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Sloperton, Chippenham - Concerning the Byron statue.

Stamp on back of H. Parker, Photographer, 26 Lloyd St, Greenheys. MS endorsement: 'Taken at Pisa from life | By Bartholini 1822| Byron he parted his hair in front'.

Harts, Almondsbury, Bristol. - Thanks Bob for sending her his poem ["A Dream"]. Her sister read it twice before she had a chance to see it. Asks if Bob has copies for sale, as she would like a few to send to friends; thinks it 'one of the best things' he has written, on a level with his 'letter to Goldie [Lowes Dickinson]'. Asks what his other friends think of it. His 'powers do not decay', though he 'often scratch[es] his head' and says he does not know what to do. The reconciliation of Lucifer and Christ seems original and interesting; must read "Par[adise] Regained" again. Wishes she could see Bob and talk to him. Finds Lady Bessborough and her family letters 'fascinating', as is everything that 'gets near Byron'; the letters are 'newly published by Lord Bessborough' ["Lady Bessborough and Her Family Circle"], and inspired her to [re-?] read and enjoy Byron. Has also read a new biography of [Edward] Trelawny [by Margaret Armstrong?]. 'That lot and the Wordsworth-Coleridge group never grow stale'. Heard 'scraps of a talk on Hazlitt' by ? on her 'very bad wireless' recently; wishes more of such talks were broadcast.

Originally enclosing notes by Emily Jourdain on Bartolini's bust of Byron.

Impossible that Henry Sidgwick 'should have named anything which would interest [him] more than the Byron' [to be left to Trevelyan?] Refers to one of the poems, the Ode to Napoleon, which is 'exceedingly characteristic of Cowell' and a pleasant reminder of the close friendship that united Cowell, Henry and himself. Has not been in the habit of keeping letters from anyone, but that he has kept, as a bookmark, 'a very tattered letter of Henry's of 1896'; also Henry's last two of May and July 1900, kept 'as priceless possessions.' Also possible that he may find one or two letters written to him at important occasions of his life, as his wife has kept a great many of them. Undertakes to send all that he has.

Enclosing preface to bowdlerised version of Byron's Don Juan.

Milnes's poetry belongs to the school of Tennyson; cannot help loving the style's 'quaint involutions of language into a wierd [sic] music, &... mystical suggestiveness of fancy and thought'. Names favourite verses. Restrictions of didactic element? She herself would create the perfect modern poet from 'Shelley's visionariness & Byron's intensity, admitting Wordsworth's magnanimity of simplicity, & Coleridge's [...". Thanks Kenyon for book; Mrs Hedley will be delighted to hear from him.

Central fragments and end missing.

Florence - heard of Blakesley's Fellowship while in Florence, Marquise Sacrati, Byron - "poetry must be a villainous trade if such a man was at the head of his profession", English character

Two letters from A. C. Benson to the Master of Trinity H. M. Butler in 1907 describing his acquisition of the portrait which had been very dirty, with the appearance of having been used as a target by children and offering it to Trinity, with another letter from S. Taylor to Canon Parry in 1925 concerning the portrait's similarities to Stephen Poyntz Denning's work.

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Glad that Robert found Julian 'so well and stout', and to hear about Aunt Annie [Philips]; as well as Robert's 'report about "darkling". His shoot yesterday was very disappointing; plenty of birds but they only got fifteen and Charles shot all day; once got thirty-nine in a day on the same day while shooting with Thornton [Trevelyan?]. They are waiting for six hundred Newcastle Liberals to arrive; will give lunch to fourteen of them 'of whom 4 are knights or baronets', but will 'take care not to give bite or sup otherwise' since 'the Dorsetshire petition... warns us that hosts must not be Guests' [a pun on Freddie Guest, unseated due to election irregularities by his constituency agent]. Impressed by Byron's 'courage in making "darkle" a verb. But he was an audacious aristocrat.'

Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland. - Thanks Elizabeth for her 'long interesting letter'; hopes she and Robert will now have some quiet weeks. Sir George has had an accident: the nails in his fishing boots made him slip down the doorstep, and he has hurt his elbow badly. At first it was just put in carbolic dressings, but they had to send for the doctor on Friday and Booa [Mary Prestwich] is now kept busy making poultices; the arm is in a sling and Sir George 'gets very low-spirited'. Thinks it is improved today; hopes in a few days it may be 'strapped up with plaister'; fortunately no injury to the bone. George enjoyed himself at Naworth; expects Charles will be back tomorrow. Will keep the list of things left at Gr[osvenor] Cr[escen]t; thinks Elizabeth is right not to take the silver, as Mrs Enticknap does not have time to look after it; always thinks it is a 'pity to give young married people silver' as often it is not suitable. Hoping to visit in October. They are reading some of [Austen's] "Emma" each evening, and have finished the third volume of Byron's letters. Has not got on fast with Santayana, as she has little time for reading, but thinks what she has read 'very interesting'. No shooting since Elizabeth left. Charlotte came to tea yesterday and was sorry to miss her, and the Daylishes [?] called on her last week. Very interesting for Elizabeth to see [Joseph?] Joachim; sounds like a pleasant excursion. Asks how her aunt and cousin Marie are. Tells her not to do 'too much stitching at [her] curtains and take a good walk every day'. Sent her a cream cheese yesterday. Supposes the manuscript came safely.

Concerning plans to move the Byron statue to Cambridge.

On the spine is stamped ‘LETTERS OF LORD BYRON 1813–14’.

Erle, Stoke Park, Westbury, Wiltshire - Concerning the Byron statue's move to Cambridge, and the inscription.

The Shiffolds. - Apologises for not writing lately; is 'only just settled down at home'. Had to go to London on Tuesday and Wednesday. Julian returned to Bedales on Monday, seeming 'very well and cheerful'; Robert was glad to see him for a few days before he went back. Bessie seems well, and enjoyed her trip to the Netherlands, 'though it was a bit tiring seeing so many people in so short a time'.

Is 'very glad' he went to Greece, since he greatly enjoyed his walks in the countryside. Read 'Nicholson's book about Byron [Harold Nicolson's Byron: The Last Journey] and thought it very good'; it made him like Byron more. He 'took care to be out of the way of the Celebrations [of the centenary of Byron's death] and was walking in the Peloponnese at the time'.

Will write to his father soon. Will try to visit before his parents go North: will know in a few days when he can come, and write to fix dates then. Is sorry Pauline 'did not get through [to university?]: but the standard seems very high now, owing to the number of girls who want to get in. Three clever Bedales girls also failed'. Charles and Molly 'seemed very cheerful' when he saw them in London.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Has asked Aunt Anna [Philips] to pass on this letter as 'in these days of rigid economy' it is good to save on a postage stamp. Agrees with Robert's preference for Bobus Smith's verses over Calverley's [both printed in a letter from Sir George to the editor of the "Times Literary Supplement" [November 25, 1920; pg. 778; Issue 984, see also 12/325]. Has just finished [Euripides's] "Medea" again, and is about to re-read the "Bacchae": has now got 'the old man's love of Euripides'; says the "Medea" is to Greek drama as "Othello" is the Elizabethan. Has also been reading the first book of Tacitus's "Histories". Very glad Bessy appreciates [Byron's] "Don Juan"; when they meet he will tell them 'the circumstances in which he once read it aloud'.

Hotel Byron, Ravenna:- Has 'become an invader of Italy for a week'; will then return to Switzerland for a while and find Charlie, who will be with Bertram. Robert left him at Brigne [?], and thought him well: he was 'a little tired' for the first few days, but 'Zermatt quite recovered him'. Tried to persuade him to 'go over the Simplon [Pass]' with him and stop a night in the Lakes, and was sorry not to succeed, as the Lakes are not too hot and Charles would have 'enjoyed the view from Motterone and an evening row on Maggiore'.

Has had many 'adventures': 'crossed the Simplon on the diligence in the company of a New South Wales squatter and gold-digger' and family, who had 'once met Starlight [a reference to Captain Starlight, the bushranger?]'; at Domodossola, he met 'a branch of the great Trevelyan family', who almost 'overwhelmed' him with their 'effusive kindness' - Walter Raleigh Trevelyan, his wife, three daughters, and invalid son, 'the same who dined at the Vice Regal on a famous occasion instead of at the Chief Secs' [a reference to the time when G. O. Trevelyan was Chief Secretary for Ireland?]. Walter is a 'very queer creature, and spends his time grumbling at the way grandpapa - Sir Charles - treated him'; he writes for the Irish Times on Italian crimes.

Robert's 'most interesting experience' was going to see Othello, acted by an Italian company. The people of Ravenna largely supported what Macaulay said an Italian audience's opinion of the play would be, in his essay on Machiavelli, by their 'applauding Iago more than Othello'. The actor playing Othello, however, 'roared too much and was unbearable and unnecessarily violent', though he gave the 'lying speech' well, and played 'the most realistic death [Robert has] ever seen on the stage, accompanied by horrible groans and guggles [gurgles]'.

