{"id":83,"date":"2012-09-22T17:05:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T16:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=83"},"modified":"2012-09-22T17:05:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T16:05:46","slug":"50-albemarle-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"50 Albemarle Street"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The drawing room at 50 Albemarle Street.<\/p><\/div>\n

I was fortunate enough to be given a tour\u00a0this week\u00a0<\/span>of 50 Albemarle Street\u2014the home, from 1812, of the John Murray publishing firm. William Macintosh’s book was published by John Murray I when the firm was located further east in Fleet Street, but Murray II relocated the business to more fashionable premises in an effort to attract a more up-market\u00a0client\u00e8le\u00a0and roster of authors. The drawing room soon became the venue of literary\u00a0soir\u00e9es, playing host to authors, politicians, and scientists. Lord Byron and Walter Scott were frequent visitors\u2014the latter dubbing the group the “Four o’Clock Friends”. Although the move to Albemarle Street, and the firm’s\u00a0ascendancy as Britain’s leading nineteenth-century publisher, postdated\u00a0Macintosh’s death by several years, the lessons the firm had learned from the publication and reception of his book had an important influence on its future strategy, particularly when it came to texts of travel. Having spent the best part of the past five years researching the Murray firm for a forthcoming book (Travels into print<\/em>) it was a wonderful\u00a0privilege\u00a0to wander the building and understand the spaces in which the firm, and the family, operated. I was shown around by Virginia Murray, the wife of John Murray VII, whose passion for the firm’s history is infectious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was fortunate enough to be given a tour\u00a0this week\u00a0of 50 Albemarle Street\u2014the home, from 1812, of the John Murray publishing firm. William Macintosh’s book was published by John Murray I when the firm was located further east in Fleet Street, but Murray II relocated the business to more fashionable premises in an effort to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}