work My aristocracy, which is very fierce, makes | tess G. G. has had the goodness to give the neceshim a favorite of mine. Recollect that those 'little sary orders to Mr. Dunn, who superintends the factions' comprised Lord Chatham and Fox, the embarkation, and will write to you. I wish it to father, and that we live in gigantic and exaggerated buried in Harrow church. times, which make all under Gog and Magog appear "There is a spot in the churchyard, near the foot. pigmean. After having seen Napolean begin like path, on the brow of the hill looking towards WindTamerlane and end like Bajazet in our own time, sor, and a tomb under a large tree, (bearing the we have not the same interest in what would other- name of Peachie, or Peachey,) where I used to sit wise have appeared important history. But I must for hours and hours when a boy. This was my couclude. "Believe me ever and most truly yours, "NOEL BYRON." LETTER DLX. TO MR. MURRAY. "Pisa, May 17, 1822. favorite spot; but as I wish to erect a tablet to her memory, the body had better be deposited in the church. Near the door, on the left hand as you enter, there is a monument with a tablet containing these words: When Sotrow weeps o'er Virtue's sacred dust, I recollect them, (after seventeen years,) not from I hear that the Edinburgh has attacked the any thing remarkable in them, but because from my three dramas, which is a bad business for you; an! seat in the gallery I had generally my eyes turned I don't wonder that it discourages you. However, towards that monument. As near it as convenient that volume may be trusted to time-depend upon I could wish Allegra to be buried, and on the wall it. I read it over with some attention since it was a marble tablet placed, with these word:published, and I think the time will come when it will be preferred to my other writings, though not immediately. I say this without irritation against the critics or criticism, whatever they may be, (for I have not seen them :) and nothing that has or may appear in Jeffrey's Review can make me forget that he stood by me for ten good' years without any motive to do so but his own good-will. "I hear Moore is in town; remember me to him, and believe me "Yours truly, "N. B. "P. S. If you think it necessary, you may send me the Edinburgh. Should there be any thing that requires an answer, I will reply, but temperately and echnically; that is to say, merely with respect to the principles of the criticism, and not personally or offensively as to its literary merits." ous blow to me. LETTER DLXI. TO MR. MOORE. "Pisa, May 17, 1822. "In Memory of Daughter of G. G. Lord Byron, 'I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me.' "The funeral I wish to be as private as is consistent with decency; and I could hope that Henry Drury will, perhaps, read the service over her. It he should decline it, it can be done by the usual minister for the time being. I do not know that I need add more just now. "Since I came here, I have been invited by the Americans on board their squadron, where I was received with all the kindness which I could wish, and with more ceremony than I am fond of. found them finer ships than your own of the same class, well manned and officered. A number of American gentlemen also were on board at the time, and some ladies. As I was taking leave, an American lady asked me for a rose which I wore, for the purpose, she said, of sending to America "I hear you are in London. You will have heard something which I had about me, as a memorial. I from Douglas Kinnaird (who tells me you have dined need not add that I felt the compliment properly. with him) as much as you desire to know of my Captain Chauncey showed me an American and affairs at home and abroad. I have lately lost my very pretty edition of my poems, and offered me a little girl Allegra by a fever, which has been a seri- passage to the United States, if I would go there Commodore Jones was also not less kind and atten "I did not write to you lately, (except one letter tive. I have since received the enclosed letter, deto Murray's,) not knowing exactly your 'where- siring me to sit for my picture for some Americans. abouts. Douglas K. refused to forward my mes- It is singular that, in the same year that Lady Noel age to Mr. Southey-chy, he himself can explain. leaves by will an interdiction for my daughter to see You will have seen the statement of a squab- her father's portrait for many years, the individuals ble, &c., &c. What are you about? Let me hear of a nation not remarkable for their liking to the froin you at your leisure, and believe me ever yours, English in particular, nor for flattering men in general, request me to sit for my pourtraicture, as Baron Bradwardine calls it. I am also told of considerable literary honors in Germany. Goethe, I am told, is my professed patron and protector. At Leipsic, this year, the highest prize was proposed for a translation of two cantos of Childe Harold. I am not sure that this was at Leipsic, but Mr. Rowcroft was my authority-a good German scholar, (a young American,) and an acquaintance of Goethe's LETTER DLXII. TO MR. MURRAY. "N. B." "Montenero, May 26, 1822, "Near Leghorn. "The body is embarked, in what ship I know not, neither could I enter into the details: but the Coun •Here follows a repetition of the details given on this subject to Sir Walter Bott and others. A hill, three or four miles from Legh un, much resorted to as a place of residence during the summer montas. "Goethe and the Germans are particularly fond of Don Juan, which they judge of as a work of art. I had heard something of this before, through Baron Lutzerode. The translations have been very fre. quent of several of the works, and Goethe made a comparison between Faust and Manfred. "All this is some compensation for your English native brutality, so fully displayed this year to its but in the proofs: look at the dites and the MSS uighest extent. themselves. Whatever faults they have must sp.iną "I forgot to mention a little anecdote of a differ- from carelessness, and not from labor. They said ent kind. I went over the Constitution, (the Com- the same of Lara,' which I wrote while undressing, modore's flag-ship,) and saw, anong other things after coming home from balls and masquerades in worthy of remark, a little boy born on board of her the year of revelry, 1814. by a sailor's wife. They had christened him Con stitution Jones.' I, of course, approved the name; and the woman added, 'Ah, sir, if he turns out but half as good as his name!' "Yours ever, &c." LETTER DLXIII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Montenero, near Leghorn, May 29, 1822. Yours. "You give me no explanation of your intention as to the Vision of Quevedo Redivivus,' one of ty best things: indeed, you are altogether so abstruse and undecided lately, that I suppose you mean me to write John Murray, Esq., a Mystery,'-a composition which would not displease the clergy nor the trade. I by no means wish you to do what you don't like, but merely to say what you will do. The Vision must be published by some one. As to clamors,' the die is cast; and come one, come all' we will fight it out-at least one of us." LETTER DLXV. TO MR. MOORE. I return you the proofs revised. Your printer has made one odd mistake:-poor as a mouse,' instead of 'poor as a miser.' The expression may seem strange, but it is only a translation of 'semper avarus eget.' You will add the Mystery, and publish as soon as you can. I care nothing for your season,' nor the blue approbations or disapprobations. All that is to be considered by you on the "Montenero, Villa Dupoy, near Leghom, June 8, 1902. subject is as a matter of business; and if I square that to your notions, (even to the running the risk of Murray, and on one subject, trite enough,-the "I have written to you twice through the medium entirely myself,) you may permit me to choose my loss of poor little Allegra by a fever; on which own time and mode of publication. With regard topic I shall say no more-there is nothing but to the late volume, the present run against it or me may impede it for a time, but it has the vital principle of permanency within it, as you may perhaps one day discover. I wrote to you on another subject a few days ago. "Yours, time. Lord Clare, came over from Geneva on purpose to "A few days ago, my earliest and dearest friend, see me before he returned to England. As I have always loved him (since I was thirteen, at Harrow) "P. S. Please to send me the Dedication of hardly say what a melancholy pleasure it was to see better than any (male) thing in the world, I need Sardanapalus to Goethe. I shall prefix it to Wer-him for a day only; for he was obliged to resume ner, unless you prefer my putting another, stating his journey immediately that the former had been omitted by the publisher. "On the title-page of the present volume, put I have heard, also, many other things of our ePublished for the Author by J. M.'" quaintances which I did not know; among others, LETTER DLXIV. TO MR. MURRAY. that Do you recollect, in the year of revelry, 1814, the pleasantest parties and balls all over London? and not the least so at 's. Do you recollect your singing duets with Lady, and my flirtation with Lady, and all the other fooleries of the time? while sighing, and Lady ogling him with her clear hazel eyes. But eight years have passed, and since "I return you the revise of Werner, and expect that time, has - has run the rest. With regard to the lines to the Po, per-away with ; and mysen (as my Nottinghaps you had better put them quietly in a second hamshire friends call themselves) might as well edition (if you reach one, that is to say) than in have thrown myself out of the window while you the first; because, though they have been reckoned were singing, as intermarried where I did. You fine, and I wish them to be preserved, I do not wish and have come off the best of us. I "Montenero, Leghorn, June 6, 1822. them to attract IMMEDIATE observation, on account speak merely of my marriage and its consequences, of the relationship of the lady to whom they are ad-distresses, and calumnies; for I have been much dressed with the first families in Romagna and the more happy, on the whole, since, than I ever could Marches. have been with "The defender of 'Cain' may or may not be, as "I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in you term him, 'a tryo in literature: however, I faithful transcription of the impartial Galignanithink both you and I are under great obligation to I suppose the long and short of it