Richard Edgcumbe - Byron - The Last Phase

Medwin, in his book ‘The Angler in Wales,’ vol. ii., p. 211, says: ‘The right foot, as everyone knows, being twisted inwards, so as to amount to what is generally known as a club-foot.’

Letter to Mr. Gisborne, January 12, 1822. Professor Dowden’s ‘Life of Shelley,’ vol. ii., p. 447.

‘Lord Byron.’

‘Letters and Journals of Lord Byron,’ edited by Rowland Prothero, vol. vi., appendix iii.

‘Life of Shelley,’ vol. ii., p. 494.

Henry Dunn kept a British shop at Leghorn.

For Byron’s opinion of Shelley’s poetry, see appendix to ‘The Two Foscari’: ‘I highly admire the poetry of “Queen Mab” and Shelley’s other publications.’

‘The Angler in Wales,’ by Thomas Medwin, vol. ii., pp. 144-146.

Lady Noel left by her will to the trustees a portrait of Byron, with directions that it was not to be shown to his daughter Ada till she attained the age of twenty-one; but that if her mother were still living, it was not to be so delivered without Lady Byron’s consent.

It was at this time that Byron endeavoured to suppress the fact that he had written ‘The Age of Bronze.’

Dr. Bruno.

Byron’s sobriquet for Walter Scott.

‘Letters and Journals of Lord Byron,’ edited by Rowland Prothero, vol. vi., p. 259.

‘Memoir of Rev. F. Hodgson,’ vol. ii., p. 150.

‘Diary,’ vol. iii., pp. 435, 436.