Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to John Murray, 19 January 1818
“Venice, January 19th, 1818.
“I send you the Story† in three other separate covers.
It won’t do for your Journal, being full of political allusions. Print alone, without
* “Vide your letter.” † Beppo. |
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name; alter nothing; get a scholar to see that the Italian phrases are correctly published (your printing, by the
way, always makes me ill with its eternal blunders, which are incessant), and God speed
you. Hobhouse left Venice a fortnight ago, saving
two days. I have heard nothing of or from him.
“Yours, &c.
“He has the whole of the MSS.; so put up prayers in your
back shop, or in the printer’s ‘Chapel.’”
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).
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.
