not a happy man.  He enquired earnestly what reason I had for thinking so, and I asked him if he had never observed in little children, after a paroxysm of grief, that they had at intervals a convulsive or tremulous manner of drawing in a long breath.  Wherever I had observed this, in persons of whatever age, I had always found that it came from sorrow.  He said the thought was new to him, and that he would make use of it.

“Lord Byron, and all the party, left Villa Rossa (the name of their house) in a few days, to pack up their things in their house at Pisa.  He told me that he should remain a few days there, and desired me, if I could do any thing more to the pictures, to come and stay with him.  He seemed at a loss where to go, and was, I thought, on the point of embarking for America.  I was with him at Pisa for a few days; but he was so annoyed by the police, and the weather was so hot, that I thought it doubtful whether I could improve the pictures, and, taking my departure one morning before he was up, I wrote him an excuse from Leghorn.  Upon the whole, I left him with an impression that he possessed an excellent heart, which had been misconstrued on all hands from little else than a reckless levity of manners, which he took a whimsical pride in opposing to those of other people.”

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LETTER 499.  TO MR. MURRAY.

     “Pisa, July 6. 1822.

“I return you the revise.  I have softened the part to which Gifford objected, and changed the name of Michael to Raphael, who was an angel of gentler sympathies.  By the way, recollect to alter Michael to Raphael in the scene itself throughout, for I have only had time to do so in the list of the dramatis personae, and scratch out all the pencil-marks, to avoid puzzling the printers.  I have given the ‘Vision of Quevedo Redivivus’ to John Hunt, which will relieve you from a dilemma.  He must publish it at his own risk, as it is at his own desire.  Give him the corrected copy which Mr. Kinnaird had, as it is mitigated partly, and also the preface.

     “Yours,” &c.

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LETTER 500.  TO MR. MURRAY.

     “Pisa, July 8. 1822.

     “Last week I returned you the packet of proofs.  You had, perhaps,
     better not publish in the same volume the Po and Rimini
     translation.

“I have consigned a letter to Mr. John Hunt for the ’Vision of Judgment,’ which you will hand over to him.  Also the ‘Pulci,’ original and Italian, and any prose tracts of mine; for Mr. Leigh Hunt is arrived here, and thinks of commencing a periodical work, to which I shall contribute.  I do not propose to you to be the publisher, because I know that you are unfriends; but all things in your care,