Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to John Murray, 13 April 1822
“Mr. Kinnaird writes
that there has been an ‘excellent
Defence’ of ‘Cain,’ against ‘Oxoniensis:’ you have sent me nothing but a not very excellent of-fence of the same poem. If there be such a ‘Defender of
the Faith,’ you may send me his thirty-nine articles, as a counterbalance to some
of your late communications.
“Are you to publish, or not, what Moore and Mr.
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hand, and the ‘Vision of Judgment?’ If you publish
the latter in a very cheap edition, so as to baffle the pirates by a low price, you will
find that it will do. The ‘Mystery’ I look upon as good, and ‘Werner’ too, and I expect that you will publish
them speedily. You need not put your name to Quevedo, but publish
it as a foreign edition, and let it make its way. Douglas Kinnaird
has it still, with the preface, I believe.
“I refer you to him for documents on the late row here. I
sent them a week ago.
“Yours, &c.”
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.
Henry John Todd (1763-1845)
English clergyman and antiquary; he edited the
Works of Milton, 6
vols (1801), and the
Works of Spenser, 8 vols (1805).
