'DEAR MADAM, LETTER LXV. TO MRS. BYRON. "Athens, Feb. 28, 1811. stead dismantled by Messrs. Brothers, &c., and he seems determined to force me into selling it, but he will be baffled. I don't suppose I shall be much pestered with visiters; but if I am, you must receive them, for I am determined to have nobody breaking in upon my retirement: you know that 1 "As I have received a firman for Egypt, &c., I never was fond of society, and I am less so than be shall proceed to that quarter in the spring, and I fore. I have brought you a shawl, and a quantity beg you will state to Mr. Hanson that it is neces- of attar of roses, but these I must smuggle, if pos sary to further remittances. On the subject of sible. I trust to find my library in tolerable order. "Fletcher is no doubt arrived. I shall separate Newstead I answer, as before, no. If it is necessary to sell, sell Rochdale. Fletcher will have ar- the mill from Mr. B's farm, for his son is too rived by this time with my letters to that purport. gay a deceiver to inherit both, and place Fletcher I will tell you fairly, I have in the first place, no in it, who has served me faithfully, and whose wife opinion of funded property; if, by any particular is a good woman; besides, it is necessary to sober circumstances, I shall be led to adopt such a deter-young Mr. B**, or he will people the parish with mination, I will at all events, pass my life abroad, bastards. In a word, if he had seduced a dairymaid, as my only tie to England is Newstead, and, that he might have found something like an apology; once gone, neither interest nor inclination lead me but the girl is his equal, and in high life or low life northward. Competence in your country is ample reparation is made in such circumstances, But I wealth in the East, such is the difference in the shall not intefere further than (like Bonaparte) by value of money and the abundance of the necessa- dismembering Mr. B.'s kingdom, and erecting part ries of life; and I feel myself so much a citizen of of it into a principality for field-marshal Fletcher! the world, that the spot where I can enjoy a deli-I hope you govern my little empire and its sad load cious climate, and every luxury, at a less expense of national debt with a wary hand. To drop my than a common college life in England, will always metaphor, I beg leave to subscribe myself, yours, be a country to me; and such are in fact the shores &c. of the Archipelago. This then is the alternativeif I preserve Newstead, I return; if I sell it, I stay Portsmouth, but, on arriving there, the squadron away. I have had no letters since yours of June, but I have written several times, and shall continue, as usual, on the same plan. "Believe me, yours ever, "BYRON." "P. S. I shall most likely see you in the course of the summer, but, of course, at such a distance, I cannot specify any particular month." "P. S. This letter was written to be sent from was ordered to the Nore, from whence I shall for ward it. This I have not done before, supposing you might be alarmed by the interval mentioned in the letter being longer than expected between our arrival in port and my appearance at Newstead." "Volage frigate, at sea, June 29, 1811. "In a week, with a fair wind, we shall be at Portsmouth, and on the 2d of July, I shall have completed (to a day) two years of peregrination, from which I am returning with as little emotion as I set out. I think upon the whole, I was more grieved at leaving Greece than England, which I am impatient to see, simply because I am tired of a long voyage. "This letter, which will be forwarded on our arrival at Portsmouth, probably about the fourth of July, is begun about twenty-three days after our departure from Malta. I have just been two years to a day, on the second of July) absent from Eng- "Indeed, my prospects are not very pleasant. land, and I return to it with much the same feel- Embarrassed in my private affairs, indifferent to ings which prevailed on my departure, viz., indif-public, solitary without the wish to be social, with ference; but within that apathy I certainly do not a body a little enfeebled by a succession of fevers comprise yourself, as I will prove by every means in but a spirit, I trust, yet unbroken, I am returning my power. You will be good enough to get my home without a hope, and almost without a desire apartments ready at Newstead, but don't disturb The first thing I shall have to encounter will be a yourself on any account, particularly mine, nor con- lawyer, the next a creditor, then colliers, farmers, sider me in any other light than as a visitor. I surveyors, and all the agreeable attachments must only inform you that for a long time I have estates out of repair and contested coal-pits. L been restricted to an entire vegetable diet, neither short, I am sick and sorry, and when I have a litt fish nor flesh coming within my regimen; so I ex-repaired my irreparable affairs, away I shall march, pect a powerful stock of potatoes, greens, and bis- either to campaign in Spain, or back again to the cuit: I drink no wine. I have two servants, mid- East, where I can at least have cloudless skies and dle-aged men, and both Greeks. It is my inten- a cessation from impertinence. tion to proceed first to town, to see Mr. Hanson, "I trust to meet, or see you, in town or at New and thence to Newstead, on my way to Rochdale. stead, whenever you can make it convenient. I I have only to beg you will not forget my diet, suppose you are in love and in poetry, as usual which it is very necessary for me to observe. I That husband, H. Drury, has never written to me am well in health, as I have generally been, with albeit I have sent him more than one letter:-but I the exception of two agues, both of which I quickly dare say the poor man has a family, and of course got over. all his cares are confined to his circle. "For children fresh expenses get, "My plans will so much depend on circumstances, that I shall not venture to lay down an opinion on the subject. My prospects are not very promising, but I suppose we shall wrestle through If you see him, tell him I have a letter for him from life like our neighbors; indeed, by H.'s last ad- Tucker, a regimental chirurgeon and friend of his vices, I have some apprehensions of finding New-who prescribed for me, and is a very worthy man, but too fond of hard words. I should poor fellow among you: had it not been for his be too late for a speech-day, or I should probably patrons, he might now have been in very good go down to Harrow. plight, shoe (not verse) making; but you have made him immortal with a vengeance. I write this, I regretted very much in Greece having omitted to supposing poetry, patronage, and strong waters to carry the Anthology with me-I mean Bland and have been the death of him. If you are in town in Merivale's. or about the beginning of July, you will find me at Dorant's in Albemarle-street, glad to see you. I What has Sir Edgar done? And the Imitations have an Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry ready and Translations-where are they? I suppose you for Cawthorn, but don't let that deter you, for I don't mean to let the public off so easily, but shan't inflict it upon you. You know I never read charge them home with a quarto. For me, I am my rhymes to visitors. I shall quit town in a few sick of fops and poesy and prate,' and shall leave days for Notts, and thence to Rochdale. I shall the whole Castalian state' to Bufo, or any body send this the moment we arrive in harbor, that is a else. But you are a sentimental and sensibilitous week hence. person, and will rhyme to the end of the chapter. Howbeit, I have written some four thousand lines, of one kind or another, on my travels. "I need not repeat that I shall be happy to see you. I shall be in town about the 8th, at Dorant's Hotel, in Albemarle-street, and procced in a few davs to Notts, and thence to Rochdale on business. "I am, here and there, yours, &c." "Yours ever sincerely, BYRON " LETTER LXVIII. TO MR. DALLAS. "Volage frigate, at sea, June 28, 1811. LETTER LXIX. "After two years' absence (on the second) and some odd days, I am approaching your country. The day of our arrival you will see by the outside date of my letter. At present, we are becalmed comfortably, close to Brest Harbor; I have never been as near it since I left Duck Puddle. After two years absence, (to a day, on the 2d of We left Malta thirty-four days ago, and have had a July, before which we shall not arrive at Ports- tedious passage of it. You will either see or hear mouth,) I am retracing my way to England. from or of me, soon after the receipt of this, as I have, as you know, spent the greater part of that pass through town to repair my irreparable affairs; period in Turkey, except two months in Spain and and thence I want to go to Notts, and raise rents, Portugal, which were then accessible. I have seen and to Lancs, and sell collieries, and back to Lonevery thing most remarkable in Turkey, particu- don and pay debts; for it seems I shall neither larly the Troad, Greece, Constantinople, and Alba- have coals or comfort till I go down to Rochdale in nia, into which last region very few have penetrated person. so high as Hobhouse and myself. I don't know "I have brought home some marbles for Hobthat I have done any thing to distingush me from house; for myself, four ancient Athenian skulls, other voyagers, unless you will reckon my swim-dug out of Sarcophagi; a phial of attic hemlock;t ming from Sestos to Abydos, on May 3d, 1810, a four live tortoises; a greyhound, (died on the pastolerable feat for a modern. sage:) two live Greek servants, one an Athenian, "I am coming back with little prospect of pleas-t' other a Yaniote, who can speak nothing but Roure at home, and with a body a little shaken by maic and Italian; and myself, as Moses in the Vicar one or two smart fevers, but a spirit I hope yet un-of Wakefield says, slyly, and I may say it too, for broken. My affairs, it seems, are considerably in-I have as little cause to boast of my expedition as volved, and much business must be done with law- he had of his to the fair. yers, colliers, farmers, and creditors. Now this, to a man who hates bustle as he hates a bishop, is a seri-you I had swum from Sestos to Abydos; have you "I wrote to you from the Cyanean Rocks, to tell ous concern. But enough of my home department. received my letter? 