“P.S.  The expense of engraving from the miniature send me in my
     account, as it was destroyed by my desire; and have the goodness to
     burn that detestable print from it immediately.

     “To make you some amends for eternally pestering you with
     alterations, I send you Cobbett to confirm your orthodoxy.

     “One more alteration of a into the in the MS.; it must be—­’The
     heart whose softness,’ &c.

     “Remember—­and in the inscription, ’To the Right Honourable Lord
     Holland,’ without the previous names, Henry,” &c.

* * * * *

TO MR. MURRAY.

     “November 20. 1813.

     “More work for the Row.  I am doing my best to beat ’The
     Giaour’—­no difficult task for any one but the author.”

* * * * *

TO MR. MURRAY.

     “November 22. 1813.

“I have no time to cross-investigate, but I believe and hope all is right.  I care less than you will believe about its success, but I can’t survive a single misprint:  it chokes me to see words misused by the printers.  Pray look over, in case of some eyesore escaping me.

     “P.S.  Send the earliest copies to Mr. Frere, Mr. Canning, Mr. Heber,
     Mr. Gifford, Lord Holland, Lord Melbourne (Whitehall), Lady
     Caroline Lamb, (Brocket), Mr. Hodgson (Cambridge), Mr. Merivale,
     Mr. Ward, from the author.”

* * * * *

TO MR. MURRAY.

     “November 23. 1813.

“You wanted some reflections, and I send you per Selim (see his speech in Canto 2d, page 46.), eighteen lines in decent couplets, of a pensive, if not an ethical tendency.  One more revise—­positively the last, if decently done—­at any rate the penultimate.  Mr. Canning’s approbation (if he did approve) I need not say makes me proud.[110] As to printing, print as you will and how you will—­by itself, if you like; but let me have a few copies in sheets.

     “November 24. 1813.

     “You must pardon me once more, as it is all for your good:  it must
     be thus—­

        “He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.

     ‘Makes’ is closer to the passage of Tacitus, from which the line
     is taken, and is, besides, a stronger word than ‘leaves’

        “Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease—­
        He makes a solitude, and calls it—­peace.”

[Footnote 110:  Mr. Canning’s note was as follows:—­“I received the books, and, among them, The Bride of Abydos.  It is very, very beautiful.  Lord Byron (when I met him, one day, at dinner at Mr. Ward’s) was so kind as to promise to give me a copy of it.  I mention this, not to save my purchase, but because I should be really flattered by the present.”]