A letter describing Lord Byron’s memoirs, which were burned at the office of his publisher following his death, has been discovered at the University of Cambridge college where he was a student. The poet, who was 36 when he died in 1824 – 200 years ago – had left the manuscript with instructions to publish only after his death, but it was destroyed amid fears of damage to his reputation. The letter, from Elizabeth Palgrave, was discovered in Trinity College’s Wren Library by archivist Adam Green, who was cataloguing the Dawson Turner archive. Ms Palgrave writes, in the 1823 letter to her fathe…