BYRON, GEORGE GORDON Lord. Autograph letter signed ("Byron") to [Richard Belgrave] Hoppner, British Consul in Venice, [Villa Foscarini], La Mira, October 27 1817. 2 pages, 8vo, integral blank (with recipient's docket), neatly inlaid. BYRON RENTS THE VILLA WHICH HE LATER LOANED TO PERCY AND MARY SHELLEY "On calling at your door yesterday I was informed that you had returned from your journey which I hope proved less disagreeable than you expected. In a note which I took the liberty of addressing to Mrs. Hoppner I mentioned that with your permission I considered myself as your tenant & I shall avail myself of the earliest opportunity of fulfilling the necessary arrangements on my return to Venice -- which will be early in November. I hope that this will be satisfactory - otherwise I can easily come up any morning you please during the present month. With my respectful compliments ot Mrs. Hoppner...." Hoppner (1786-1872), British Consul at Venice, was the son of the painter John Hoppner and had strong artistic and literary leanings. Byron was living at the Villa La Mira on the Brenta (where he completed the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold and wrote Beppo ). He became acquainted with Hoppner and his Swiss-born wife in the summer or early fall of 1814 - not long before the present letter - and the friendship endured despite the Hoppner's disapproval of his later involvement with the Countess Guiccioli. Byron gave Hoppner books by Coleridge, Moore and Scott. Hoppner recipricated by helping the poet with financial and other affairs and oftenaccompanied Byron on his daily horseback rides on the Lido beach. Hoppner had leased a country villa, "I Cappucini" in the Euganean Hilles, near Este. In September, Byron had made arrangements to visit the villa, with a view to subletting it (see Letters & Journals , ed. Leslie A. Marchand, 5:264). Arrangements had been concluded by November. Byron never lived there, but when Percy and Mary Shelley arrived in Venice, he loaned the Villa to his friends. Apparently unpublished, not in Letters & Journals.
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON Lord. Autograph letter signed ("Byron") to [Richard Belgrave] Hoppner, British Consul in Venice, [Villa Foscarini], La Mira, October 27 1817. 2 pages, 8vo, integral blank (with recipient's docket), neatly inlaid. BYRON RENTS THE VILLA WHICH HE LATER LOANED TO PERCY AND MARY SHELLEY "On calling at your door yesterday I was informed that you had returned from your journey which I hope proved less disagreeable than you expected. In a note which I took the liberty of addressing to Mrs. Hoppner I mentioned that with your permission I considered myself as your tenant & I shall avail myself of the earliest opportunity of fulfilling the necessary arrangements on my return to Venice -- which will be early in November. I hope that this will be satisfactory - otherwise I can easily come up any morning you please during the present month. With my respectful compliments ot Mrs. Hoppner...." Hoppner (1786-1872), British Consul at Venice, was the son of the painter John Hoppner and had strong artistic and literary leanings. Byron was living at the Villa La Mira on the Brenta (where he completed the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold and wrote Beppo ). He became acquainted with Hoppner and his Swiss-born wife in the summer or early fall of 1814 - not long before the present letter - and the friendship endured despite the Hoppner's disapproval of his later involvement with the Countess Guiccioli. Byron gave Hoppner books by Coleridge, Moore and Scott. Hoppner recipricated by helping the poet with financial and other affairs and oftenaccompanied Byron on his daily horseback rides on the Lido beach. Hoppner had leased a country villa, "I Cappucini" in the Euganean Hilles, near Este. In September, Byron had made arrangements to visit the villa, with a view to subletting it (see Letters & Journals , ed. Leslie A. Marchand, 5:264). Arrangements had been concluded by November. Byron never lived there, but when Percy and Mary Shelley arrived in Venice, he loaned the Villa to his friends. Apparently unpublished, not in Letters & Journals.
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