“I see all the papers in a sad commotion with those eight lines; and the Morning Post, in particular, has found out that I am a sort of Richard III.,—deformed in mind and body. The last piece of information is not very new to a man who passed five years at a public school.
“I am very sorry you cut out those lines for Childe Harold. Pray reinsert them in their old place in ‘The Corsair.’”