Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
, and other works, which he professed to have bought from Byron for £500.
According to Gronow (
Reminiscences
, vol. i. p. 153, 154), Scrope Davies, asked to give his private opinion of Byron, said that he considered him
"very agreeable and clever, but vain, overbearing, suspicious, and jealous. Byron hated Palmerston, but liked Peel, and thought that the whole world ought to be constantly employed in admiring his poetry and himself."
[cross-reference: return to Footnote 12 of Letter 83]