magis pares quem similes in our affliction. Yet it is LETTER CCXC. TO MR. HUNT. "Feb. 28, 1816. in my choice' (unless in choosing at all)-for I de not believe, and I must say it, in the very dregs of all this bitter business, that there ever was a better; or even a brighter, a kinder, or a more amiable and agreeable being than Lady B. I never had, nor can have, any reproach to make her, while with me. Where there is blame, it belongs to myself; and, il I cannot redeem, I must bear it. "Her nearest relatives are a -my circumstances have been and are in a state of great confusion-my health has been a good deal disordered, "DEAR HUNT, and my mind ill at ease for a considerable period. "Your letter would have been answered before, Such are the causes (I do not name them as excuses) had I not thought it probable that, as you were in which have frequently driven me into excess, and town for a day or so, I should have seen you;-1 disqualified my temper for comfort. Something don't mean this as a hint at reproach for not call- also may be attributed to the strange and desultory ing, but merely that of course I should have been habits which, becoming my own master at an early very glad if you had called in your way, home or age, and scrambling about, over and through the abroad, as I always would have been, and always world, may have induced. I still, however, think shall be. With regard to the circumstances to which that, if I had had a fair chance, by being placed in you allude, there is no reason why you should not even a tolerable situation, I might have gone on speak openly to me on a subject already sufficiently fairly. But that seems hopeless, and there is nothrife in the mouths and minds of what is called the ing more to be said. At present-except my health, world. Of the fifty reports,' it follows that forty- which is better (it is odd, but agitation or contest of nine must have more or less exaggeration; but I any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me am sorry to say, that on the main and essential up for the time)-I have to battle with all kinds of point of an intended, and, it may be, an inevitable unpleasantnesses, including private and pecuniary separation, I can contradict none. At present I difficulties, &c., &c. shall say no more, but this is not from want of con- "I believe I may have said this before to you,fidence; in the mean time I shall merely request a but I risk repeating it. It is nothing to bear the suspension of opinion. Your prefatory letter to privations of adversity, or, more properly, ill for Rimini' I accepted as it was meant, as a public tune; but my pride recoils from its indignities. compliment and a private kindness. I am only However, I have no quarrel with that same pride, sorry that it may perhaps operate against you as an which will, I think, buckler me through every inducement, and, with some, a pretext for attack thing. If my heart could have been broken, ít on the part of the political and personal enemies of would have been so years ago, and by events more both; not that this can be of much consequence, afflicting than these. for in the end the work must be judged by its "I agree with you (to turn from this topic to our merits, and, in that respect, you are well armed. shop) that I have written too much. The last Murray tells me it is going on well, and, you may things were, however, published very reluctantly by depend upon it, there is a substratum of poetry, me, and for reasons I will explain when me meet. which is a foundation for solid and durable fame. I know not why I have dwelt so much on the same The objections (if there be objections, for this is a scenes, except that I find them fading, or confusing presumption, and not an assumption) will be merely (if such a word may be) in my memory, in the as to the mechanical part, and such, as I stated midst of present turbulence and pressure, and I felt before, the usual consequences of either novelty or anxious to stamp before the die was worn out. I revival. I desired Murray to forward to you a now break it. With those countries, and events pamphlet with two things of mine in it, the most connected with them, all my really poetical feelings part of both of them, and of one in particular, begin and end. Were I to try, I could make noth written before others of my composing, which have ing of any other subject, and that I have apparently preceded them in publication; they are neither of exhausted. 