OF LORD BYRON WITH A FRIEND, INCLUDING HIS LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER, WRITTEN FROM PORTUGAL, ALSO Recollections of the Poet. BY THE LATE R. C. DALLAS, ESQ. THE WHOLE FORMING An Original Memoir of Lord Byron's Life, FROM 1808 TO 1814. AND A CONTINUATION AND PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF THE PROCEEDINGS BY WHICH THE LETTERS WERE SUPPRESSED IN ENGLAND, AT THE SUIT OF LORD BYRON'S EXECUTORS. BY THE REV. A. R. C. DALLAS. VOL. I. Paris: PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI, AT THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH LIBRARY, 1825. CONTENTS. Pages PRELIMINARY STATEMENT of Mr A. Dallas.i-cxviii Introductory remark by the present Editor.-Matter of it forms a curious law-case.-Cause of the first publication in the shape of RECOLLECTIONS.-Announcement of the letters excited great curiosity.—And stimulated Lord Byron's Exe- cutors to apply for an Injunction, which was granted and confirmed, but no report of the case made public.—The case thus left open to false comments.—Unfavourable sus- picions raised.-Mr Dallas thus necessitated to defend him- self by publishing the truth.-This brought forth the RE- COLLECTIONS. In these was contained a simple narrative of the facts. But the author died before it could be pub- lished. And the task devolved on his son, Mr A. Dallas.— * drawing Lord Byron's character, by a suggestion of the - Knight and Mr Colbourn.-Affidavit of Mr A. Dallas.- |