Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 7 February 1821
St. James’s Palace: February 7, 1821.
Dear Mr.
Hodgson,—I have received the book through Murray, a short time after the arrival of your
kind letter. Whenever I have had anything to forward Mr.
Murray has been my resource, and I suppose there can be no
objection to my sending it through him, not saying from whom I received it, ![]()
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as I have often those sorts of
commissions. I have sent to ask him if he knows of any early opportunity, and
pray never suppose that apology is needful, for making me either of use or
comfort, if that is possible. I do not know a word as to B.’s probabilities of remaining or not at
Ravenna. He has not lately said anything to me of his intentions on those
subjects, but I recommend you to direct your letter to him there paste restante, or I will enclose it in one of mine
if you please. Many thanks, dear Mr.
H., for your kindness in giving me such early information of the
pleasing contents of your despatch from B. I wish he
communicated more frequently with one who is so truly his friend, but I look
upon his doing so now as a good symptom among some others which I have lately
remarked. Whether it amounts to more than being in good humour I cannot
determine; but I am (luckily for myself) of a hoping
disposition, and I trust it is. not presumptuous to do so in this instance.
I am so hurried for post, having been interrupted, that I
can only say, truly yours,
A. L.
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.
