when [Lord] Byron offered to pass along to the meddlesome [R.C.] Dallas the value of one of his copyrights, and [John] Murray balked at paying a third party a sum he had intended for Byron himself. As he grew older, however, Byron took more and more pride in his 'Brain-money', as he called it, the money he had earned professionally: 'I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some Sequins in a drawer to count, & cry over them once a week.' from London Review of Books: You Have Never Written Better
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