串 *Hodgson, I suppose "I find I have been scolding Cawthorn without a is four deep by this time. What would he have cause, as I found two parcels with two letters from given to have seen, like me, the real Parnassus, you on my return to Malta. By these it appears where I robbed the Bishop of Crissæ of a book of you have not received a letter from Constantinople, geography; but this I only call plagiarism, as it addressed to Longman's, but it was of no conse- was done within an hour's ride of Delphi." quence. 66 My Satire, it seems, is in a fourth edition, a success rather above the middling run, but not much for a production which, from its topics, must be temporary, and of course be successful at first, or not at all. At this period, when I can think and act more coolly, I regret that I have written it, though I shall probably find it forgotten by all except those whom it has offended. "Mr. Hobhouse's Miscellany has not succeeded, but he himself writes so good humoredly on the subject, I don't know, whether to laugh or cry with LETTER LXX. TO THE HON. MRS. BYRON. him. He met with your son at Cadiz, of whom he "MY DEAR MADAM, speaks highly. "Reddish's Hotel, July 23, 1811. "St. James's street, London. "I am only detained by Mr. Hanson, to sign "Yours and Pratt's protege, Blackett, the cob- some coppyhold papers, and will give you timely bler, is dead in spite of his rhymes, and is proba- notice of my approach. It is with great reluctance bly one of the instances where death has saved a I remain in town. I shall pay a short visit as we ge man from damnation. You were the ruin of that • See note to Hints from Horace, p. 478. • Given afterward to Sir Walter Scott. ↑ In the possession of Mr. Murray. "MY DEAR DOCTOR, "Newport Pagnell, August 2, 1811. "Newstead Abbey, August 12, 1811. "DIRECTIONS FOR THE CONTENTS OF A WILL TO BE DRAWN UP IMMEDIATELY. "My poor mother died yesterday! and I am on my way from town to attend her to the family vault. "The estate of Newstead to be entailed (subject I heard one day of her illness, the next of her death. Thank God her last moments were most heir at law, or whoever may be the heir at law on to certain deductions) on George Anson Byron, tranquil. I am told she was in little pain, and not the death of Lord B. The Rochdale property to be aware of her situation.-I now feel the truth of Mr. sold in part or the whole, according to the debts Gray's observation, That we can only have one and legacies of the present Lord B. mother.'-Peace be with her! I have to thank you "To Nicolo Giraud of Athens, subject of France, for your expressions of regard, and as in six weeks but born in Greece, the sum of seven thousand I shall be in Lancashire on business, I may extend to Liverpool and Chester, at least I shall endeavor. pounds sterling, to be paid from the sale of such "If it will be any satisfaction, I have to inform enable the said Nicolo Giraud, (resident at Athens parts of Rochdale, Newstead, or elsewhere, as may you that in November next the editor of the Scourge and Malta in the year 1810,) to receive the above will be tried for two different libels on the late Mrs. sum on his attaining the age of twenty-one years. B. and myself, (the decease of Mrs. B. makes no "To William Fletcher, Joseph Murray, and difference in the proceedings,) and as he is guilty, Demetrius Zograffo,* (native of Greece,) servants, by his very foolish and unfounded assertion, of a the sum of fifty pounds per ann. each, for their breach of privilege, he will be prosecuted with the natural lives. To Wm Fletcher the mill at New utmost rigor. "I inform you of this, as you seem interested in the affair, which is now in the hands of the attorneygeneral. "I shall remain at Newstead the greater part of this month, where I shall be happy to hear from you, after my two years' absence in the East. "I am, dear Pigot, yours very truly, "BYRON." LETTER LXXII. TO MR. SCROPE DAVIES. "Newstead Abbey, August 7, 1811. stead, on condition that he payeth the rent, but not ton the sum of fifty pounds per ann. for life, and a subject to the caprice of the landlord. To R Rushfurther sum of one thousand pounds on attaining the age of twenty-five years. "To Jn Hanson, Esq., the sum of two thousand pounds sterling. "The claims of S. B. Davies, Esq., to be satisfied on proving the amount of the same. The body of Lord B. to be buried in the vault of the garden of Newstead, without any ceremony or burial-service whatever, or any inscription, sare his name and age. His dog not to be removed from the said vault. "My library and furniture of every description to my friends Jn Cam Hobhouse, Esq., and S. B Davies, Esq., my executors. In case of their decease, the Rev. J. Becher of Southwell, Notts, and R. C. Dallas, Esq., of Mortlake, Surrey, to be executors. "The produce of the sale of Wymondham in Norfolk, and the late Mrs. B.'s Scotch