Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lord Byron's Correspondence, Vol. 2 of 2: Chiefly With Lady Melbourne, Mr. Hobhouse, the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, and P. B. Shelley
The two letters at the close of Volume I form the abrupt conclusion of Lord Byron's correspondence with Lady Melbourne.
From that time forward no letters appear to have passed between them, and her name hardly appears again in his correspondence. In a letter to my grandfather, dated 23 April, Byron wrote:
The time is past in which I could feel for the dead - or I should feel for the death of Lady Melbourne, the best and kindest and ablest female I ever knew - old or young. But I have "supped full of horrors," and events of this kind leave only a kind of numbness worse than pain - like a violent blow on the elbow or on the head. There is one link the less between England and myself.
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