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Byron
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Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
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Preface
Vol. I Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Vol. II Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
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Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
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“2, Elm Court, Temple.
“Dear Sir,

“I have looked over my article on the Bar carefully, with a view to your suggestion, and have submitted it to the perusal of several legal friends, and the result of our review is, that I cannot materially shorten it without rendering it incomplete and partial. To do this would be really to render what would be left untrue, because it would want qualification and equipoise, and, therefore, I am reluctantly obliged to decline the task. I do not write with much hope that you will take the article as it is; and I should he sorry to impose on you the unpleasant duty of writing a positive refusal, therefore I will understand your silence for an expression of dissent, and, after Tuesday next, if I hear nothing, consider myself left to dispose of the paper as chance may offer, or as I may be able to manage.

“I probably view the subject through the medium of prejudice, but to me it seems very far from being confined in interest to the legal profession. At all events, the Bar of England is as interesting to English readers as the Bar of Ireland, on which a long series of masterly articles is giving. Perhaps, however, I am ungrateful in making this allusion, for I half suspect that the qualified approbation of the subject has been employed as a kind substitution for complaint of the manner in which it is treated.

“When I find leisure, I shall try my fortune once more in an article; for I have a great desire to appear again in the pages of a work in which I wrote largely in the first days of my authorship—when the Maga-
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zine was very inferior to what it is now, and when I, perhaps, was less stupid—meanwhile believe me,

“With many thanks for your polite attention,

“Yours faithfully,
“T. N. Talfourd.”
“C. Redding, Esq.”