In the first edition of Moore's Life of Lord Byron there was printed a letter on Sir Samuel Romilly, so brutal that it was suppressed in the subsequent editions. (See Part III.)
[10] Vol. iv. p. 40.
[11] Ibid. p. 46.
[12] The italics are mine.
[13] Vol. iv. p 143.
[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.'
'And I, who with them on the cross am placed,
... truly
My savage wife, more than aught else, doth harm me.'
Inferno, Canto, XVI., Longfellow's translation.
[16] 'Conversations,' p. 108.