1 BYRON’S CORRESPONDENCE AND JOURNALS 03: FROM LONDON AND OTHER PLACES IN ENGLAND, JULY 1811-DECEMBER 1813 Edited by Peter Cochran Abbreviations B.: Byron; Mo: Moore; H.: Hobhouse; K.: Kinnaird; Mu.: Murray 1922: Lord Byron’s Correspondence Chiefly with Lady Melbourne, Mr Hobhouse, The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, and P.B.Shelley (2 vols., John Murray 1922). BB: Byron’s Bulldog: The Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron, ed. Peter W.Graham (Columbus Ohio 1984) BLJ: Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals . Ed. Leslie A. Marchand, 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94. CMP: Lord Byron: The Complete Miscellaneous Prose . Ed. Andrew Nicholson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. CSS: The Life and Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey , ed. C.C.Southey, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 6 vols 1849-1850. Dowden: The Letters of Thomas Moore . Ed. Wilfred Dowden, 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964. Gross: Byron’s Corbeau Blanc: The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne , Ed. Jonathan David Gross, Rice University Press, 1997 LJ: The Works of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals . Ed. R. E. Prothero, 6 vols. London: John Murray, 1899-1904. LJM: The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron . Ed. Andrew Nicholson, Liverpool University Press, 2007. Q: Byron: A Self-Portrait; Letters and Diaries 1798 to 1824 . Ed. Peter Quennell, 2 vols, John Murray, 1950. Smiles: Samuel Smiles. A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the late John Murray with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 . 2 vols. London John Murray 1891. Codes: Names of writer and recipient are in bold type, with location from which sent, and date. (Source is given in round brackets beneath the title: “text from” indicates that the actual source has been seen). Where the manuscript is the source, the text is left-justified only. Where the source is a book, the text is left- and right-justified. [The address, if there is one, is given in square brackets beneath the source] “1:2” and so on indicates a page-turn on the bifolium. “1:2 and 1:3 blank” shows that not all the paper has been used. If Byron goes on to a second bifolium, or a second sheet, it’s an occasion. The address, if there is no envelope, is normally in the centre of 1:4. <Authorial deletion> <xxxxx> Irrecoverable authorial deletion <deleted> Infra-red and ultra-violet might reveal something interesting {Interlineated word or phrase} E[ditoria]l A[dditio]n [ ] Illegible Hyphens: where Byron has split a word over two sides, and used a double hyphen, the effect has been re= / =tained. But, as the text is not transcribed on a line-for-line basis (except in the case of Susan Vaughan’s letters (for reasons explained at January 12th 1812), hyphens are not used when he splits a word over two lines. See April 3rd 1819 for another letter transcribed line-for-line. Underlining: sometimes Byron underlines a whole word, sometimes single syllables (for comical effect, as in “Quarterlyers ”), sometimes an entire phrase, and sometimes part of a word (from haste). In all cases except the last, where the whole word is underlined, we have tried to keep to his usage, underlining with a single understroke , with two understrokes , with a heavy underlining , or with a decorative line . 2 Signatures: As time goes on, Byron’s signature becomes less careful, but then recovers. Few of his ways of signing off can be conveyed in print. “Byron ” indicates a word whose second syllable is both underlined and overlined. “BN ” indicates those two letters with different degrees of dash-decoration around them. Sometimes they appear Greek. “[ swirl signature ]” indicates a bird’s-nest effect which can with charity be read as a capital “B”. “[ scrawl ]” is a long wavy line, often starting as “y rs ” but with no other letters decipherable. After the death of Lady Noel, Byron regains pride in his name, and often signs “N. B. ” with a decorative underlining. Byron’s Most Important Correspondents in this Section Annabella Milbanke (1792-1860), the future Lady Byron Augusta Byron, now Augusta Leigh (1783-1851) Byron’s half-sister; the most important woman in his life Catherine Gordon Byron (1765-1811), Byron’s mother; dies, August 1811 Charles Skinner Matthews (17??-1811), gay Cambridge friend of Byron; dies, August 1811 Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822), much-travelled Cambridge don Elizabeth Massingberd (17??-1812), Byron’s landlady who introduced him to moneylenders Frances Wedderburn Webster (17??-18??), wife to James Francis Hodgson (1781-1852), Cambridge friend of Byron Henry Drury (1778-1841), another Harrow friend of Byron Henry Fox (17??-18??) lame son of Lord Holland. Future lover of Teresa Guiccioli. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), radical journalist James Wedderburn Webster (17??-18??), inept friend of Byron John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), Byron’s close friend and travelling companion John Galt (1779-1839), Scots novelist and playwright John Hanson (17??