is, that he wishes him. I have read the Edinburgh Review in Galig- to provoke me to reply. But I won't, for I owe him nani's Magazine, and have not yet decided whether a good turn still for his kindness by-gone. Indeed, to answer them or not; for, if I do, it will be diffi-I presume that the present opportunity of attackcult for me not to make sport for the Philistines,' ing me again was irresistible; and I can't blame by pulling down a house or two; since, when I once him, knowing what human nature is. I shall make take pen in hand, I must say what comes upper- but one remark :—what does he mean by elaborate } most, or fling it away. I have not the hypocrisy to The whole volume was written with the greatest pretend impartiality, nor the temper (as it is called) rapidity, in the midst of evolutions and revolutions, to keep always from saying what may not be pleas- and persecutions, and proscriptions of all who inte ing to the hearer or reader. What do they mean rested me in Italy. They said the same of Lara,' by 'elaborate?' Why, you know that they were which you know, was written amid balls and foolwritten as fast as I could put pen to paper, and eries, and after coming home from masquerades printed from the original MSS., and never revised and routs, in the summer of the sovereigns. Of all • Werner. I have ever written, they are perhaps the most care lessly com., osed; and their faults, whatever they may be, are those of negligence, and not of labor. I do name of Michael to Raphael, who was an angel of not think this a merit, but it is a fact. "Yours ever and truly, "N. B. 66 Yours, &c " gentler sympathies. By-the-way, recollect to alter Michael to Raphael in the scene itself throughout, for I have only had time to do so in the list of the "P. S. You see the great advantage of my new dramatis persona, and scratch out all the penci signature it may either stand for Nota Bene' or marks, to avoid puzzling the printers. I have giver. 'Noel Byron,' and, as such, will save much repeti- the Vision of Quevedo Redivivus' to John Hunt, tion, in writing either books or letters. Since I which will relieve you from a dilemma. He must came here, I have been invited on board of the publish it at his own risk, as it is at his own desire. American squadron, and treated with all possible Give him the corrected copy which Mr. Kinnaird honor and ceremony. They have asked me to sit had, as it is mitigated partly, and also the preface for my picture; and, as I was going away, an American lady took a rose from me, (which had been given to me by a very pretty Italian lady that very morning,) because she said, 'She was determined to send or take something which I had about me to America. There is a kind of Lalla Rookh incident for you! However, all these American honors arise, perhaps, not so much from their enthusiasm for my poeshie,' as their belief in my dislike to the English,-in which I have the satisfaction to coincide with them. I would rather, however, have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor." LETTER DLXVI. TO MR. ELLICE. "Montenero, Leghorn, June 12, 1822. LETTER DLXVIII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Pisa, July 8, 1822. "Last week I returned you the packet of proofs. You had perhaps better not publish in the same volume the Po and Rimini translation. "I have consigned a letter to Mr. John Hunt for the Vision of Judgment,' which you will hand over to him. Also the Pulci,' original and Italian, and any prose tracts of mine; for Mr. Leigh Hunt is arrived here, and thinks of commencing a periodical work, to which I shall contribute. I do not propose to you to be the publisher, because I know that you are unfriends; but all things in your care, except the volume now in the press, and the manuscript purchased of Mr. Moore, can be given for this purpose according as they are wanted. MY DEAR ELLICE, "It is a long time since I have written to you, but I have not forgotten your kindness, and I am now going to tax it-I hope not too highly-but don't "With regard to what you say about your 'want be alarmed, it is not a loan, but information which of memory,' I can only remark that you inserted I am about to solicit. By your extensive connex- the note to Marino Faliero against my positive retons, no one can have better opportunities of hear- vocation, and that you omitted the Dedication of ing the real state of South America-I mean Boli- Sardanapalus to Goethe, (place it before the volume var's country. I have many years had transatlantic now in the press,) both of which were things not projects of settlement, and what I could wish from very agreeable to me, and which I could wish to be you would be some information of the best course avoided in future, as they might be with a very to pursue, and some letters of recommendation in little care, or a simple memorandum in your pocketcase I should sail for Angostura. I am told that book. land is very cheap there; but though I have no great disposable funds to vest in such purchases, yet my income, such as it is, would be sufficient in any country, (except England,) for all the comforts life, and for most of its luxuries. The war there is now over, and as I do not go there to speculate, but to settle without any views but those of independence and the enjoyment