I am buried in an abyss of Sensuality , I have renounced hazard however , but I am given to Harlots , and live in a state of Concubinage , I am at this moment under a course of restoration by Pearson's prescription , for a debility ...
Leslie A. Marchand's great edition of Byron's letters and journals, published between 1973 and 1981, included every letter then available, all of them unbowdlerized and many published for the first...
Byron's personal writings reveal vividly his family relationships, friendships, interests, and concerns
22 Alexander Scott MS . ... 27 John Murray Text : LJ , IV , 354 224 Oct. 2 Alexander Scott MS . Pierpont Morgan Library 224 Oct. 3 John Cam Hobhouse MS . Murray 225 Oct. 3 John Murray Text : Hobhouse Proof 227 Oct. 5 J. Wedderburn MS .
George Gordon Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness...
In this volume Byron corresponds with writers such as Thomas Moore, Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, and "Monk" Lewis; and with John Murray about the publication of The Corsair, Lara, and The Hebrew Melodies.