Scott to Byron, from the White Horse, Piccadilly, September 13th 1815:
(Source: text from Grierson 1832-1832, pp.424-5)
MY DEAR LORD
,—We are at present guests with some old friends from whom I cannot easily
disengage myself so soon as tomorrow evening. But I am much more desirous to see you than Kean or
Garrick if he could be called to life again.
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Murray tells me you are to be in his shop by three o’clock
when I hope to have the pleasure I have long wished [for] of making your personal acquaintance. I beg
your Lorship to accept (though a late) a most sincere congratulation upon your late change of
condition.
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I am with much respect and regard your Lordship’s most faithful and obliged
WALTER SCOTT
CORNER WHITE HORSE STREET PICADILLY
Scott to Byron, from Edinburgh, January 5th 1816:
(Source: text from NLS Ms.42537; Grierson 1815-17 pp.161-2)
[The Right Honble / Lord Byron / &c &c &c / Piccadilly London]
My dear Lord Byron
I had an early visit from a fair lady this morning who was in great anxiety lest a
paragraph, which had appeared in one of our papers should appear to Lady Byron or you to have
been inserted with her knowledge, or with the presumptuous purpose of converting your
kindness into the foundation of a theatrical puff – M
rs
. Henry Siddons,
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who thinks on this and
other subjects very like a lady, seems particularly distressed at the indiscreet zeal of the friend,
who, in a sincere wish to serve her, has injudiciously and, as she thinks, indelicately brought
into view circumstances of private attention, which, while she feels the honour attending them,
are not proper to be paraded before the public. I had no hesitation to say that I thought it
impossible your Lordship or Lady Byron would attach any consequence to this
blunder of a good friend of mine, who is a zealous admirer of M
rs
. Siddons & the Drama as well
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