of the common civil rights, I should presume such an arrival would not be unwelcome. "It is not impossible that I may have three or four cantos of Don Juan ready by autumn, or a little later, as I obtained a permission from my dictatress to continue it,-provided always it was to be more guarded and decorous and sentimental in the continuation than in the commencement. How far these conditions have been fulfilled may be seen, perhaps, by-and-by; but the embargo was only taken off upon these stipulations. You can answer at your leisure. "Yours, &c." LETTER DLXIX. TO MR. MOORE. "Pisa, July 12, 1822. "All I request of you is, not to discourage nor encourage, but to give me such a statement as you think prudent and proper. I do not address my other friends upon this subject, who would only throw obstacles in my way, and bore me to return to England; which I never will do, unless compelled by some insuperable cause. I have a quantity of furniture, books, &c., &c., &c., which I could easily ship from Leghorn; but I wish to look before I "I have written to you lately, but not in answer leap' over the Atlantic. Is it true that for a few to your last letter of about a fortnight ago. I wish thousand dollars a large tract of land may be obtained? I speak of South America, recollect. I have read some publications on the subject, but they seemed violent and vulgar party productions. Please to address your answer to me at this place, and believe me ever and truly yours, &c." LETTER DLXVII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Pisa, July 6, 1822. "I return you the revise. I have softened the part to which Gifford objected, and changed the • Of "Heaven and Earth." to know (and request an answer to that point) what became of the stanzas to Wellington,* (intended to open a canto of Don Juan with,) which I sent you several months ago? If they have fallen into Murray's hands, he and the Tories will suppress them, as those lines rate that hero at his real value. Pray be explicit on this, as I have no other copy, having sent you the original; and if you have them, let me have that again, or a copy correct. like to look over the press myself. Let me know what you think, or whether I had better not,—a least, not the second part, which touches on the actual confines of still existing matters. surpass him; and therefore I have sent but the above sum, as you will see by the enclosed receipt. Leigh Hunt is here, after a voyage of eight months, during which he has, I presume, made the Periplus of Hanno the Carthaginian, and with "I have written three more cantos of Don Juan, much the same speed. He is setting up a Journal, and am hovering on the brink of another, (the to which I have promised to contribute and in the ninth.) The reason I want the stanzas again which first number the Vision of Judgment, by Queve- I sent you is, that as these cantos contain a full do Redivivus,' will probably appear with other ar- detail (like the storm in canto second) of the siege and assault of Ismael with much of sarcasm on ticles. "Can you give us any thing? He seems sanguine those butchers in large business, your mercenary about the matter, but (entre nous) I am not. I do soldiery, it is a good opportunity of gracing the not, however, like to put him out of spirits by say-poem with . With these ing so; for he is bilious and unwell. Do, pray, an- things and these fellows, it is necessary, in the pres swer this letter immediately. ent clash of philosophy and tyranny, to throw away the scabbard. I know it is against fearful odds; but the battle must be fought; and it will be event ually for the good of mankind, whatever it may be for the individual who risks himself. "Do send Hunt any thing, in prose or verse, of yours, to start him handsomely-any lyrical, irical, or what you please. "Has not your potato committee been blundering? Your advertisement says, that Mr. L. Calla- "What do you think of your Irish bishop? Do ghan (a queer name for a banker) hath been dispos- you remember Swift's line, Let me have a barrack ing of money in Ireland sans authority of the com--a fig for the clergy.' This seems to have been his mittee.' I suppose it will end in Callaghan's calling reverence's motto." out the committee, the chairman of which carries pistol's in his pocket, of course. "When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting and clareting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you. I doubt whether Paris is a good place for the composition of your new poesy. "Yours, &c." LETTER DLXX. TO MR. MOORE "Pisa, August 8, 1822. LETTER DLXXI. TO MR. MOORE. "Pisa, August 27, 1322, 'It is boring to trouble you with such small gear; but it must be owned that I should be glad if you would inquire whether my Irish subscription ever reached the committee in Paris from Leghorn. My reasons, like Velium's, are threefold:' First, I "You will have heard by this time that Shelley benevolent cash: second, I do suspect that the said doubt the accuracy of all almoners, or remitters of and another gentleman (Captain Williams) were committee having in part served its time to timedrowned about a month ago, (a month yesterday,) serving, may have kept back the acknowledgment in a squall off the Gulf of Spezia. There is thus of an obnoxious politician's name in their lists; another man gone, about whom the world was ill- and, third, I feel pretty sure that I shall one day be naturedly, and ignorantly, and brutally mistaken.