property, t to be appropriated in aid of the payment of debts MY DEAREST DAVIES, "Some curse hangs over me and mine. My mother lies a corpse in this house: one of my best friends is drowned in a ditch. What can I say, or think, or do? I received a letter from him the and legacies." day before yesterday. My dear Scrope, if you can spare a moment, do come down to me-I want a friend. Matthews's last letter was written on "This is the last will and testament of me the Friday,-on Saturday he was not. In ability, who Rt. Honble George Gordon Lord Byron, Bare was like Matthews? How did we all shrink Byron of Rochdale in the county of Lancasterbefore him? You do me but justice in saying, I desire that my body may be buried in the vault of would have risked my paltry existence to have pre- the garden of Newstead, without any ceremony served his. This very evening did I mean to write, burial-service whatever, and that no inscription inviting him, as I invite you, my very dear friend, save my name and age, be written on the tomb or to visit me. God forgive for his apathy! tablet; and it is my will that my faithful dog may What will our poor Hobhouse feel! His letters not be removed from the said vault. To the pr breathe but of Matthews. Come to me, Scrope, I formance of this, my particular desire, I rely on the am almost desolate-left almost alone in the world attention of my executors hereinafter named." -I had but you, and H., and M., and let me enjoy the survivors while I can. Poor M., in his letter "If the papers lie not, (which they generally do,) Demetrias Zagn of Friday, speaks of his intended contest for Cam- of Athens is at the head of the Athenian part of the Greek insurrection. bridge, and a speedy journey to London. Write or come, but come if you can, or one or both. "Yours ever." • Bee Letter ccccixii. was my bervant in 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, at different intervals in those ye (for I left him in Greece when I went to Constantinople,) and accompanis me to England in 1811; he returned to Greece, spring, 1812. He wa clever, but not apparenty an enterprising man; but circumstanos mi men. His two sons (then infants) were named Miltiades and Aletada may the omen be hapy !"-MS. Journal. "SIR, LETTER LXXV. TO MR. BOLTON. "Newstead Abbey, August 20 1811. "It is submitted to Lord Byron whether this lause relative to the funeral had not better be omitted. The substance of it can be given in a letter from his lordship to the executors, and accompany the will; and the will may state that the funeral shall be performed in such manner as his lordship may by letter direct, and, in default of any such "The witnesses shall be provided from among letter, then at the discretion of his executors." my tenants, and I shall be happy to see you on any "It must stand. "B." day most convenient to yourself. I forgot to men"I do hereby specifically order and direct that tion that it must be specified by codicil, or otherall the claims of the said S. B. Davies upon me wise, that my body is on no account to be removed shall be fully paid and satisfied as soon as conve- from the vault where I have directed it to be placed; niently may be after my decease, on his proving and, in case any of my successors within the entail, [by vouchers, or otherwise, to the satisfaction of (from bigotry, or otherwise,) might think proper my executors hereinafter named] the amount attended by forfeiture of the estate, which, in such to remove the carcass, such proceeding shall be case, shall go to my sister, the Honde Augusta "If Mr. Davies has any unsettled claims upon Leigh and her heirs on similar conditions. I have Lord Byron, that circumstance is a reason for his the honor to be, sir, not being appointed executor; each executor having an opportunity of paying himself his own debt without consulting his co-executors.' thereof and the correctness of the same." "Your very obedient, humble servant, "BYRON." In sending a copy of the will, framed on these instructions, to Lord Byron, the solicitor accompanied some of the clauses with marginal queries, calling the attention of his client to points which he considered inexpedient or questionable: one or two of the clauses are here inserted in full, with the respective queries and answers annexed. LETTER LXXVI. TO MR. DALLAS. "Newstead Abbey, Notts, August 12, 1811. "Peace be with the dead! Regret cannot wake them. With a sigh to the departed, let us resume the dull business of life, in the certainty that we shall also have our repose. Besides her who gave me being, I have lost more than one who made that being tolerable. The best friend of my friend Hobhouse, Matthews, a man of the first talents, and also not the worst of my narrow circle, has perished mis The two following letters contain further instruc-erably in the muddy waves of the Cam, always fatal tions on the same subject: "SIR, to genius;-my poor schoolfellow Wingfield, at Coimbra-within a month, and while I heard from all three, but not seen one. Matthews wrote to me the very day before his death; and though I feel for his fate, I am