Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, [May 1814?]
“Will you and Rogers
come to my box at Covent, then? I shall be there, and none else—or I won’t be
there, if you twain would like to go without me. You will not get
so good a place hustling among the publican boxers, with damnable
apprentices (six feet high) on a back row. Will you both oblige me and come—or one—or
neither—or, what you will?
“P.S. An’ you will, I will call for you at
half-past six, or any time of your own dial.”
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).
