Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron
Lord Byron to Edward John Trelawny, 28 August 1822
Genoa, 9m. 28d. 1822.
I enclose you a letter from, and another to, Captain R., which may be more to your taste,
but at any rate it contains all that I have to say on the subject; you will, I
presume, write and inclose it or not, according to your own opinion [it was one
of his long-winded offensive epistles, so I did not send it]. I repeat that I
have no wish for a quarrel, but
if it comes unlooked for,
it must be received accordingly. I recognise no right in any man to interfere
between me and men in my pay, of whose conduct I have the best right to judge.
Yours, ever and afterwards,
Daniel Roberts (1858 fl.)
A retired sea-captain who built the Bolivar for Lord Byron; the son of Henry Roberts (d.
1796) who sailed with Captain Cook, he was corresponding with Edward John Trelawny in
1858.
Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881)
Writer, adventurer, and friend of Shelley and Byron; author of the fictionalized memoirs,
Adventures of a Younger Son (1831) and
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858).