Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy. Stowe Harriet Beecher

14

Lord Byron took especial pains to point out to Murray the importance of these two letters. Vol. V. Letter 443, he says: 'You must also have from Mr. Moore the correspondence between me and Lady B., to whom I offered a sight of all that concerns herself in these papers. This is important. He has her letter and my answer.'

15

'And I, who with them on the cross am placed,… trulyMy savage wife, more than aught else, doth harm me.' Inferno, Canto, XVI., Longfellow's translation.

16

'Conversations,' p. 108.

17

Murray's edition of 'Byron's Works,' Vol. ii. p. 189; date of dedication to Hobhouse, Jan. 2, 1818.

18

Recently, Lord Lindsay has published another version of this story, which makes it appear that he has conversed with a lady who conversed with Hobhouse during his lifetime, in which this story is differently reported. In the last version, it is made to appear that Hobhouse had this declaration from Lady Byron herself.

19

The references are to the first volume of the first edition of Moore's Life', originally published by itself.

20

'The officious spies of his privacy,' p. 650.

21

'The deserted husband,' p. 651.

22

'I (Campbell) had not time to ask Lady Byron's permission to print this private letter; but it seemed to me important, and I have published it meo periculo.'