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.
 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).