BIB_ID
364491
Accession number
MA 52.58
Creator
Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, 1800-1873.
Display Date
"Friday morning" [1832?]
Credit line
Acquired before 1923.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Appearing to be a draft copy of a letter referred to in a letter (MA 52.57) to John Murray, possibly written on the same Friday morning.
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron, Lady Byron, Catherine Gordon Byron, Contessa Guiccioli, Ada King Lovelace and others from 1788 to 1855. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron, Lady Byron, Catherine Gordon Byron, Contessa Guiccioli, Ada King Lovelace and others from 1788 to 1855. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary
Appearing to be a draft of a footnote to a publication of "Could Love For Ever" by Lord Byron; concerning his state of mind in writing it; saying it "was written in a moment of great moral and bodily suffering - when he (Ld Byron) wanted to take the resolution to leave Italy. This step which he thought his duty to take costed him the greatest sacrifice of feelings - and he wrote such verses (as occasionally he did in different circumstances) not for publication but only for relieving his mind and give himself the strength he wanted but which he could not find, though in the very day and hour in which they were written he was under the influence of a periodical fever -- a circumstance which may sufficiently explain the indifference of such a composition, which he esteemed so unworthy of being published that he threw it among other useless papers in a corner of his room -- where having been founded by chance and finally given to the public." .
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