Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . is clericaloffice, he quitted the pulpit for the counter, and went into ill-health, the Rev. James Everett (destined to fame inaftCT-life as another expelled ^\esleyan minister, and founder of a 324 JOHN BLACKUELL. further ofishoot from the main body) was doing the same thing inthe same town at about the same time. They both started inbusiness as booksellers at Sheffield. Mr. Everett was a native ofAlnwick, eight years or so the senior of Mr. Blackwell. They hadknown each other in Northumberland, and now, finding themselvesthrown together—refug
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . is clericaloffice, he quitted the pulpit for the counter, and went into ill-health, the Rev. James Everett (destined to fame inaftCT-life as another expelled ^\esleyan minister, and founder of a 324 JOHN BLACKUELL. further ofishoot from the main body) was doing the same thing inthe same town at about the same time. They both started inbusiness as booksellers at Sheffield. Mr. Everett was a native ofAlnwick, eight years or so the senior of Mr. Blackwell. They hadknown each other in Northumberland, and now, finding themselvesthrown together—refugees, so to speak, from the pulpit and com-petitors in trade,—they agreed to unite in a speculation that mightbe helpful to both. In Chews Life of Everett, under date 1823,is a characteristic note of the transaction from Everetts MSS.:— A person of the name of John Blackwell, who had itinerated in theMethodist New Connexion, and retired from the work, commencedbusiness as a bookseller in Sheffield. Being on terms of friendship. Aldcrrcaa f^lackwcli with him, it was proposed that we should begin a stereotype estab-lishment, verbally agreeing to bear an equal proportion of the costof the experiment. He had got hold of a tramp, deaf and dumb,who professed to have learned the trade. This man was employed;but between the poor fellows defect of speech and hearing, ourdifficulty in understanding him, and his apparent inadequacy to thework, we abandoned the design with the loss of a few pounds. The leading newspaper in Sheffield at this time was the Montgomery, the poet, was its proprietor and editor, and hisgenius had given the paper a reputation extending far beyond thedistrict in which it was published. Everett and Blackwell were twoof Montgomerys nearest and dearest friends. The former, in con-junction with Afr. John Holland, wrote a seven-volume biography of JOHN BLA CK WELL. 325 the poet; the latter became his successor in the ownership of theIris. In September, 1
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