Venice, _January_ 8, 1818. [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 156, 157; stanzas 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, first published, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 191-193.] FOOTNOTES: [84] [The Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_.] [85] [Murray bought a half-share in _Blackwood's Edinburgh Monthly Magazine_ in August, 1818, and remained its joint proprietor till December, 1819, when it became the property of William Blackwood. But perhaps the reference is to Byron's Swiss Journal of September, 1816.] [86] [Henry Gaily Knight (1786-1846), who was a contemporary of Byron at Trinity College, Cambridge, was a poetaster, and, afterwards, a writer of works on architecture. His Oriental verses supplied Byron with a subject for more than one indifferent _jeu d'esprit_.] [87] [_Phrosyne_, a Grecian tale, and _Alashtar_, an Arabian tale, were published in 1817. In a letter to Murray, September 4, 1817, Byron writes, "I have received safely, though tardily, the magnesia and tooth-powder, _Phrosine_ and _Alashtar_. I shall clean my teeth with one, and wipe my shoes with the other."--_Letters_, 1901, iv.] [88] [Sotheby's _Farewell to Italy_ and _Occasional Poems_ were published in 1818, as the record of a tour which he had taken in 1816-17 with his family, Professor Elmsley, and Dr. Playfair. For Byron's unfinished skit on Sotheby's Tour, see _Letters_, 1900, iv. Appendix V. pp. 452, 453.] [89] [_Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men_, by the Rev. Joseph Spence, arranged, with notes, by the late Edmund Malone, Esq., 1 vol. 8vo, 1820.] [90] [_The Life of Mary Queen of Scots_, by George Chalmers, 2 vols. 4to, 1819.] [91] [Thomas Gordon (1788-1841) entered the Scots Greys in 1808. Two years later he visited Ali Pasha (see _Letters_, 1898, i. 246, _note_ 1) in Albania, and travelled in Persia and Turkey in the East. From 1813 to 1815 he served in the Russian Army. He wrote a _History of the Greek Revolution_, 1832, 2 vols., but it does not appear that he was negotiating with Murray for the publication of any work at this period.] [92] _Vide_ your letter. [93] [Probably Sir Robert John Wilmot (1784-1841) (afterwards Wilmot Horton), Byron's first cousin, who took a prominent part in the destruction of the "Memoirs," May 17, 1824. (For Lady Wilmot Horton, the original of "She walks in beauty," see _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 381, _note_ I.)] [94] [Stanzas 12, 13, 14 cannot be published.] ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER.[95] HIS father's sense, his mother's grace, In him, I hope, will always fit so; With--still to keep him in good case-- The health and appetite of Rizzo. _February_ 20, 1818. [First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 134.] FOOTNOTES: