BIB_ID
405149
Accession number
MA 13713
Creator
Chapman, John, 1822-1894.
Display Date
[1854?].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (9 pages) ; 20.5 x 13.1 cm
Notes
Manuscript appears to be a fragment of an unsigned and extensively corrected draft of a letter fragment, written in an unidentified hand and addressed by John Chapman to an unidentified recipient, possibly intended by the writer for publication or public distribution.
Concerns the (ultimately failed) attempt made in 1854 by James Martineau and other creditors of Chapman to take advantage of Chapman's financial difficulties to gain control of the Westminster review.
Concerns the (ultimately failed) attempt made in 1854 by James Martineau and other creditors of Chapman to take advantage of Chapman's financial difficulties to gain control of the Westminster review.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Responding to claims by Mr. [James] Martineau that Chapman has "been allowing himself such unrestrained license of speech" against him, while he himself has "scrupulously refrained from the least attempt to vindicate myself or to hurt him [i.e. Chapman] in the opinion of friends" by relating his own accounts of letters and statements by Martineau to friends and colleagues concerning his financial management of the Westminster review which were clearly intended to discredit him and impugn his honesty as a man of business; with mention made of Mr. R. Kinder, Mr. J.E. Taylor, Mr. Froude, Mr. Greg, Mr. Newman, and Dr. Hodgson.
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