“I beg leave to return my best thanks for the prints you were kind enough to send me, and also for the ‘Literary Gazette.’ The account of Mrs. Jordan’s memoirs appears to be done with considerable delicacy, and I have no doubt has given satisfaction where anxiety may have existed.
“In talking the other morning on the subject of Lord Byron, I may have misled you respecting his introduction to the House of Peers. A peer by descent, after receiving his writ, takes the oaths at the table of the House of Lords without any introduction. A peer newly created is introduced by two peers of his own rank.
“Lord Byron was misinformed in conceiving that Lord Carlisle ought to have introduced him. He also, I believe, took some offence at being referred to the Heraldic College for the proof of his pedigree prior to the issuing of the writ; but there was, I am convinced, no intention whatever of treating him slightingly.
“Thinking that I was not quite accurate the other day, I have troubled you with this explanation.
