BYRON'S LETTERS TO DOUGLAS KINNAIRD ... - Get a Free Blog

supposed possibilities.
Calculate to have {an unspent} surplus of the
present year in J y 1823 – at about 3000
3000 of Noel Accession
Say about 2700 of my own
2625 – – Produce of M.S.S. more or less
11325
Will there not also be a half
year of this year 1822,
from Kirby Mallory? – I
presume that the deceased
does not take a whole year
and she died in J y {1822} was it not so?
if so – Say suppose
1500 ) 11325
add ) 1500
11325 ) 12825.
[The reverse shows various attempts at arithemetic.]
Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, from Pisa, September 26th 1822:
(Source: text from NLS Ms.43453; not in 1922 II; BLJ IX 217-19)
[To, The Honorable / Douglas Kinnaird. / Messrs Ransom & C o . Bankers. / Pall Mall. / London. /
Angleterre. // Inghilterra.]
Pisa. Septr. 26 th . 1822.
My dear Douglas /
I have received y rs . of y e . 7 th . with the banking account of assetts and disbursements.
– – But I am still ignorant of the sum total of my remaining bond debts – by the three years In t . paid up
in the beginning of y e . current year – 360 – the principal should be two thousand four hundred pounds –
but I suspect that there are more – and especially a bond to Claughton – which Charles Hanson bought
from him at a considerable profit. – – There may be yet others for aught I know. – –
Now to meet these – let me see. – – – –
Besides your late Credit of 2000 in advance (which I do not mean to touch unless in some emergency) I
have still £1700 in your former circulars – and 1200 in ditto lately received in all 2900£ – also in
the hands of Messrs. Webb of Leghorn 630£ Sterling – (3580 in all between you) and about three
or four hundred pounds
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cash in the house – total about £4000 – more or less. – Now supposing me to spend a thousand pounds
between this and J y 1823 – in removing to Genoa – which is expensive as comprising furniture and a
complete establishment – there would still be a surplus of 3000 remaining to begin the year withal. –
This would have been still greater but I was foolish enough to build a slight Schooner – which was to
have cost £300 – but which eventually cost nearly £800 – her expences since amount monthly to about
60 dollars – i.e. 720 dollars per annum – say about 180£ sterling per annum including men’s wages and
sundries. – – –
I have however sold three horses and keep of course that number less in my stable – having still six –
three carriage and three saddle. –
Then I lent Leigh Hunt 250 – last winter – bought him 50 pounds worth of furniture – have advanced
him about 50 more – and lent
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Shelley fifty besides buying his furniture since his decease – in all about – say – about five hundred
pounds more or less. – This – with one or two unexpected expences of about one hundred more – make
in all about fourteen or fifteen hundred pounds – which would have been added to the 3000 of present
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