- twitted by the government scribes for having been It will, perhaps, do him justice now, when he can a professor of love for Ireland, and not coming forbe no better for it. You were all mistaken about ward with the others in her distresses. Shelley, who was, without exception, the best and least selfish man I ever knew.' self in it. "It is not, as you may opine, that I am ambitious of having my name in the papers, as I can have "I have not seen the thing you mention, and that any day in the week gratis. All I want is, to only heard of it casually, nor have I any desire.- know if the Reverend Thomas Hall did or did not The price is, as I saw in some advertisements, four-remit my subscription (two hundred scudi of Tusteen shillings, which is too much to pay for a libel on one's self. Some one said in a letter, that it was the count.ee at Paris. cany, or about a thousand francs, more or less) to a Doctor Watkins, who deals in the life and libel line. It must have diminished your natural pleas- to swim off to my schooner (the Bolivar) in the The other day at Viareggio, I thought proper ure, as a friend, (vide Rochefoucault,) to see your-offing, and thence to shore again-about three miles, or better, in all. As it was at midday, under a broil"With regard to the Black wood fellows, I never published any thing against them; nor, indeed, have and my whole skin's coming off, after going through ing sun, the consequence has been a feverish attack, seen their Magazine (except in Galignani's extracts) the process of one large continuous blister, raised for these three years past. I once wrote, a good by the sun and sea together. I have suffered much while ago, some remarkst on their review of Don Juan, but saying very little about themselves, and pain; not being able to lie on my back, or even these were not published. If you think that I ought Bartholomewed. But it is over,-and I have got a side; for my shoulders and arms were equally St. to follow your example (and I like to be in your new skin, and am as glossy as a snake in its new company when I can) in contradicting their impu-suit. dence, you may shape this deciaration of mine into "We have been burning the bodies of Shelley a similar paragraph for me. It is possible that you and Williams on the sea-shore, to render them fit may have seen the little I did write (and never pub- for removal and regular interment. You can have lished) at Murray's; it contained much more about. no idea what an extraordinary effect such a funeral Southey than about the Blacks. "If you think that I ought to do any thing about background and the sea before, and the singular pile has, on a desolate shore, with mountains in the Watkins's book, I should not care much about pub-appearance the salt and frankincense gave to the lishing my memoir now, should it be necessary to flame. All of Shelley was consumed, except ass counteract the fellow. But in that case, I should heart, which would not take the flame, and is now preserved in spirits of wine. • A book which had just appeared, entitled "Memoirs of the Right Hon. Lord Byron." "Your old acquaintance, Londonderry, has quietly died at North Cray! and the virtuous De Witt was It had been asserted, in a late number of Blackwood, that both Lord torn in pieces by the populace! What a lucky ↑ Bee Letters to the Editors of Blackwood's Magazine, page 1010, Byron and myself were employed in writing satires against that Magazine.— Moors. ⚫ Alluding to Wellington. See the beginning of canÁS LE, the Irishman has been in his life and end.aground; and I could not see them in such a state In in your Irish Franklin est mort! without using the common feelings of humanity, "Leigh Hunt is sweating articles for his new and what means were in my power, to set them Journal; and both he and I think it somewhat afloat again. shabby in you not to contribute. Will you become "So Douglas Kinnaird is out of the way? He one of the properrietors? Do, and we go snacks.' was so the last time I sent him a parcel, and he I recommend you to think twice before you respond gives no previous notice. When is he expected in the negative. again? "I have nearly (quite three) four new cantos > Don Juan ready. I obtained permission from the female censor morum of my morals to continue it, provided it were immaculate; so I have been as decent as need be. There is a deal of war-a siege, and all that, in the style, graphical and technical, of the shipwreck in canto second, which took,' as they say, in the Row. "Yours, &c. "Yours, &c. Werner and the Mystery, or not? You never once "P. S. Will you say at once-do you publish allude to them. "That cursed advertisement of Mr. J. Hunt is out of the limits. I did not lend him my name to be hawked about in this way. ་ "However, I believe at least, hope-that after "P. S. That✦✦ Galignani has about ten lies all you may be a good fellow at bottom, and it is on in one paragraph. It was not a Bible that was this presumption that I now write to you on the found in Shelley's pocket, but John Keats's poems. subject of a poor woman of the name of Yossy, who However, it would not have been strange, for