Lady Morgan’s Memoirs
Lady Morgan to Elizabeth Moore, 27 May 1852
William Street, Albert Gate,
May 27, 1852.
My dear Mrs. Moore,
In looking over some letters the other day, of the year
’46, I found a note of dear Mr.
Moore’s, which I ![]()
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have copied and
sent you, knowing how useful and precious even the most
trifling memorandum becomes, when collecting materials for the life of
an illustrious person. I do not like to part with the autograph; though, if I
had strength or sight, I am sure I should find many of his little notes written
in “Auld Lang Syne,” when he lived in the same gay circle in
Dublin, and afterwards met in England, France and Italy. He was a good deal
with us in Florence.
I assure you, my dear Mrs.
Moore, I rejoice to hear, and from
yourself that you are so well circumstanced, in a worldly point of
view; and the Memoirs, edited by Lord John
Russell, will, I am sure, prove a mine. And should business,
connected with that most interesting publication, bring you to town, I shall be
delighted to see you, in any way most desirable to you.
My house is small, but I can offer you a tidy little bedroom, though rather loftily situated.
Mr. Rogers called here yesterday, but I
was unluckily out. The last time I saw him, though very helpless, he was in good force and spirits, and narrated with his usual precision and
accuracy.
I am, my dear Mrs. Moore,
Most truly yours,
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.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
English poet, banker, and aesthete, author of the ever-popular
Pleasures of Memory (1792),
Columbus (1810),
Jaqueline (1814), and
Italy (1822-28).
John Russell, first earl Russell (1792-1878)
English statesman, son of John Russell sixth duke of Bedford (1766-1839); he was author
of
Essay on the English Constitution (1821) and
Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe (1824) and was Prime Minister (1865-66).