still more anxious for Hobhouse, who, I very much fear, will hardly retain his senses; his letters to me since the event have been most inco It is "I have answered the queries on the margin.therent. But let this pass-we shall all one day pass I wish Mr. Davies's claims to be most fully allowed, along with the rest-the world is too full of such and, further that he be one of my executors. I things, and our very sorrow is selfish. wish the will to be made in a manner to prevent all "I received a letter from you which my late ocdiscussion, if possible, after my decease; and this I cupations prevented me from duly noticing,-I hope leave to you as a professional gentleman. your friends and family will long hold together. I "With regard to the few and simple directions shall be glad to hear from you, on business, on comfor the disposal of my carcass, I must have them monplace, or any thing, or nothing-but death-I implicitly fulfilled, as they will, at least, prevent am already too familiar with the dead. trouble and expense :-and (what would be of little strange that I look on the skulls which stand consequence to me, but may quiet the conscience beside me (I have always had four in my study) of the survivors) the garden is consecrated ground. those I have known of their fleshy covering, even without emotion, but I cannot strip the features of These directions are copied verbatim from my former will; the alterations in other parts have in idea, without a hideous sensation; but the worms are less ceremonious. Surely, the Romans well when they burned the dead. I shall be happy to hear from you, and am arisen from the death of Mrs. B. "I have the honor to be, "Your most obedient, humble servant, "BYRON." "Yours, &c." LETTER LXXVII. TO MR. HODGSON. • Over the words here placed between brackets, Lord Byron drew his pen. ↑ In the clause enumerating the names and places of abode of the executors, the solicitor had left blanks for the Christian names of these gentlemen, and Lord Byron, having filled up all but that of Dallas, writes in the margin-"1 forget the Christian name of Dallas-cut him out." He also executed on the twenty-eighth of this month, a codicil, by which he revoked the bequest of his "househ Id goods aud furniture, library, pictures, sabres, watches, plate, linen, trinkets, and other personal estate, (except money and securities,) "Newstead Abbey, August 22, 1811. Bitnate within the walls of the mansion-house and premises at his deceaseand bequeathed the same (except his wine and spirituous liquors) to his "You may have heard of the sudden death of friends, the said J. C. Hobhouse, S. B. Davies, and Francis Hodgson, their my mother, and poor Matthews, which, with that executors, &c., to be equal 7 divided between them for their own use; and of Wingfield, (of which I was not fully aware til he bequeathed his wine and spirituous liquors, which should be in the cellars just before I left town, and indeed hardly believed and premises at Newstead, unto his friend the said J. Becher, for his own use, and requested the said J. C. Hobhouse, 8 B. Davies, F. Hodgson, and it,) has made a sad chasm in my connexions. In J. Becher, respectively, to accept the bequest there contained, to them respectively, as a token of his friendship." • See Childe Harold, note 19, to canto i. deed the blows followed each other so rapidly that I the best. But of this anon, when we have def am yet stupid from the shock, and though I do eat, nitely arranged. and drink, and talk, and even laugh, at times, yet I "Has Murray shown the work to any one? He can hardly persuade myself that I am awake, did may-but I will have no traps for applause. Ot not every morning convince me mournfully to the course there are little things I would wish to altar, contrary. I shall now waive the subject, the dead and perhaps the two stanzas of a buffooning cast on are at rest, and none but the dead can be so. London's Sunday are as well left out. I much wish "You will feel for poor Hobhouse,-Matthews to avoid identifying Childe Harold's character with was the god of his idolatry;' and if intellect could mine, and that, in sooth, is my second objection to exalt a man above his fellows, no one could refuse my name appearing in the title-page. When you him preeminence. I knew him most intimately, have made arrangements as to time, size, type, &c., and valued him proportionably, but I am recurring favor me with a reply. I am giving you a universe so let us talk of life and the living. of trouble, which thanks cannot atone for. I made a "If you should feel a disposition to come here, kind of prose apology for my skepticism at the head you will find beef and a sea-coal fire,' and not un-of the MS., which, on recollection, is so much more generous wine. Whether Otway's two other re-like an attack than a defence, that, haply, it might quisites for an Englishman or not, I cannot tell, but better be omitted:-perpend, pronounce. After all, probably one of them. Let me know when I may I fear Murray will be in a scrape with the orthodox; expect you, that I may tell you when I go and but