Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 18 May 1814
“Thanks—and punctuality. What has
passed at * * * * House? I suppose that I am to
know, and ‘pars fui’ of the conference. I regret that
your * * * *s will detain you so late, but I suppose you will be at
Lady Jersey’s. I am going earlier with
Hobhouse. You recollect that tomorrow we sup
and see Kean.
“P.S. Two to-morrow is the hour of
pugilism.”
John Cam Hobhouse, baron Broughton (1786-1869)
Founder of the Cambridge Whig Club; traveled with Byron in the orient, radical MP for
Westminster (1820); Byron's executor; after a long career in politics published
Some Account of a Long Life (1865) later augmented as
Recollections of a Long Life, 6 vols (1909-1911).
Edmund Kean (1787-1833)
English tragic actor famous for his Shakespearean roles.
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.
