182 Autobiographical Notes. 



About this time Murray came to know Sir David Brewster, 

 and was encouraged to join a staff of writers, including Carlyle, 

 who contributed articles to Brewster's Cyclopccdia. 



In 1(817 his friend M'Culloch had been appointed first 

 editor of the Scotsman, a post he held till 31st December, 

 1819, when he was relieved of it to make room for Mr Charles 

 Maclaren, who succeeded him in the editorial chair. In 1828 

 M'Culloch, after having spent the intervening \ears in lecturing 

 on political economy and in literary work, removed from Edin- 

 burgh to London to take up a professorship which had been 

 offered to him at the University there. Murray thereupon en- 

 deavoured to succeed M'Culloch as a lecturer on political 

 economy, and he is so described in the Edinburgh Directories 

 of the period, but his efforts in this direction were attended with 

 questionable success. Dr Alexander Trotter, however, states 

 that on the invitation of some learned societies Murray visited 

 America and lectured on the science in the principal towns of 

 the United States. ^° Meantime he was also busily engaged with 

 his literary labours, and quite a number of volumes and pamph- 

 lets, to be described hereafter, emanated from his pen. He 

 was, moreover, a constant contributor to the magazines. 



In 1833 Murray acted as secretary to the committee who 

 erected in Minnigaff a monument, seventy feet high, to Dr 

 Alexander Murray, the philologist, and late of Urr, whose friend- 

 ship he had known. This committee was instrumental in col- 

 lecting a sum of ^140 in subscriptions to meet the cost of the 

 monument. 1^ 



In 1840 Murray paid his first visit to London, leaving 

 Edinburgh on 19th May and proceeding by coach to Glasgow, 

 thence by boat to Liverpool, and by rail to London, calling at 

 Birmingham on the way. In the MS. volume in my possession, 

 already referred to, he gives a detailed and instructive account 

 of this visit, under the heading "Reminiscences of a Journey." 

 While in London he saw much of his old friend M'Culloch, and 

 through him met with a number of interesting persons. He also 

 found time to call upon Carlyle, whose impressions of his quon- 

 dam friend are preserved in the following characteristic pen 



10. East Galloivay Sketches. Cftstle-DoiigLas, 1901, p. 443. 



11. Ibid, p. 445. 



