They conversed together for nearly two hours.

There were present, at different times, Mr.William Gifford, James Boswell (son of the biographer of Johnson), William Sotheby, Robert Wilmot, Richard Heber, and Mr.Dusgate." Mr.Murray's son--then John Murray, Junior--gives his recollections as follows: "I can recollect seeing Lord Byron in Albemarle Street.

So far as I can remember, he appeared to me rather a short man, with a handsome countenance, remarkable for the fine blue veins which ran over his pale, marble temples.

He wore many rings on his fingers, and a brooch in his shirt-front, which was embroidered.

When he called, he used to be dressed in a black dress-coat (as we should now call it), with grey, and sometimes nankeen trousers, his shirt open at the neck.