“I have but a moment to write, but all is as it should be. I have said really far short of my opinion, but if you think enough, I am content. Will you return the proof by the post, as I leave town on Sunday, and have no other corrected copy. I put ‘servant,’ as being less familiar before the public; because I don’t like presuming upon our friendship
A. D. 1814. | LIFE OF LORD BYRON. | 519 |
I write in an agony of haste and confusion.—Perdonate.”