Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Thomas Moore to Francis Hodgson, 1 August 1828
Sloperton Cottage: August 1, 1828.
My dear Hodgson,—Having the enclosed letters of Byron’s to send you I waited for a frank,
and have unluckily got one at a moment when there is hardly time to accompany
it with more than a word or two. The receipt of your last letter gave me the
sincerest pleasure. . . .
I have all along advised Power not to hesitate on price with Mrs. Arkwright, and, from what I last heard from him, it
appears he has left it to her to name her own terms, which will, I trust, get
over all difficulty.
I proceed very slowly with Byron, from various distractions; but as soon as I come to his
correspondence with me and Murray, the
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paste will come into play, and I shall cover
space most rapidly.
Ever yours, my dear
Hodgson, most truly,
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).
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Irish poet and biographer, author of the
Irish Melodies (1807-34),
The Fudge Family in Paris (1818), and
Lalla
Rookh (1817); he was Byron's close friend and designated biographer.
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.
James Power (1766-1836)
Dublin music publisher who moved to London in 1807 where he issued Moore's
Irish Melodies (1808-34).
