Letter from Lord Byron (George Gordon) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824

dc.creator	Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-05T19:22:11Z
dc.date.available	2014-11-05T19:22:11Z
dc.date.issued	1815-03-31
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/6108
dc.description	Autograph letter written from Lord Byron (George Gordon) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Written from Picadilly. Transcriptions included.
dc.format	PDF
dc.format.medium	4 pages, double sheet, 22.4 x 18.2 cm
dc.relation	William Luther Lewis Collection
dc.rights	Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any photograph.
dc.source	FF-B2; Housed in a blue buckram box labeled "Autograph Letters"; 102
dc.subject	Authors
dc.subject	Letters
dc.subject	Autographs
dc.title	Letter from Lord Byron (George Gordon) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
dc.type	Image
dc.identifier.digitool	97588	en_US
dc.date.captured	2012-03-28
dc.description.transcription	Piccadilly March 31st. 1815— Dear Sir— It will give me great pleasure to comply with your request—though I hope there is still taste enough left amongst us to render it almost unnecessary—sordid & interested as—it must be admitted—many of “the trade” are where circumstances give them an advantage. I trust you do not permit yourself to be depressed by the temporary partiality of what is called “the public” for the favourites of the moment—all experience is against the permanency of such impressions. [p. 2] You must have lived to see many of these pass away—and will survive many more—I mean personally—for poetically, I would not insult you by a comparison. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- If I may be permitted—I would suggest that there never was such an opening for Tragedy—In Kean there is an actor worthy of expressing the thoughts of the characters which you have every power of embodying—and I cannot but regret that the part of Ordonio was disposed of before his appearance at Drury Lane. We have had nothing to be mentioned in the same breath with “Remorse” for [p. 3] very many years—and I should think that the reception of that play was sufficient to encourage the highest hopes of author and audience. -- -- It is to be hoped that you are proceeding in a career which could not be successful. -- -- -- With my best respects to Mr. Bowles I have the honour to be Yr. obliged & very obnt. Svt Byron P.S. You mention my “Satire” lampoon or whatever you or others please to call it—I can only say that it was written when I was very young & very angry—and has been a thorn in my side ever [p.4 ] since—more particularly as almost all the persons animadverted upon became subsequently my acquaintances & some of them my friends—which is “heaping fire upon an enemy’s head” & forgiving me too readily to permit me to forgive myself.—The part applied to you—is pert & petulant--& shallow enough—but—although I have long done every thing in my power to suppress the circulation of the whole thing—I shall always regret the wantonness & generality of many of its attempted attacks. [Four dashes fill out the final line.]