Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Lady Caroline Lamb to Lady Morgan, [October 1825?]
Dover.
My dear Lady Morgan,
It would be charitable in you to write me a letter, and
it would be most kind if you would immediately send me Lord Byron’s portrait, as far more than the six weeks
have expired, and I am again in England. ![]()
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If you will send
it for me to Melbourne House, to the care of the porter, I shall be most
sincerely obliged to you. My situation in life, now, is new and strange—I
seem to be left to my fate most completely, and to take my chance, or rough or
smooth, without the smallest interest being expressed for me. It is for good
purposes, no doubt; besides I must submit to my fate—it being without
remedy. I am now with my maid at the Ship Tavern, Water Lane, having come over
from Calais. I have no servants, page, carriage, horse, nor fine
rooms—the melancholy of my situation in this little dreary apartment is
roused by the very loud, jovial laughter of my neighbours, who are smoking in
the next room. Pray send me my invaluable portrait, and pray think kindly of
me; every one in France talked much of you, and with great enthusiasm.
Farewell; remember me to your husband and family, and believe me
Most truly yours,
PS. Direct to me care of the Honourable William Ponsonby, St.
James’s Square, London.
I hope you received a letter from me written before
I left England.
Lady Caroline Lamb [née Ponsonby] (1785-1828)
Daughter of the third earl of Bessborough; she married the Hon. William Lamb (1779-1848)
and fictionalized her infatuation with Lord Byron in her first novel,
Glenarvon (1816).
