260 MEMOIR OF JOHN WILSON. 



things. I wrote you again with the periodicals on the 6th. Both 

 parcels were directed according to your letter, to be forwarded by 



Ambleside coach by Mr. or Mr. Jackson. I hope you have 



.received them and the former parcel. 



" Quentin Duricard is to be out on Tuesday, when I will send it 

 to you. Reginald* is not quite finished, but will be all at press in 

 a day or two". Mr. Lockhart has done Barry Cornwallf and Tim'sJ 

 Viscount Soligny in good style. My not hearing from you, how- 

 ever, discourages him, and I fear much this number will not be at 

 all what I so confidently expected it would have been. 



" I shall be happy to hear that you are all well again. 

 " I am, my dear sir, yours truly, 



" "YV. Blackwood." 



About this time, Mr. Leigh Hunt was advised to threaten legal 

 proceedings against the London publisher of the Magazine, Mr. 

 Cadell, who appears to have been greatly alarmed by this prospect, 

 not having been quite so accustomed to that species of intimation 

 as Mr. Blackwood. He accordingly wrote to Edinburgh, giving a 

 very grave and circumstantial account of the visit he had received 

 from Mr. Hunt's solicitor. Mr. Blackwood and his contributors 

 took the matter much more coolly, as may be seen from the follow- 

 in^ letter from Mr. Lockhart, whose concluding advice is eminently 

 characteristic. Indeed, all Mr. Lockhart's letters to my father, as 

 will be seen, are marked by the satirical power of the man — piquant, 

 racy, gossiping, clever, and often affectionate and sincere : — 



■ 



"Edinburgh, Friday, June, 1823. 



" My dear Professor : — Blackwood sends you by this post a 

 copy of the second letter from Cadell, so that you know, ere you 

 read this, as much of the matter as I do. 



" I own that it appears to me impossible we should at this time of day 

 suffer it to be said that any man who wishes in a gentlemanly way 

 to have our names should not have them. I own that I would 

 rather suffer any thing than have a Cockney crow in that sort. 



* Reginald Dalton. By Mr. Lockhart. 



t T/ie Flood of Thessaly, The Girl of Provence, and other Poems. By Barry Cornwall. Svo- 

 % A soubriquet for Mr. Patmore, the reputed author of Letters on England. By Victor Count 

 de Soligny. 2 vols. 1823 ; and My Friends and Acquaintamoes. 3 vols. 1S54. 



