Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 6 June 1813
My dear Hodgson,—I write to you a few lines on business. Murray has thought proper at his own risk, and
peril, and profit (if there be any) to publish the ‘Giaour’; and it may possibly come under
your ordeal in the ‘Monthly,’ I merely wish to state that in the published copies
there are additions to the amount of ten pages, text and
margin (chiefly the last),
which render it a little less unfinished (but more unintelligible) than before.
If, therefore, you review it, let it be from the published copies and not from
the first sketch. I shall not sail for this month, and shall be in town again
next week, when I shall be happy to hear from but more glad to see you. You
know I have no
1 Near Lower Moor, the residence of his
relatives, the Cokes. |
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time or turn for correspondence (!). But you also know, I
hope, that I am not the less
Yours ever,
ΜΠΑΙΡΩΝ.
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).
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.
The Monthly Review. (1749-1844). The original editor was Ralph Griffiths; he was succeeded by his son George Edward who
edited the journal from 1803 to 1825, who was succeeded by Michael Joseph Quin
(1825–32).