'Wo to him,' says Voltaire, who says them of much pretension, nor intended for it. You all he could say on any subject.' There are some will perhaps wonder at my dwelling so much and so on which, perhaps, I could have said still more: frequently on former subjects and scenes; but the but I leave them all, and not too soon. fact is, that I found them fading fast from my "Do you remember the lines I sent you early last memory; and I was, at the same time, so partial to year, which you still have? I don't wish (like Mr. their place, (and events connected with it,) that I Fitzgerald, in the Morning Post) to claim the char have stamped them while I could, in such colors as acter of Vates' in all its translations; but were I could trust to now, but might have confused and they not a little prophetic? I mean those begin misplaced hereafter, had I longer delayed the ning There's not a joy the world can,* &c., de, attempted delineation." LETTER CCXCI. TO MR. MOORE. "March 8, 1816. on which I rather pique myself as being the truest, though the most melancholy, I ever wrote. "What a scrawl have I sent you! You say nothing of yourself, except that you are a Lancasterian churchwarden, and an encourager of mendicants. When are you out? and how is your family? My child is very well and flourishing, I hear; but I must see also. I feel no disposition to resign it to the contagion of its grandmother's society, though I am unwilling to take it from the mother's. It is weaned, however, and something about it must be decided. "Ever, &c." "I rejoice in your promotion as Chairman and Charitable Steward, &c., &c. These be dignities which await only the virtuous. But then, recollect, you are six-and-thirty, (I speak this enviously-not of your age, but the 'honor-love-obediencetroops of friends,' which accompany it,) and I have [The letter that follows was in answer to one eight years good to run before I arrive at such received from Mr. Murray, in which he had enclosed hoary perfection; by which time,-if I am at all, him a draft for a thousand guineas for the copy it will probably be in a state of grace or progressing right of his two poems, the Siege of Corinth and Parisina.] merits. "I must set you right in one point, however. The fault was not-no, nor even the misfortune, • See Poema, p. 549. LETTER CCXCII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Jan. 2, 1816. I it was large, I admitted and admit; and that made part of my consideration in refusing it, till I knew better what you were likely to make of it. With regard to what is past, or is to pass, about Mr. * "Your offer is liberal in the extreme, (you see I the case is in no respect different from the transfer use the word to you and of you, though I would not of former copyrights to Mr. Dallas. Had I taken consent to your using it of yourself to Mr. *,) you at your word, that is, taken your money, and much more than the two poems can possibly be might have used it as I pleased; and it could be in worth; but I cannot accept it, nor will not. You no respect different to you whether I paid it to a are most welcome to them as additions to the col-w-, or a hospital, or assisted a man of talent in lected volumes, without any demand or expectation distress. The truth of the matter seems this: you on my part whatever. But I cannot consent to offered more than the poems are worth. I said so, their separate publication. I do not like to risk and I think so; but you know, or at least ought to any fame (whether merited or not) which I have know, your own business best; and when you recolbeen favored with, upon compositions which I do lect what passed between you and me upon pecunot feel to be at all equal to my own notions of niary subjects before this occurred, you will acquit what they should be, (and as I flatter myself some me of any wish to take advantage of your impruhave been, here and there,) though they may do dence. very well as things without pretension, to add to "The things in question shall not be published at the publication with the lighter pieces. all, and there is an end of the matter. 66 am very glad that the handwriting was a favorable omen of the morale of the piece: but you must not trust to that, for my copyist would write out any thing I desired in all the ignorance of innocence-I hope, however, in this instance, with no great peril to either. LETTER CCXCV "Yours, &c." TO MR. MURRAY. "March 6, 1816. "P. S. I have enclosed your draft torn, for fear of accidents by the way-I wish you would not throw temptation in mine. It is not from a disdain of the universal idol, not from a present superfluity "I sent to you to-day for this reason-the books of his treasures, I can assure you, that I refuse to you purchased are again seized, and, as matters worship him; but what is right is right, and must not yield to circumstances.' LETTER CCXCIII. TO MR. ROGERS. "Feb. 20, 1816. you "P. S. I need hardly say that I knew nothing till this day of the new seizure. I had released them from former ones, and thought, when you took them, that they were yours. "You shall have your bill again to-morrow stand, had much better be sold at once by public auction. I wish to see you, to return your bill for them; which, thank God, is neither due nor paid. That part, as far as you are concerned, being settled, (which it can be, and shall be, when I see you to-morrow,) I have no further delicacy about the matter. This is about the tenth execution in as many months; so I am pretty well hardened; but it is fit I should pay the forfeit of my forefather's extravagance and my own; and whatever my faults "I wrote to you hastily this morning by Murray, may be, I suppose they will be pretty well explained to say that I was glad to do as Mackintosh and in time-or eternity. "Ever, &c. suggested about Mr. **. It