themselves certainly very moderate
Though I am regardful & even jealous of your Dignity I own that in this View of the Subject I should strongly incli
ne to agree with Murrays Request. The Indian Question will not come on in Parliament till next Year –
I beg an earlier Answer than
Murrays Delays allowed me to make to you
I am My Dear M
r S.
Yours very faithfully
Mackintosh
[3] [leer]
[4] M. W. A. Schelegel
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[1] 15 Langham Place 30 January
1832.
My Dear M
r Schlegel
Your Mss followed the Announcement very slowly. As soon as I received it I made a Proposal through Mr Lockhart to Murray who in spite of more one A than one Application was very long before He answered me.
When the Answer came it required that a Sight of
Your Mss xxx should be given for a short time to a Man of Letters chosen by Mr Murray To this I could not assert without obtaining your Approbation
In determining what You ought to do I request you to consider that this literary Counsellor of
Mr Murray is not to sit in [2] Judgement on your Genius & Learning but to perform the mere gross Task of endeavouring to estimate how far the Sale of the Work would in the present State of the Taste & Temper of London on commercial Principles warrant a vile trader in Books to agree to your Terms in themselves certainly very moderate
Though I am regardful & even jealous of your Dignity I own that in this View of the Subject I should strongly incli
ne to agree with Murrays Request. The Indian Question will not come on in Parliament till next Year –
I beg an earlier Answer than
Murrays Delays allowed me to make to you
I am My Dear M
r S.
Yours very faithfully
Mackintosh
[3] [leer]
[4] M. W. A. Schelegel
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