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Astarte: a Fragment of Truth
Lady Byron to Lord Byron, 10 December 1820
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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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Kirkby
Decer 10th 1820

When you first expressed the wish respecting Mrs Leigh, which is repeated in your last letter of Octtr 8th I deter-

1 In 1814 Lord Byron used to talk to Lady Melbourne of her niece Anne Isabella Milbanke as “your A,” of Augusta Leigh as “my A”—and sometimes referred to “the two A’s.”

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mined to act consistently with it. If the assurance of that intention would conduce,—(as you state in a former letter, & as appears from your reiterated requests)—to calm your mind, I will not withhold it. The past shall not prevent me from befriending Augusta Leigh & her Children in any future circumstances which may call for my assistance—I promise to do so.—She knows nothing of this——