occurs to me now, that as I have never seen Mr. but once, and consequently have no claim to his acquaintance, that you or Sir J. had better arrange it with him in such a manner as may be least offensive to his feelings, and so as not to have the appearance of officiousness nor obtrusion on my part. I hope you will be able to do this, as I should be very sorry to do any thing by him that may be deemed indelicate. The sum Murray offered and offers was and is one thousand and fifty pounds: this I refused before, because I thought it more than the two things were worth to Murray, and from other objections, which are of no consequence. I have, however, closed "I sent for Marmion,' which I return, because with M., in consequence of Sir J.'s and your sug- it occurred to me, there might be a resemblance gestion, and propose the sum of six hundred pounds between part of Parisina' and a similar scene in to be transferred to Mr. in such manner as may canto II. of Marmion.' I fear there is, though I seem best to your friend,-the remainder I think of never thought of it before, and could hardly wish to for other purposes. imitate that which is inimitable. I wish you would ask Mr. Gifford whether I ought to say any thing upon it;-I had completed the story on the passage from Gibbon, which indeed leads to a like scene naturally, without a thought of the kind: but it comes upon me not very comfortably. As Murray has offered the money down for the copyrights, it may be done directly. I am ready to sign and seal immediately, and perhaps it had better not be delayed. I shall feel very glad if it can be of any use to; only don't let him be plagued, nor think himself obliged and all that, which makes people hate one another, &c. "Yours, very truly, "B." arate publication, as you know and I know. That vastly agreeable. With regard to the observations on carelessness, &c., I think, with all humility, in my boat round the lake; and I enclose you that the gentle reader has considered a rather un- sprig of Gibbon's acacia and some rose leaves from common, and designedly irregular, versification for his garden, which, with part of his house, I have haste and negligence. The measure is not that of just seen. You will find honorable mention, in his any of the other poems, which (I believe) were Life, made of this acacia,' when he walked out on allowed to be tolerably correct, according to Bysshe the night of concluding his history. The garden and the fingers-or cars-by which bards write, and and summer-house, where he composed, are nereaders reckon. Great part of the Siege' is in glected, and the last utterly decayed; but they still (I think) what the learned called Anapests, (though show it as his 'cabinet,' and seem perfectly aware I am not sure, being heinously forgetful of my of his memory. metres and my Gradus,') and many of the lines intentionally longer or shorter than its rhyming companion; and rhyme also occurring at greater or less intervals of caprice or convenience. "My route, through Flanders, and by the Rhine, to Switzerland, was all I expected and more. "I have traversed all Rousseau's ground, with the Heloise before me, and am struck to a degree "I mean not to say that this is right or good, but that I cannot express with the force and accuracy merely that I could have been smoother, had it of his descriptions, and the beauty of their reality. appeared to me of advantage; and that I was not Meillerie, Clarens, and Vevay, and the Chateau de otherwise without being aware of the deviation, Chillon, are places of which I shall say little, be though I now feel sorry for it, as I would undoubt- cause all I could say must fall short of the impresedly rather please than not. My wish has been to sions they stamp.* try at something different from my former efforts; "Three days ago, we were nearly wrecked in a as I endeavored to make them differ from each squall off Meillerie, and driven to shore. I ran no other. The versification of the Corsair' is not risk, being so near the rocks, and a good swimmer; that of Lara; nor the Giaour' that of the but our party were wet, and incommoded a good 'Bride;' Childe Harold' is again varied from deal. The wind was strong enough to blow down these; and I strove to vary the last somewhat some trees, as we found at landing; however, all is from all of the others. righted and right, and we are thus far on our return. "Dr. Polidori is not here, but at Diodati, left behind in the hospital with a sprained ankle, which he acquired in tumbling from a wall-he can't jump. "Excuse all this d-d nonsense and egotism.) The fact is, that I am rather trying to think on the subject of this note, than really thinking on it.