Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Lord Liverpool to James Hodgson, 23 December 1807
Hertford Street: Dec. 23, 1807
Dear Sir,—I received the evening before last the
present you sent me of your translation of Juvenal. I have hitherto had time only to peruse the
Preface: it is replete with good erudition, and with many sagacious remarks. I
have no doubt that this work will do you great credit, and that I shall also
derive some credit from your having done me the honour of dedicating it to me.
I am, with great truth,
Your faithful, humble servant,
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).
