The Creevey Papers
Lord Lauderdale to Thomas Creevey, [February? 1819]
“London, no date [1819].
“. . . Lord
Lascelles’ son has married Harriet Wilson’s sister: Lord
Langford’s—an old wretch of the name of
Aylmer, and there are some people who express a dread
that young Whitbread will marry a woman
who lives with him. Lord Byron’s
poem,* which I brought to England,
is returned to Venice. Murray the
Bookseller is afraid of printing it. Rogers’s Poem, entitled ‘Human Life,’ is favorably talked of.
Poor man, he treats himself upon these occasions as a woman does: he has shut
himself up, and seems to think it necessary not to go out till his month is
up.”
Henry Lascelles, second earl of Harewood (1767-1841)
Son of the first earl (d. 1820); he was Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding, Yorkshire,
and a Tory MP for Yorkshire (1796-1806), Westbury (1807-12), and Northallerton
(1818-20).
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.
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).
Samuel Charles Whitbread (1796-1879)
Of Southill Park, Bedfordshire, the son of the politician (d. 1815); he was a Whig MP for
Middlesex (1820-30), justice of the peace and F.R.S.
Harriette Wilson [née Dubouchet] (1786-1845)
English courtesan given to blackmailing her admirers; she was author of
Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, written by Herself, 4 vols (1825).
George Gordon Byron, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Don Juan. (London: 1819-1824). A burlesque poem in ottava rima published in installments: Cantos I and II published in
1819, III, IV and V in 1821, VI, VII, and VIII in 1823, IX, X, and XI in 1823, XII, XIII,
and XIV in 1823, and XV and XVI in 1824.