Has seen almost all the monuments in Ravenna, though will go to [the Basilica of] St Vitalis this afternoon. Went to St Apollinare in Classe yesterday, then on to the pineta - 'Ravenna's immemorial wood' [Don Juan] - and 'Byron's Bridge'. Expects George is in Skye by now; is writing to him. Has not been able to see an English paper since coming here: it is 'quite the end of the world, and there are no shops but "Barbieri" [barbers]', and he was unable to get either an English or Italian text of Othello. Has no idea what is happening in England, as the Italian papers have very little English news; will be able to find out when he returns to Switzerland, and will probably leave on Thursday. Hopes his parents are well; will expect a letter at Mürren.

[Beginning of letter missing]. - About an unknown individual, says 'The detail of reform floors him. It brings out his distrust of any judgment but that of himself & his class'. A bonfire was lit for St. John's Eve [23 Jun] 'on the Kippel [?]... seen no doubt by chill spirits of the mountain perched on the Jung Frau'. So far they have met only one acquaintance, 'an insipid feeble Trinity man', going up the Kippel today 'in boots that may have been patent leathern', with two ladies 'in their Sunday best, who shrieked' when Charles told them they might have to go through over ankle-height snow; did not mention the risk of the reflected sun to their 'pretty untanned skin'.

The journey from Vevey the day before yesterday went well; they travelled by boat to Villeneuve, passing Clarens and Chillon and 'getting more in love with the Lake [Geneva/Léman] than ever'. The Rhone valley was as 'dull as can be', the only remarkable things being a 'beautiful waterfall', he thinks near St. Maurice, and 'a queer sanctum of some monkish order nestling in an almost inaccessible rock'.

Everything is better than expected - 'Bless the weather for it'. Is 'reading with delight' Meredith's Vittoria, [John?] Morley and Byron. Began Carlyle's Cromwell today: 'Ha! Ha! How about 7 volumes'. Soon there will be 'some difficulty' about Italy, since he is 'so determined to get well' that he will not 'go down and be roasted on Como, even if there are no mosquitoes', but Bob is 'bent on going'' there will have to be a compromise by which he crosses a pass with Bob but does not go much further, and lets Bob travel on for a couple of days by himself if he wants. All is however 'amicable' at the moment.

His parents should write to this place when they get this letter: he and Bob are staying at least until Wednesday. Further plans will follow in the next letter. After that will try and write alternately to his parents and George, so there will not be a need to send letters on to or from Skye [where George is going for a holiday]; asks them to send this on to George.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Delighted to hear of what Robert, Elizabeth, and Julian are reading [something by Byron?]; 'curious' how 'such trifles' are only written by people of the calibre of Byron, Scott, Burns and Macaulay; gives several quotations. Gratified by what Robert says about the letter to Lady Desborough [11/199 probably also refers to this]. Robert seems to be confusing separate incidents from Garibaldi's life. Best Christmas wishes to Robert and family. Caroline much 'appreciates and cherishes' Elizabeth's letters.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - Elizabeth seems to have had more snow than they have at Welcombe. Will be very good to see her and Robert again; asks if they will stop a night on the way through London, or prefer to get home then come after they are settled. Is thinking of hosting 'a weekly dinner on Tuesdays in March, & a "small & early for MP's & young people afterwards'; Elizabeth and Robert must come to one. Henry James arrived last night and is 'most amusing & delightful on his American experiences'. Audrey T[revelyan] and the Bells are coming today. She and Sir George go to London on 23 February. Will give Elizabeth her club subscription when she returns; she will then have to make enquiries about which is the best club and change next year; Caroline thinks the Gr[osvenor] Cr[escent] club has 'become very common & inferior'. Is glad Elizabeth saw Shelley's villa; the coast where Byron burnt his body is 'wierd [sic] & beautiful too'. Asks if she has read Mrs Shelley's "Life" of her husband, which Caroline thinks is better than [Edward] Dowden's. Mary has had to give up nursing Pauline, having done too much over the election and got run down. Charlie has accepted the position of Parliamentary Charity Commissioner, which is unpaid and not much work, but 'keeps him "in the running"'.

15 Jermyn St. St. James' - Concerning the Byron statue.

5 Jeffery Square - JB will try and give DK the replies to the queries contained in WW's letter. JB is in no doubt that the independence of Greece over Turkey has been established. The subscriptions obtained from the London Greek Committee have been exhausted. Weapons, skilled people and relevant literature have been sent over. Everything goes via Lord Byron or Col. Stanhope. The greatest assistance we can give is via subscriptions.