Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to John Murray, 6 January 1815
“Kirkby, January 6th, 1815.
“The marriage took place on the 2d
instant; so pray make haste and congratulate away.
“Thanks for the Edinburgh Review and the abolition of the print. Let the next be from the other of Phillips—I mean
(not the Albanian, but) the original one in the exhibition;
the last was from the copy. I should wish my sister and Lady Byron to decide upon
the next, as they found fault with the last. I have no opinion of
my own upon the subject.
“Mr. Kinnaird will, I
dare say, have the goodness to furnish copies of the Melodies, if you state my wish upon the subject. You may
have them, if you think them worth inserting. The volumes in their collected state must
be inscribed to Mr. Hobhouse, but I have not yet
mustered the expressions of my inscription; but will supply them in time.
“With many thanks for your good wishes, which have all been
realized, I remain very truly,
“Yours,
“Byron.”
John Cam Hobhouse, baron Broughton (1786-1869)
Founder of the Cambridge Whig Club; traveled with Byron in the orient, radical MP for
Westminster (1820); Byron's executor; after a long career in politics published
Some Account of a Long Life (1865) later augmented as
Recollections of a Long Life, 6 vols (1909-1911).
Hon. Augusta Mary Leigh [née Byron] (1783-1851)
Byron's half-sister; the daughter of Amelia Darcy, Baroness Conyers, she married
Lieutenant-Colonel George Leigh on 17 August 1807.
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.
Thomas Phillips (1770-1845)
English painter who assisted Benjamin West, exhibited at the Royal Academy, and painted
portraits of English poets including Byron, Crabbe, Scott, Southey, and Coleridge.
