| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Wi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Charles Dallas | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositio... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Brougham | [speech] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi mo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Horace | Ode ("Exegi monumentum") | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon | advertisement for Scott, The Lady of The Lake | Print: Advertisement, NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Galt | Fair Shepherdess, The | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Even... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Horace | De Arte Poetica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... ' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James and Horace Smith | Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace | Print: Book |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sir Egerton Brydges | The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical and sentimental Essays | Print: Book |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webst... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster | letter with poem | Manuscript: Letter |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with hi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Frederick Cooke | Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ...... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Glenbervie | Prospectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to l... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [Italian] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the ba... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, an... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Christoph von Schiller | The Robbers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and tol... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Anti-Byron | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | Quarrels of Authors | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Chardin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Matteo Bandello | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the begi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Herman Merivale | Orlando in Roncesvalles | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | The Feast of the Poets | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [ministerial gazettes] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Deborah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Anti-Byron | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Frances Burney | The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Jeffrey | review of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... ' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies (1814) | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Stratford Canning | Bonaparte | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a fore... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [Roman History] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [article] | Unknown |
| | Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appea... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Murray | [advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (joint publication)] | Print: AdvertisementManuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Charles Dallas [?] | [poem] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814:
'the best thing of that kind I met w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [history book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to f... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (allud... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Porson | Letters to Archdeacon Travis | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepte... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the c... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, all... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must no... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [packet] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Annual Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [daily newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I als... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Byron family pedigree | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | The Story of Rimini (Canto 3) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly --... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [paper on the Methodists] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Byron | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Novelle Amorose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Animali Parlante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am stru... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remembe... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Edmund Ludlow | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Margaret de Thomas | epitaph to Edmund Ludlow | Manuscript: tombstone epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Christoph von Schiller | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | [inscription on rock] | Manuscript: inscriptionUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | review of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | H. Gally Knight | Ilderim: A Syrian Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Pamphleteer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the corresponde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de Borgia | letters | Manuscript: Letter, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Siste... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | "book treating of the Rhine" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | ["the Italian version of the French papers"] | Print: Newspaper |
| | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Quarterly Review | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ...... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Review of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon, a Dream, and other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 vol... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litterarie Typographique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between... | George Gordon Lord Byron | St. Paul | Epistles to Corinthians | Print: BookUnknown |
| | Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Can... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspaper] | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the st... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johan Christoph von Schiller | Geisterseher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glen... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Childe Harold Canto III | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Holland | Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They ar... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Aeschylus | Prometheus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know wheth... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Belgrave Hoppner | Elegy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Rev. William Beloe | The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertain... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Reviews] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [obituary] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Stewart Rose | The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely translated from the Animali Parlanti of Casti | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Italian Gazettes] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his revie... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | The Literary Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | The Literary Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have see... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | The Friends: a Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count Vittorio Alfieri | [marginalia] | Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benvenuto da Imola | Commentary on Dante, Commedia | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read thi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Countess Teresa Guiccioli | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [poems] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | A Legend of Montrose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the pa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsch... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | German periodicals | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to orde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Marino Sanuto | "Italian history of the Doges of Venice" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | "Siege of Zara" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Pierre Antoine Daru | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Charles Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Matthews | Diary of an Invalid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometim... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish la... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count Giulio Perticari | Dell'amor patrio di Dante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jane Waldie | Sketches Descriptive of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquen... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [speeches] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | papers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers men... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [poetry] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Guiseppe Bossi | Del Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (3rd series) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Xenophon | Retreat of the Ten Thousand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- r... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Xenophon | Retreat of the Ten Thousand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Pierre Louis Ginguene | Histoire Litteraire de l'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Holland | Lope de Vega | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and re... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Roscoe | The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series o... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (2nd series) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Lugano Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned ov... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | The Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | accounts | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | various | Lives of poets | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | unknown | |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Gray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Poets] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expres... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon. | Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Milton | Sabrina Fair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guid... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Franz Grillparzer | Sappho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Schiller | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Christoph Martin Wieland | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the ope... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Seneca | tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Seneca | tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Diodorus Siculus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lom... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [various books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Rea... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Corr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remark... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I hav... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Co... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Ed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Lisle Bowles | various | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Louis Buonaparte | Documents Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouvernement de la Hollande | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned .... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not wr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Roman history | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Italian newspaper | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on W... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Turner | Journal of a Tour in the Levant | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [various novels] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in th... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Wilson Croker | review of John Keats, Endymion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Cenci | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particu... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Gr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ruddiman | Latin Grammar | Print: Book |
| | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Douglas Kinnaird | letter (ie article?) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & ful... | George Gordon Lord Byron | J. G. Lockhart | John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply... | George Gordon Lord Byron | [N. N. A.] anon | [private letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in Eng... | George Gordon Lord Byron | A. A. Watts | series of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byron's works | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Wilson Croker | Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Tully | Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) rela... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Octavius Gilchrist | pamphlets | |
| 1700-1799 | Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Books of Old Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ev... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [reviews] | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| | Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | advertisement for "Mirandola" | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Southey | letter | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical dra... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Oxoniensis [pseud.] | Remonstrance against Cain | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January 1822 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the do... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | | Manuscript: epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Jeffrey | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Wr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subsc... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief funds | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): '... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thompson | book of prescriptions | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in S... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Harriet Lee | The German's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinar... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count D'Orsay | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more wel... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau | Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Life of Haydn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Life of Mozart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | essay on Racine and Shakespeare | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me wit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Amadee Pichot | Essai sur le Genie et le Caractere de Lord Byron par A[madee] P[icho]t | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Revie... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Ita... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I hav... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Eclectic Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Gally Knight | Alashtar, an Arabian Tale | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work en... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | review of Byron, The Age of Bronze | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an artic... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Hellenica Chronica | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earl... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anne Isabella Milbanke | 'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermody' and other verses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Blacket | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Erasmus Darwin | article 'on Diseased Volition' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From recollections of John Murray junior:
'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to his wife, 15 August 1814:
'I have got [for publication] at last Mr. Eagle's "Journal of Penrose, the... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Eagle | Journal of Penrose, the Seaman | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815:
'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | C. R. Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand trave... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giovanni Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia | Print: Book |