Evidence: | 'With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is executed, and after the momentary pain in part which it excites in many a bosom, will live in despight [sic] of censure and be gratefully accepted by the Public as long as Lord Byron's name is remembered--yet as you have left to one who adored him a little legacy and as I feel secure the lines "remember thee-thou false to him then friend time"--were his--and as I have been very ill I am not likely to trouble any one much longer--you will I am sure grant me one favour--let me to you at least confide the truth of the past--you owe it to me--you will not I know refuse me [...] Still I love him [Byron]--witness the agony I experienced at his death & the tears your book has cost me. Yet, Sir, allow me to say, although you have unitentionally given me pain I had rather have experienced it than not have read your book. Parts of it are beautiful, and I can vouch for the truth of much as I read his own memoirs before Murray burnt them.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1824 and 30 Nov 1824 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Lady Caroline Lamb |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1785 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | socialite, novelist, inflential member of the Whig political elite |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n?e Ponsonby |
Author: | Thomas Medwin |
Title: | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron |
Genre: | Poetry, Biography, Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Henry Colburn, 1824 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 10005 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby) | |
Editor: | Paul Douglass | |
Title: | The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Place of Publication: | New York | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 201-203 | |
Additional comments: | Letter to Thomas Medwin November 1824. |
Citation: | Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby), Paul Douglass (ed.), The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb (New York, 2006), n/a, p. 201-203, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10005, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Lady Caroline's letter tries to correct many of the misconceptions about her relationship with Byron that Medwin's book had propagated. The lines she misquotes are from Byron's poem "Remember Thee", which was published in Medwin's book. |
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