he is, or was, an author of yours, as she says, and pubwas a great admirer of scripture as a composition. lished a book on Switzerland, in 1816, patronized I did not send my bust to the academy of New-by the Court and Colonel M'Mahon.' But it seems York; but I sat for my picture to young West, an that neither the Court nor the Colonel could get American artist, at the request of some members of over the portentous price of three pounds thirteen that academy to him that he would take my portrait, and sixpence,' which alarmed the too susceptible -for the academy, I believe. public; and, in short, the book died away, and "I had, and still have, thoughts of South what is worse, the poor soul's husband died too, America, but am fluctuating between it and Greece. and she writes with the man a corpse before her; I should have gone, long ago, to one of them, but but instead of addressing the bishop or Mr. Wilberfor my liaison with the Countess G.; for love, in force, she hath recourse to that proscribed, atheistithese days, is little compatible with glory. She cal, syllogistical, philogistical person, mysen, as they would be delighted to go too, but I do not choose to expose her to a long voyage, and a residence in an unsettled country, where I shall probably take a part of some sort." LETTER DLXXII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Genoa, October 9, 1822. say in Notts. It is strange enough, but the rascaillo English, who calumniate me in every direction and on every score, whenever they are in great distress recur to me for assistance. If I have had one example of this, I have had letters from a thousand, and as far as is in my power have tried to repay good for evil, and purchase a shilling's worth of salvation as long as my pocket can hold out. "Now, I am willing to do what I can for this unfortunate person; but her situation and her wishes (not unreasonable, however) require more than can be advanced by one individual like myself; for 1 I have received your letter, and as you explain have many claims of the same kind just at present, it, I have no objection, on your account, to omit and also some remnants of debt to pay in Englandthose passages in the new Mystery, (which were God, he knows, the latter how reluctantly! Can marked in the half-sheet sent the other day to Pisa,) the Literary Fund do nothing for her? By your or the passage in Cain,-but why not be open, and interest, which is great among the pious, I dare say say so at first? You should be more straight- that something might be collected. Can you get any of her books published? Suppose you took her forward on every account. "I have been very unwell-four days confined to as author in my place, now vacant among your ragamy bed, in the worst inn's worst room,' at Lerici, muffins: she is a moral and pious person, and will with a violent rheumatic and bilious attack, consti- shine upon your shelves. But, seriously, do what pation, and the devil knows what :-no physician, you can for her.” except a young fellow, who, however, was kind and cautious, and that's enough. LETTER DLXXIII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Genoa, 9bre 29, 1824. "At last I seized Thompson's book of prescriptions, (a donation of yours,) and physicked myself with the first dose I found in it; and after undergoing the ravages of all kinds of decoctions, sallied from bed on the fifth day to cross the Gulf to Sestri. The sea revived me instantly; and I ate the sailors' cold fish, and drank a gallon of country wine, and "I have to thank you for a parcel of books, which got to Genoa the same night after landing at Sestri, are very welcome, especially Sir Walter's gift of and have ever since been keeping well, but thinner, Halidon Hill.' You have sent me a copy of Werand with an occasional cough towards evening. ner, but without the preface. If you have pub"I am afraid the Journal is a bad business, and lished it without, you will have plunged me into a won't do but in it I am sacrificing myself for others very disagreeable dilemma, because I shall be ac-I can have no advantage in it. I believe the cused of plagiarism from Miss Lee's German's brothers Hunts to be honest men; I am sure that Tales, whereas I have fully and freely acknowledged they are poor ones: they have not a nap. They that the drama is entirely taken from the story. pressed me to engage in this work, and in an evil "I return you the Quarterly Review, uncut and hour I consented. Still I shall not repent, if I can unopened, not from disrespect, or disregard, or do them the least service. I have done all I can for pique, but it is a kind of reading which I have some Leigh Hunt since he came here; but it is almost time disused, as I think the periodical style of useless-his wife is ill, his six children not very writing hurtful to the habits of the mind by presenttractable, and in the affairs of this world he himself ing the superfices of too many things at once. I do is a child. The death of Shelley left them totally not know that it contains any thing disagreeable to me-it may or it may not; nor do I return it on ac• The particulars of this event had, it is evident, not yet reached him.- count that there may be an article which you hinted at in one of your late letters, but because I have left Moore. |