“I hear this morning that the design, which certainly had
been in contemplation, of burning my fellow-serpent, has been abandoned, and that he has
been condemned to the galleys. Lord Guilford is at
A. D. 1822.
LIFE OF LORD BYRON.
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Leghorn; and as your courier applied to me to know
whether he ought to leave your letter for him or not, I have thought it best since this
information to tell him to take it back.
Frederick North, fifth earl of Guilford (1766-1827)
Son of the prime minister; he was governor of Ceylon (1798-1805) and an enthusiastic
philhellene who founded the Ionian University at Corfu. He succeeded to the title in
1817.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
English poet, with Byron in Switzerland in 1816; author of Queen
Mab (1813), The Revolt of Islam (1817), The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound (1820), and Adonais (1821).
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Author: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852
Title:Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830).
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