If therefore I said anything I ought not, pardon it--it was not intended; and let me entreat you to remember a maxim I have found very useful to me, that there is nothing in this life worth quarrelling about, and that half the people we are offended with never intended to give us cause.
Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interesting.

I think you will relent and send me "Childe Harold" before any one has it--this is the first time you have not done so--and the _Quarterly Review_; and pray also any other book that is curious....

I quite pine to see the _Quarterly Review_ and "Childe Harold." Have mercy and send them, or I shall gallop to town to see you.

Is 450 guineas too dear for a new barouche?
If you know this let me know, as we of the country know nothing.
Yours sincerely, C.L.
In sending home the MS.

of the first act of "Manfred," Lord Byron wrote, giving but unsatisfactory accounts of his own health.