-I did not know you had called: you are always admitted and welcome when you choose. "Yours, &c., &c. "I shall be glad to hear you are well, and have received for me certain helms and swords, sent from Waterloo which I rode over with pain and pleasure. "P. S. You need not be in any apprehension or "I have finished a third canto of Childe Harold, grief on my account: were I to be beaten down by (consisting of one hundred and seventeen stanzas,) the world and its inheritors, I should have suc- longer than either of the two former, and in some cumbed to many things years ago. You must not parts, it may be, better; but of course on that I mistake my not bullying for dejection; nor imagine cannot determine. I shall send it by the first safethat because I feel, I am too faint:-but enough for looking opportunity. the present. "I am sorry for Sotheby's row. What the devil is it about? I thought it all settled; and if I can do any thing about him or Ivan still, I am ready and willing. I do not think it proper for me just now to be much behind the scenes, but I will see the committee and move upon it, if Sotheby likes. "If you see Mr. Sotheby, will you tell him that I wrote to Mr. Coleridge, on getting Mr. Sotheby's note, and have, I hope, done what Mr. S. wished on that subject?" LETTER CCXCVIII. TO MR. ROGERS. "March 25, 1815. LETTER CCC. TO MR. MURRAY. "Ever, &c." "Diodati, near Geneva, July 22, 1815. "I wrote to you a few weeks ago, and Dr. Polidori received your letter; but the packet has not made its appearance, nor the epistle, of which you gave notice therein. I enclose you an advertisement, which was copied by Dr. Polidori, and which appears to be about the most impudent imposition that ever issued from Grub street. I need hardly say that I know nothing of all this trash, nor whence it may spring,-'Odes to St. He"You are one of the few persons with whom I lena,' Farewells to England,' &c., &c.,-and if it have lived in what is called intimacy, and have can be disavowed, or is worth disavowing, you have heard me at times conversing on the untoward full authority to do so. I never wrote nor conceived topic of my recent family disquietudes. Will you a line on any thing of the kind, any more than of two have the goodness to say to me at once, whether other things with which I was saddled-something you ever heard me speak of her with disrespect, about Gaul,' and another about Mrs. La Valette; with unkindness, or defending myself at her ex- and as to the Lily of France,' I should as soon think "On the morning of my pense by any serious imputation of any description of celebrating a turnip. against her? Did you never hear me say, that daughter's birth,' I had other things to think of when there was a right or a wrong, she had the than verses; and should never have dreamed of right?'-The reason I put these questions to you or such an invention, till Mr. Johnston and his pamphothers of my friends is, because I am said, by her let's advertisement broke in upon me with a new and hers, to have resorted to such means of excul- light on the crafts and subtleties of the demon of pation. "Ever very truly yours, printing, or rather publishing. LETTER CCXCIX. TO MR. MURRAY. "B." "Ouchy, near Lausanne, June 27, 1816. "I am thus far (kept by stress of weather) on my way back to Diodati, (near Geneva,) from a voyage "I did hope that some succeeding lie would have superseded the thousand and one which were accu • See notes to canto iii. of Childe Harold. The following was the advertisement enclosed : "Neatly printed and hot-pressed, 2s. 6d. "Lord Byron's Farewell to England, with three other poems-Ode to St. "The above beautiful poems will be read with the most lively interest, ag it is probable they will be the last of the author's that will appear in Eng land."(They were written by a Mr. John Agg.) mulated during last winter. I can forgive whatever consistent with the consequences of not being in may be said of or against me, but not what they love, which is perhaps as disagreeable as any thing, make me say or sing for myself. It is enough to except being so. I doubt, however, whether all such answer for what I have written; but it were too liens (as he calls them) terminate so wretchedly as much for Job himself to bear what one has not. Ihis hero and heroine's. suspect that when the Arab patriarch wished that "There is a third canto (a longer than either of his enemy had written a book,' he did not antici- the former) of Childe Harold finished, and some pate his own name on the title-page. I feel quite smaller things,-among them a story on the Chatas much bored with this foolery as it deserves, and eau de Chillon. I only wait a good opportunity to more than I should be if I had not a headache. transmit them to the grand Murray, who, I hope, "Of Glenarvon, Madame de Staël told me (ten flourishes. Where is Moore? Why is he not out? days ago at Copet) marvellous and grievous things; My love to him, and my perfect consideration and but I have seen nothing of it but the motto, which remembrances to all, particularly to Lord and Lady promises amiably for us and for our tragedy.' If Holland, and to your Duchess of Somerset. such be the posy, what should the ring be?