Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to John Murray, 28 March 1820
“Ravenna, March 28th, 1820.
“Enclosed is a ‘Screed of Doctrine’ for you, of
which I will trouble you to acknowledge the receipt by next post. Mr. Hobhouse must have the correction of it for the
press. You may show it first to whom you please.
“I wish to know what became of my two Epistles from
St. Paul (translated from the Armenian three years
ago and more), and of the letter to R—ts of last
autumn, which you never have attended to? There are two packets with this.
“P.S. I have some thoughts of publishing the ‘Hints from Horace,’ written ten
years ago*,—if Hobhouse can rummage them out
of my papers left at his father’s,—with some omissions and alterations
previously to be made when I see the proofs.”
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.
St Paul (5 c.-67 c.)
Apostle to the Gentiles.
William Roberts (1767-1849)
Educated at Eton, St. Paul's School, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was a Tory
lawyer, editor of the
British Review (1811-22), and biographer of
Hannah More.