-1841), Byron’s solicitor and surrogate father John Murray II (1778-1843), Byron’s publisher, 1812-23 Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), briefly Byron’s lover Lady Melbourne (1751-1818), Byron’s confidante Lord Holland (1773-1840), leader of the Whigs in the Lords; nephew of Charles James Fox Madame de Staël (1766-1817), French authoress Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), author of The Monk and The Castle Spectre Mercer Elphinstone (17??-18??) London’s richest heiress, daughter of Admiral Keith Robert Charles Dallas (1754-1824), Byron’s early literary adviser, who introduces him to John Murray Robert Rushton (17??-18??), Byron’s page Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), English poet, friend of Byron Scrope Berdmore Davies (1782-1852), close Cambridge friend of Byron who lent him money for his Mediterranean travels and is now regretting it Susan Vaughan (17??-18??), maidservant at Newstead, briefly Byron’s lover The Marquis of Sligo (1788-1845), Cambridge friend of Byron Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish poet, close friend of Byron Walter Scott (1771-1832), the only British writer to rival Byron in fame during this period William Clark (17??-18??), Cambridge don William Gifford (1756-1826), Murray’s principal literary adviser; Byron’s “literary father” INDEX: 284 letters. Selections from the letters of Robert Southey Byron to Mrs Catherine Gordon Byron, from Reddish’s Hotel, London, July 23rd 1811 Byron to John Hanson, from Reddish’s Hotel, London, July 24th 1811 Byron to John Hanson, from Reddish’s Hotel, London, July 28th 1811 First note from Byron to John Hanson, July 31st 1811 Second note from Byron to John Hanson, July 31st 1811 Byron to C.S.Matthews, from Reddish’s Hotel, St. James’s Street, July 31st 1811 Charles Skinner Matthews to John Cam Hobhouse, from Trinity College Cambridge, late July 1811 Byron to John Hanson, from 8 St. James’s Street, London, August 2nd 1811 3 Hanson’s noteByron to John Pigot, from Newport Pagnell, August 2nd 1811 Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead Abbey, August 4th 1811 Scrope Berdmore Davies to Byron, from Limmer’s Hotel, Conduit Street London, August 5th or 6th 1811 Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, from Newstead Abbey, August 7th 1811 Byron to Samuel Bolton, from Newstead Abbey, August 12th 1811 Byron to Samuel Bolton, from Newstead Abbey, August 16th 1811 Byron to Samuel Bolton, from Newstead Abbey, August 20th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead, August 21st 1811 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Newstead Abbey, August 22nd 1811 Byron to John Murray, from Newstead Abbey, August 23rd 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, August 25th 1811 Augusta Leigh to Byron, from Six Mile Bottom, August 30th 1811 Scrope Berdmore Davies to Byron, from Harrogate, September 1811 Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, from Newstead Abbey, September 2nd 1811 Byron to Augusta Leigh, from Newstead Abbey, September 2nd 1811 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Newstead Abbey, September 3rd 1811 John Murray to Byron, from London, September 4th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead, September 4th 1811 Byron to John Murray, from Newstead Abbey, September 5th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, September 7th 1811 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Newstead, September 9th 1811 Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead, September 10th 1811 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Newstead Abbey, September 13th 1811 Byron to John Murray, from Newstead Abbey, September 14th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead, September 15th 1811 Byron to John Hanson, from 8, St. James’s Street, London, September 15th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, September 16th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, September 17th 1811 (a) Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, September 17th 1811 (b) Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Newstead Abbey, September 25th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, September 26th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, October 11th 1811 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Newstead Abbey, October 13th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, October 14th 1811 (a) Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, October 14th 1811 (b) Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Newstead Abbey, October 16th 1811 Thomas Moore to Byron, from 27, Bury Street, St. James’s, London, October 22nd 1811: Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Newstead Abbey, October 25th 1811 Byron to Thomas Moore, from Cambridge, October 27th 1811 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from 8, St. James’s Street, London, October 28th 1811 Byron to Mrs Pigot, from Cambridge, October 28th 1811 Byron to Thomas Moore, from St James’s Street, London, October 29th 1811 Thomas Moore to Byron, from 27, Bury Street, St.