Chapter 24

MOORE'S "LIFE OF BYRON"

Murray purchases the remainder of Byron's Poems--Leigh Hunt's "Recollections"--Moore selected as the biographer of Byron--Collection of Letters and Papers--Lockhart and Scott's opinion of the work--Publication of the first volume of Byron's "Life"--Mrs. Shelley's letter--Publication of the second volume--Letters from Mrs. Somerville and Croker--Capt. Medwin's Conversations--Pecuniary results of Lord Byron's "Life"--Reviews of Moore's works in the _Quarterly_--Moore on Editors--Complete edition of "Byron's Works"--Letters from Countess Guiccioli and Sir R. Peel--Thorwaldsen's statue of Lord Byron--Refused at Westminster Abbey, but erected in Trinity College Library, Cambridge

MEMOIRS OF JOHN MURRAY