Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to John Murray, 10 August 1821
“Ravenna, August 10th, 1821.
“Your conduct to Mr.
Moore is certainly very handsome; and I would not say so if I could help
it, for you are not at present by any means in my good graces.
“With regard to additions, &c. there is a Journal which I kept in 1814 which you may ask
him for; also a Journal, which you must get ![]()
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from
Mrs. Leigh, of my journey in the Alps, which
contains all the germs of Manfred. I
have also kept a small Diary here for a few months last winter, which I would send you,
and any continuation. You would find easy access to all my papers and letters, and do
not neglect this (in case of accidents), on account of the
mass of confusion in which they are; for out of that chaos of papers you will find some
curious ones of mine and others, if not lost or destroyed. If circumstances, however
(which is almost impossible), made me ever consent to a publication in my lifetime, you
would in that case, I suppose, make Moore some
advance, in proportion to the likelihood or non-likelihood of success. You are both sure
to survive me, however.
“You must also have from Mr. Moore the correspondence
between me and Lady B., to whom I offered the sight of all which regards herself in
these papers. This is important. He has her letter, and a copy of
my answer. I would rather Moore edited me than another.
“I sent you Valpy’s letter to decide for yourself, and Stockdale’s to amuse you. I am always loyal with
you, as I was in Galignani’s affair, and
you with me—now and then.
“I return you Moore’s letter, which is very creditable to him, and you, and me.
“Yours ever.”
Giovanni Antonio Galignani (1757-1821)
Bookseller and from 1814 publisher of
Galignani's Messenger, an
English newspaper issued from Paris.
Hon. Augusta Mary Leigh [née Byron] (1783-1851)
Byron's half-sister; the daughter of Amelia Darcy, Baroness Conyers, she married
Lieutenant-Colonel George Leigh on 17 August 1807.
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.
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.
John Joseph Stockdale (1777-1847)
London bookseller who operated a shop in Pall Mall between 1807 and 1822; in 1825 he
achieved notoriety by publishing the
Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854)
Son of the Reading schoolmaster Richard Valpy, he was a London printer who specialized in
classical texts. With the poet George Dyer he published 141 volumes of Delphin classics
(1819-30).
