SD2798. Diary Entry of Henry William Greville
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 343 (in part).
[London]
Thursday, November 23, 1865
Dined yesterday with Miss Gabriel, Lady Molesworth, Mrs. Procter, Dr. Bence Jones, Leighton, and Browning. The latter, à propos of Miss Berry’s Diary, and of diaries in general, told us he had seen a letter of the poet Waller, in which he says that a poem had just appeared by a young schoolmaster of the name of Milton, called “Paradise Lost,” which, if it showed any merit, certainly sinned by reason of its length. He told us also that there are poems of Lord Byron’s in existence which have never been published, but which he thinks Murray will probably bring out before long. He said he knew the real history of Byron’s married life, which some day would also come to light. Dr. Bence Jones said he had been with Lady Byron at her death; she had never spoken of Lord Byron to him, but much of the undoubted insanity of some of her grandchildren. She has left her papers, to be published at some future time, to a Miss Montgomery, Miss Carr (sister-in-law to Dr. Lushington), and to a third person whose name I forget.
Text: Leaves from the Diary of Henry Greville, 4th series, ed. Countess of Strafford (London, 1905), pp. 266–267.
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