fim s ministur. 17. Charles Hayter painted in 1812.

The Works

OF

LORD BYRON.

A NEW, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION,
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

Letters and Journals. Vol. III.

EDITED BY

ROWLAND E. PROTHERO, M.A., M.V.O.,

FORMERLY FELLOW OF ALL SOULS COLLEGE, OXFORD.

(SECOND IMPRESSION.)

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

1904.

UNIVERSITY OF
MINNESOTA

:

PREFACE.

BETWEEN January, 1814, and November, 1816, Halleck's
American edition of Byron's Works (1849), hitherto the
most complete collection, prints 115 letters.
number the present edition adds 118.

To this

Of the 233 letters contained in the text of Volume III., 146 have been collated with the originals. In this number are included all the new letters, with the exception of those to Miss Milbanke.

There remain 87 letters, the originals of which have not been obtained. These are the letters to Moore (49), Leigh Hunt (11), Miss Milbanke (6), Ashe (1), Merivale (1), Dallas (1), Hodgson (2), [Reynolds] (1), Cowell (1), Nathan (2), Dibdin (3), Taylor (2), Drury (1), Sotheby (2), Hogg (1), the Countess of (1), Lady Byron (1), Madame de Staël (1). All these letters, with the exception of those to Miss Milbanke, have been previously published.

The 15 letters, or extracts from letters, from Byron to Miss Milbanke, given in the text or in Appendix III., are printed, for the first time, from copies made by the Earl of Lovelace.

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