I send you six volumes of Lord Byron’s MSS. and some loose sheets. Three more volumes, the remainder, shall be forwarded to you, as you will point out to me. I trust that you will feel strongly the propriety of not allowing a single individual—always excepting Mrs. Moore—to have the power of saying that he has seen these volumes. The reason must be perfectly obvious on the face of it, and it could not fail of operating most injuriously to your work. I must beg that you will return these volumes to me in exactly the same state in which they are now sent to you, and that anything which, for any reason, you do not consider of use for the memoirs you will not use in any way. I hope these conditions are not unreasonable; and so success attend your efforts.
