Excerpt from The Confessions of Lord Byron, 1905: A Collection of His Private Opinions of Men and of Matters, Taken From the New and Enlarged; Edition of His Letters and Journals

To arrive at the real Byron in the most expeditious fashion, you must go by way of his Letters and Journals. You may get to your destination by another route, by the line that has Galt, Medwin, Scott, Moore, and Lady Blessington for stopping-places; but this latter track makes so many deviations and takes so long a time, that the wonder is it ever reaches home. Or, to vary the metaphor, by dint of reading Galt, Medwin, etc., you may obtain a composite picture which yields a recognisable portrait of Byron; but, if you would get a speaking likeness of his lordship, you must go to his correspondence, to those letters in which he reproduces his own lineaments on every page.

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