Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley to Lord Byron, 15 February 1823
February 15th, 1823.
“MY DEAR LORD BYRON,
“I enclose you a letter from Hunt, which annoys me on more than one account. You will observe the
postscript, and you know me well enough to feel how painful a task is set me in
commenting upon it. Hunt had urged me more than once to ask you to
lend him this money. My answer consisted in sending him all I could spare, which I have
now literally done. Your kindness in fitting up a part of your own
* See Letter CCCXVII, page 176. |
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house for his accommodation I sensibly felt, and
willingly accepted from you on his part, but, believe me, without the slightest
intention of imposing, or, if I could help it, allowing to be imposed, any heavier task
on your purse. As it has come to this in spite of my exertions, I will not conceal from
you the low ebb of my own money affairs in the present moment,—that is, my absolute
incapacity of assisting Hunt farther.
“I do not think poor Hunt’s promise to pay in a given time is worth very much; but mine
is less subject to uncertainty, and I should be happy to be responsible for any
engagement he may have proposed to you. I am so much annoyed by this subject that I
hardly know what to write, and much less what to say; and I have need of all your
indulgence in judging both my feelings and expressions.
“I shall see you by and by. Believe me,
“Yours most faithfully and sincerely,
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
English poet, journalist, and man of letters; editor of
The
Examiner and
The Liberal; friend of Byron, Keats, and
Shelley.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
English poet, with Byron in Switzerland in 1816; author of
Queen
Mab (1813),
The Revolt of Islam (1817),
The Cenci and
Prometheus Unbound (1820), and
Adonais (1821).
