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Astarte: a Fragment of Truth
Augusta Leigh to Lady Byron, [16 July 1816]
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Introduction
Preface
Contents
I. Byron Characteristics
II. Three Stages of Lord Byron’s Life
III. Manfred
IV. Correspondence of Augusta Byron
V. Anne Isabella Byron
VI. Lady Byron’s Policy of Silence
VII. Informers and Defamers
VIII. “When We Dead Awake”
IX. Lady Byron and Mrs. Leigh (I)
X. Lady Byron and Mrs. Leigh (II)
XI. Byron and Augusta
Notes by the Editor
Appendix
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Tuesday. (16th July, 1816).

I could not get a frank for this yesterday—which worried me as I wished to have despatched this letter all imperfect as it is—but I really cannot express myself as
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LADY BYRON AND MRS LEIGH (II)
I wish to you & therefore must trust to you to understand me—& make allowances for what is deficient—there are more things I would write to you—Would to God that our hearts had been open to each other from the first—it might have saved me unintentional errors—I hope my dear A you won’t think it wrong in me to desire this—you are the only being on this earth whom I could have wish’d to confide in.

I’ve been interrupted & can only now say my dear A—

yr most affece & grateful
[a dash for signature.]

I shall remain here all this week—& until after the R . . . l Marriage.