Stowe made a more extended effort to justify the
charges which she had brought against Lord Byron, in a work published
in 1869, "Lady Byron Vindicated." Immediately after the publication of
this work, she mailed a copy to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, accompanied
by the following note:--
BOSTON, _May_ 19, 1869.
DEAR DOCTOR,--. . . In writing this book, which I now take the liberty
of sending to you, I have been in . . . a "critical place." It has
been a strange, weird sort of experience, and I have had not a word to
say to anybody, though often thinking of you and wishing I could have
a little of your help and sympathy in getting out what I saw. I think
of you very much, and rejoice to see the _hold_ your works get on
England as well as this country, and I would give more for your
opinion than that of most folks. How often I have pondered your last
letter to me, and sent it to many (friends)! God bless you. Please
accept for yourself and your good wife, this copy.
From yours truly,
H. B. STOWE.
Mrs. Stowe also published in 1870, through Sampson Low & Son, of
London, a volume for English readers, "The History of the Byron
Controversy." These additional volumes, however, do not seem to have
satisfied the public as a whole, and perhaps the expediency of the
publication of Mrs. Stowe's first article is doubtful, even to her
most ardent admirers. The most that can be hoped for, through the
mention of the subject in this biography, is the vindication of Mrs.
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