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• W2040497777 abstract "It seems curious that Byron's introduction to the Prince Regent in 1812 has nowhere been properly examined or discussed. There are various versions of the event, and surmises have been made; but the date and location, and the identity of the hostess at whose party it took place, have never been established. These three issues will be addressed here. Writing to Scott on Saturday 27 June 1812, Murray told him that Byron had been to 'an evening party at Miss Johnson's [sic] - this week', at which the Prince Regent was present and to whom he had been introduced. They had conversed 'for more than ½ an hour' on poetry and poets, in the course of which the Prince had expressed his particular admiration for Scott, whom 'he preferred [...] far beyond every other poet of the time': 'Lord B called on me, merely to lett of [sic] the raptures of the Prince respecting you, thinking as he said, if I were likely to have occasion to write to you that it might not be ungrateful for you to hear.'1 The news was certainly not 'ungrateful' for Scott to hear; it elicited a very grateful reply enclosing an equally grateful letter to Byron which prompted their subsequent correspondence and friendship.2 Byron returned with Hobhouse from Newstead to London on Saturday 13 June 1812, after a 'whole week passed in a delirium of sensuality'.3 Between that date and the date of Murray's writing to Scott, Miss Johnstone (to whom we shall return presently) gave three parties that he could have attended. Miss Berry was at one on Sunday 14 June 1812, where she conversed with Mrs Siddons, and 'where there was good company and music'.4 Annabella was at another on Wednesday 24 June, along with Lord Jocelyn and George Eden.5 But at neither of these is the Prince or Byron recorded as being present. The third occasion, of which no record whatsoever appears to have been kept by anyone who might have been there, was reported, without elaboration and solely it seems, in the Star for Monday 22 June 1812: 'Miss JOHNSTON [sic] gave a grand ball on Saturday [20 June], at her house, Hanover-square.'6 Byron himself, however, nowhere at the time names Miss Johnstone.7 When writing to Lord Holland on Thursday 25 June 1812 he says he had been presented to the Prince merely 'the other night at a Ball'.8 As he also says in this same letter that 'till last night' he 'was not apprized of Lady Holland's situation', it seems unlikely that the 'other night' and 'last night' (Wednesday 24 June - the night of the Johnstone ball to which Annabella went) would be synonymous.9 Byron's letter to Scott of 6 July 1812 throws no further light on the question.10 He remarks that the Prince 'spoke alternately of Homer & yourself & seemed well acquainted with both, so that (with the exception of the Turks & your humble servant) you were in very good company'.11 To 'Turks' in this passage, Leslie Marchand, following Rowland Prothero, appends the tantalising note: 'The Turkish Ambassador and his suite were at the ball' - which might have helped fix the matter.12 But this is pure nonsense. No such Ambassador or 'suite' is mentioned as being present at any Johnstone party nor at the numerous other balls and routs of the season.13 What Byron means is that the conversation turned on Homer, Scott, Byron himself and 'the Turks' amongst whom he had so recently travelled. In the absence of any further evidence, then, the indications suggest that the introduction must have taken place at the ball Miss Johnstone gave on Saturday 20 June 1812. As unsatisfactory as this may seem to be, rather more may be said about the hostess herself. Sophia Johnstone (1785?-1841) was the sister of George Lindsay Johnstone (1764-1813) - MP for Heydon in Yorkshire, a commissioner of the India Board and formerly Resident at Lucknow - who died of an apoplectic fit on 20 November 1813.14 They were the natural children of Commodore George Johnstone (1730-87), Governor of West Florida, MP and a director of the East India Company. …" @default.
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• W2040497777 title "Byron's Introduction to the Prince Regent in 1812" @default.
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