-a "Ever, &c. name to all succeeding,' &c. The generous mo- "P. S. I send you a fac simile, a note of Bonment selected for the publication is probably its stetten's, thinking you might like to see the hand of kindest accompaniment, and-truth to say-the Gray's correspondent." time was well chosen. I have not even a guess at the contents, except from the very vague accounts I have heard. "I ought to be ashamed of the egotism of this letter. It is not my fault altogether, and I shall be but too happy to drop the subject, when others will allow me. "I am in tolerable plight, and in my last letter told you what I had done in the way of all rhyme. I trust that you prosper, and that your authors are in good condition. I should suppose your stud has received some increase by what I hear. Bertramt must be a good horse; does he run next meeting I hope you will beat the Row. "Yours alway, &c." LETTER CCCI. TO MR. ROGERS. "Diodati, near Geneva, July 29, 1816. LETTER CCCII. TO MR. MURRAY. "Diodati, Sept. 29, 1816. "I am very much flattered by Mr. Gifford's good opinion of the MSS.* and shall be still more so, if it answers your expectations and justifies his kindness. I liked it myself, but that must go for nothing. The feelings with which most of it was written need not be envied me. With regard to the price, I fixed none, but left it to Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. Shelley, and yourself, to arrange. Of course, they would do their best; and as to yourself, I knew you would make no difficulties. But I agree with Mr. Kinnaird perfectly, that the concluding five hundred should be only conditional; and for my own sake, I wish it to be added, only in case of your selling a certain number, that number to be fixed by yourself. I hope this is fair. In every thing of Do you recollect a book, Mathieson's Letters, this kind there must be risk; and till that be past, which you lent me, which I have still, and yet hope in one way or the other, I would not willingly add to return to your library? Well, I have encoun- to it, particularly in times like the present. And tered at Copet and elsewhere Gray's correspondent, that same Bonstetten, to whom I lent the transla-pray always recollect that nothing could mortify me tion of his correspondent's epistles for a few days; made you lose by any purchase from me. more-no failure on my own part-than having but all he could remember of Gray amounts to lit tle, except that he was the most melancholy and Kinnaird for the theatre. I did as well as I could; "The Monody+ was written by request of Mr. gentlemanlike' of all possible poets. Bonstetten but where I have not my choice, I pretend to anhimself is a fine and very lively old man, and much swer for nothing. Mr. Hobhouse and myself are esteemed by his compatriots; he is also a littera- just returned from a journey of lakes and mounteur of good repute, and all his friends have a ma-tains. We have been to the Grindelwald, and the nia of addressing to him volumes of letters-Mathie- Jungfrau, and stood on the summit of the Wengen son, Muller the historian, &c., &c. He is a good Alp; and seen torrents of nine hundred feet in fall, deal at Copet, where I have met him a few times. and glaciers of all dimensions; we have heard shepAll there are well, except Rocca, who, I am sorry herd's pipes, and avalanches, and looked on the to say, looks in a very bad state of health. Schlegel clouds foaming up from the valleys below us, like is in high force, and Madame as brilliant as ever. "I came here by the Netherlands and the Rhine that which it inherits, we saw a month ago; but, the spray of the ocean of hell. Chamouni, and route, and Basle, Berne, Morat, and Lausanne. I though Mont Blanc is higher, it is not equal in have circumnavigated the Lake, and go to Chamou-wildness to the Jungfrau, the Eighers, the Shreckni with the first fair weather; but really we have horn, and the Rose Glaciers. had lately such stupid mists, fogs, and perpetual density, that one would think Castlereagh had the within this month infested with bandits, but we "We set off for Italy next week. The road is foreign affairs of the kingdom of Heaven also on must take our chance and such precautions as are his hands. I need say nothing to you of these parts, requsite. you having traversed them already. I do not think of Italy before September. I have read Glenarvon, and have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe, and his preface, denying the real people. It is a work which leaves an unpleasant impression, but very "Ever, &c. "P. S. My best remembrances to Mr. Gifford. Pray say all that can be said from me to him. "I am sorry that Mr. Maturin did not like Phillips' picture. I thought it was reckoned a good one. If he had made the speech on the original, perhaps he would have been more readily forgiven by the proprietor and the painter of the portrait." • • • Childe Harold, canto ül. On the death of Sheridan, poems, p. 525. TO MR. MURRAY. "Diodati, Oct. 5, 1916. "Save me a copy of Buck's Richard III.' repub lished by Longman; but do not send out more books -I have too many. "The Monody' is in too many paragraphs, which makes it unintelligible to me; if any one else understands it in the present form, they are wiser; how. ever, as it cannot be rectified till my return, and has been already published, even publish it on in the collection-it will fill up the place of the omitted lous. "Though the day of my destiny's, &c.,* I will request you to expunge that