LORD  BYRON  and  his  TIMES
Byron
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In Whig Society 1775-1818
Lord Cowper to Lady Melbourne, [May] 1805
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“A thousand thanks for your kind letter. I really cannot thank you for it as I ought, for I am nearly the same person that you saw me on Monday, and you may easily judge therefore how unfit I am to do justice to the kindness it conveys. I shall be extremely happy to come to Brocket on Friday and stay till Monday when I think the whole may be declared. Pray do not mention
LADY MELBOURNE’S CHILDREN83
it before we meet. . . . I shall certainly get it all arranged before we go to town; you must not go to D. House tomorrow night or I know very well that your looks will betray you.

“Don’t you think that if the above proposal is right that the communication between the lawyers ought to be deferr’d till we get to town. I own it goes to my very soul that a moment should be lost and I am hardly able to resist such a triumph as impatience would have over prudence in such a case, but I believe after all it will be best. I am glad Lord Dorchester is not here, for I believe it would kill me. Pray burn this.

“Yrs. most affectly.
“Cowper.
“Panshanger,
Wednesday. 1805.”