Your bedroom shall be ready, and you can be back in Town before most people are up, though I rise here at seven.
Yours quite disturbed my mind, for want of your telling me how he [Byron] looks, what he says, if he is grown fat, if he is no uglier than he used to be, if he is good-humoured or cross-grained, putting his brows down--if his hair curls or is straight as somebody said, if he has seen Hobhouse, if he is going to stay long, if you went to Dover as you intended, and a great deal more, which, if you had the smallest tact or aught else, you would have written long ago; for as to me, I shall certainly not see him, neither do I care he should know that I ever asked after him.

It is from mere curiosity I should like to hear all you can tell me about him.

Pray come here immediately.
Yours, C.L.
Notwithstanding the remarkable sale of "Don Juan," Murray hesitated about publishing any more of the cantos.

After the fifth canto was published, Lord Byron informed Murray that it was "hardly the beginning of the work," that he intended to take Don Juan through the tour of Europe, put him through the Divorce Court, and make him finish as Anacharsis Clootz in the French Revolution.

Besides being influenced by his own feelings, it is possible that the following letter of Mr.Croker may have induced Mr.Murray to have nothing further to do with the work: _Mr.Croker to John Murray_.
MUNSTER HOUSE, _March_ 26, 1820.
_A rainy Sunday_.
DEAR MURRAY, I have to thank you for letting me see your two new cantos [the 3rd and 4th], which I return.