same, unless you please to add, by a person of quality,' or of wit and humor about town.' Merely say, written to be spoken at Drury Lane.' To-morrow I dine at epistle. Copet. Saturday strike tents for Italy. This "Strike out by request of a friend,' which is sad evening, on the lake in my boat with Mr. Hob- trash, and must have been done to make it ridicuhouse, the pole which sustains the mainsail, slipped in tacking, and struck me so violently on one of my "Be careful in the printing the stanzas beginning, legs, (the worst, luckily,) as to make me do a foolish thing, viz., to faint-a downright swoon; the thing must have jarred some nerve or other, for the bone is not injured, and hardly painful, (it is six hours which I think well of as a composition. since,) and cost Mr. Hobhouse some apprehension "The Antiquary' is not the best of the three, and much sprinkling of water to recover me. The but much above all the last twenty years, saving its sensation was a very odd one: I never had but two elder brothers. Holcroft's Memoirs are valuable, such before, once from a cut on the head from a as showing the strength of endurance in the man, stone, several years ago, and once (long ago also) which is worth more than all the talent in the world. in falling into a great wreath of snow;-a sort of "And so you have been publishing Margaret of gray giddiness first, then nothingness and a total Anjou' and an Assyrian tale, and refusing W. W.'s loss of memory on beginning to recover. The last Waterloo, and the Hue and Cry.' I know not part is not disagreeable, if one did not find it again. which most to admire, your rejections or accept"You want the original MSS. Mr. Davies has ances. I believe that prose is, after all, the most rethe first fair copy in my own hand, and I have the putable; for certes, if one could foresee-but I won't rough composition here, and will send or save it for go on-that is, with this sentence; but poetry is, you, since you wish it. I fear, incurable. God help me! if I proceed in "With regard to your new literary project, if any this scribbling, I shall have frittered away my mind thing falls in the way which will, to the best of my before I am thirty; but it is at times a real relief to judgment, suit you, I will send you what I can. At me. For the present-good evening." present I must lay by a little, having pretty well exhausted myself in what I have sent you. Italy or Dalmatia and another summer may, or may not, set me off again. I have no plans, and am nearly as indifferent what may come as where I go. I shall take Felicia Hemans' Restoration, &c., with me; it is a good poem-very. "Pray repeat my best thanks and remembrances to Mr. Gifford for all his trouble and good nature towards me. "Do not fancy me laid up, from the beginning of this scrawl. I tell you the accident for want of better to say; but it is over, and I am only wondering what the deuce was the matter with me. LETTER CCCV. TO MR. MURRAY. "Martigny, Oct. 9, 1816. "Thus far on my way to Italy. We have just passed the Pisse Vache' (one of the first torrents in Switzerland) in time to view the iris which the sun flings along it before noon. "I have lately been over all the Bernese Alps and "I have written to you twice lately. Mr. Davies, their lakes. I think many of the scenes (some of I hear, is arrived. He brings the original MS. which which were not those usually frequented by the you wished to see. Recollect that the printing is English) finer than Chamouni, which I visited some to be from that which Mr. Shelley brought; and time before. I have been to Clarens again, and recollect also that the concluding stanzas of Childe crossed the mountains behind it; of this tour I kept Harold (those to my daughter) which I had not a short journal for my sister, which I sent yester- made up my mind whether to publish or not when yay in three letters. It is not all for perusal; but they were first written, (as you will see marked on if you like to hear about the romantic part, she the margin of the first copy,) I had (and have) fully will, I dare say, show you what touches upon the determined to publish with the rest of the canto, as in the copy which you received by Mr. Shelley, bə"Christabel-I wont have any one sneer at Chris-fore I sent it to England. tabel: it is a fine, wild rocks, &c. poem. "Our weather is very fine, which is more than the summer has been.-At Milan I shall expect to hear from you Address either to Milan, poste restunte, "Madame de Staël wishes to see the Antiquary, or by way of Geneva, to the care of Monsr. Hentsch, and I am going to take it to her to-morrow. She Banquier. I write these few lines in case my other nas made Copet as agreeable as society and talent letter should not reach you; I trust one of them can make any place on earth. "Yours ever, • On the death of Sheridan. See Letter cexcix. will. "P. S. My best respects and regards to Mr. Gifford. Will you tell him, it may perhaps be as well to put a short note to that part relating to Clarens, merely to say, that of course the description does not refer to that particular spot so much as to the • See Poems, p. 554. |