Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 14 December 1814
“December 14, 1814.
“MY DEAREST TOM,
“I will send the pattern to-morrow, and since you
don’t go to our friend (‘of the keeping part of the
town’) this evening, I shall e’en sulk at home over a solitary potation. My
self-opinion rises much by your eulogy of my social qualities. As my friend Scrope is pleased to say, I
* In a small book which I have in my possession, containing a
sort of chronological History of the Ring, I find the name of Lord
Byron, more than once, recorded among the “backers.”
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believe I am very well for a ‘holiday
drinker.’ Where the devil are you? with Woolridge*, I conjecture—for which you deserve another abscess. Hoping
that the American war will last for many years, and that all the prizes may be
registered at Bermoothes, believe me, &c.
“P.S. I have just been composing an epistle to the
archbishop for an especial licence. Oons! it looks serious. Murray is impatient to see you, and would call, if
you will give him audience. Your new coat!—I wonder you like the colour, and
don’t go about, like Dives, in purple.”
Scrope Berdmore Davies (1782-1852)
Byron met his bosom friend while at Cambridge. Davies, a professional gambler, lent Byron
funds to pay for his travels in Greece and Byron acted as second in Davies' duels.
John Murray II (1778-1843)
The second John Murray began the
Quarterly Review in 1809 and
published works by Scott, Byron, Austen, Crabbe, and other literary notables.
Stephen Wolryche (1770-1856)
Of Quatford Lodge, military physician and inspector-general of hospitals; a friend of
Thomas Moore, he attended Lady Holland and the Duke of Bedford.
