Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 21 February 1812
London: February 21, 1812.
My dear Hodgson,—There is a book entituled ‘Galt, his Travels in ye Archipelago,’
daintily printed by Cadell and Davies, ye which I could desiderate might be
criticised by you, inasmuch as ye author is a well-respected esquire of mine
acquaintance, but I fear will meet with little mercy as a writer, unless a
friend passeth judgment. Truth to say, ye boke is ye boke of a cock-brained
man, and is full of devices crude and conceitede, but peradventure for my sake
this grace may be vouchsafed unto him. Review him myself I can not, will not,
and if you are likewize hard of heart, woe unto ye boke, ye which is a comely
quarto.
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pleases Griffiths
to send books, or rather you, for you know the sort of things I like to play
with. You will find what I say very serious as to my intentions. I have every
reason to induce me to return to Ionia. Believe me,
Yours always,
B.
Thomas Cadell the younger (1773-1836)
London bookseller, son of his better-known father; the younger Cadell entered into
partnership with William Davies in 1793. In 1802 he married Sophia Smith, sister of James
and Horace Smith of the
Rejected Addresses.
William Davies (d. 1820)
London bookseller who was assistant to the elder Thomas Cadell and partner of the
younger; he retired from the trade in 1813.
George Edward Griffiths (1772-1828)
In 1803 he succeeded his father Ralph Griffiths as editor of the
Monthly Review, continuing until 1825.
Francis Hodgson (1781-1852)
Provost of Eton College, translator of Juvenal (1807) and close friend of Byron. He wrote
for the
Monthly and
Critical Reviews, and was
author of (among other volumes of poetry)
Childe Harold's Monitor; or
Lines occasioned by the last Canto of Childe Harold (1818).
John Galt (1779-1839)
Voyages and Travels in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811; containing statistical,
commercial, and miscellaneous Observations on Gibralter, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Serigo,
and Turkey. (London: Cadell and Davies, 1812).
