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Astarte: a Fragment of Truth
Mary Anne Clermont to Lord Byron, 9 April 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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April 9, 1816.
My Lord,—

In consequence of an attempt which your Lordship has made to injure my character, I take the liberty of requesting to be made acquainted with the grounds on which I am accused of

1 Annabella (Lady Byron).

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being a false witness and those other charges which you are pleased to alledge against me. If favoured with this information, I have no doubt of being able to prove in the most satisfactory manner that such accusations are wholly unfounded. I have hitherto, my Lord, said very little, nor could I have deemed myself of sufficient importance to have any weight in the scale of public opinion where your Lordship was concerned, had you not yourself attached importance to what you call falsehoods devised by me. The little I have said is strictly true, and what more I may be compelled to say, shall be equally so, and my name will always be added to whatever I may write hereafter, as it has been to whatever I have written heretofore.1

I am, my Lord,
Your Lordship’s
Obedient humble servt.
M. A. Clermont.