I am much flattered by the compliment which you have paid to me in dedicating to me a beautiful edition of the works of my distinguished “school- and form-fellow.”
I was the next boy to Lord Byron at Harrow for three or four years, and was always on very friendly terms with him, though not living in particular intimacy out of school.
I do not recollect ever having a single angry word with him, or that there ever was any the slightest jealousy or coldness between us.
It is a gratification to me to have my name associated with his in the manner in which you have placed it in friendly connection; and I do not believe, if he could have foreseen, when we were boys together at school, this continuance of a sort of amicable relation between us after his death, the idea would have been otherwise than pleasing to him.