I cannot help it, though I wish him well when return. I have not yet been to Lancs. Davies has been here, and has invited me to Cambridge for a week in October, so that peradventure, we may encounter glass to glass. His gayety (death cannot mar it) has done me service; but, after all, ours was a hollow laughter. through it. As for me, I have supped full of criticism,' and I don't think that the most dismal treatise' will stir and rouse my fell of hair' till Birnam wood do come to Dunsinane.' "I shall continue to write at intervals, and hope you will pay me in kind. How does Pratt get on "You will write to me. I am solitary, and I never or rather get off Joe Blackett's posthumous stock! felt solitude irksome before. Your anxiety about You killed that poor man among you, in spite of the critique on's book is amusing; as it was your Ionian friend and myself, who would have saved anonymous, certes, it was of little consequence: I him from Pratt, poetry, present poverty, and post. wish it had produced a little more confusion, being humous oblivion. Cruel patronage! to ruin a man a lover of literary malice. Are you doing nothing? at his calling; but then he is a divine subject for writing nothing printing nothing? why not your subscription and biography; and Pratt, who makes Satire on Methodism? the subject (supposing the the most of his dedications, has inscribed the public to be blind to merit) would do wonders. Be-volume to no less than five families of distinction. sides, it would be as well for a destined deacon to "I am sorry you don't like Harry White; with a prove his orthodoxy. It really would give me plea- great deal of cant, which in him was sincere, (insure to see you properly appreciated. I say really, deed, it killed him as you killed Joe Blackett,) as, being an author, my humanity might be sus-certes, there is poesy and genius. I don't say this pected. "Believe me, dear H. yours always." LETTER LXXVIII. TO MR. DALLAS. "Newstead, August 21, 1811. on account of my simile and rhymes; but surely he was beyond all the Bloomfields and Blacketts, and their collateral cobblers, whom Lofft and Pratt have or may kidnap from their calling into the service of the trade. You must excuse my flippancy, for I am writing I know not what, to escape from myself. Hobhouse is gone to Ireland. Mr. Davies has been here on his way to Harrowgate. "Believe me, &c.' LETTER LXXIX. TO MR. MURRAY. "Newstead Abbey, Notts, August 23, 1811. "You did not know Mr. Matthews; he was a man of the most astonishing powers, as he suffi ciently proved at Cambridge, by carrying off more prizes and fellowships, against the ablest candidates, than any other graduate on record; but a most de"Your letter gives me credit for more acute feel- cided atheist, indeed noxiously so, for he proings than I possess; for though I feel tolerably mis- claimed his principles in all societies. I knew him erable, yet I am at the same time subject to a kind well, and feel a loss not easily to be supplied to my of hysterical merriment, or rather laughter without self-to Hobhouse never. Let me hear from you, merriment, which I can neither account for nor and conquer; and yet I do not feel relieved by it; but an indifferent person would think me in excellent spirits. We must forget these things,' and have recourse to our old selfish comforts, or rather comfortable selfishness. I do not think I shall return to London immediately, and shall therefore accept freely what is offered courteously-your mediation between me and Murray. I don't think my name will answer the purpose, and you must be aware that my plaguy Satire will bring the north and "A domestic calamity in the death of a near rela south Grub-streets down upon the Pilgrimage;' tion has hitherto prevented my addressing you on but, nevertheless, if Murray makes a point of it, the subject of this letter. My friend Mr. Dallas and you coincide with him, I will do it daringly; so has placed in your hands a manuscript poem writ let it be entitled, "By the Author of English Bards ten by me in Greece, which he tells me you do and Scotch Reviewers.' My remarks on the Ro- not object to publishing. But he also informed me maic, &c., once intended to accompany the Hints in London that you wished to send the MS. to Mr. from Horace,' shall go along with the other, as Gifford. Now, though no one would feel more grati being indeed more appropriate; also the smaller fied by the chance of obtaining his observations on poems now in my possession, with a few selected a work than myself, there is in such a proceeding a from those published in Hobhouse's Miscellany. I kind of petition for praise, that neither my pride have found among my poor mother's papers all my or whatever you please to call it will admit. Mr. letters from the East, and one in particular of some G. is not only the first satirist of the day, but editor length from Albania. From this, if necessary, I of one of the principal Reviews. can work up a note or two on that subject. As I kept no journal, the letters written on the spot are "SIR, As such, he is • See "English Bards.” |