Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1822
“I return you the revise. I have softened the part to which
Gifford objected, and changed the name of
Michael to Raphael, who was an angel of gentler sympathies. By the way, recollect to
alter Michael to Raphael in the scene itself
throughout, for I have only had time to do so in the list of the dramatis personæ, and
scratch out all the pencil-marks, to avoid puzzling the
printers. I have given the ‘Vision of Quevedo Redivivus’ to John Hunt, which will relieve you from a dilemma. He must
publish it at his own risk, as it is at his own desire. Give him
the corrected copy which Mr.
Kinnaird had, as it is mitigated partly, and also the preface.
“Yours, &c.”
William Gifford (1756-1826)
Poet, scholar, and editor who began as a shoemaker's apprentice; after Oxford he
published
The Baviad (1794),
The Maeviad
(1795), and
The Satires of Juvenal translated (1802) before becoming
the founding editor of the
Quarterly Review (1809-24).
John Hunt (1775-1848)
English printer and publisher, the elder brother of Leigh Hunt; he was the publisher of
The Examiner and
The Liberal, in
connection with which he was several times prosecuted for libel.
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.
