My answer has been that the proposal has been made, but civilly declined.

I had also informed the members of the church at Westminster (after your first letter) that I could not grant the favour asked.

I cannot, therefore, answer now that the case will not be mentioned (as it has happened) by some person or other who knows it.
The best thing to be done, however, by the executors and relatives, is to carry away the body, and say as little about it as possible.

Unless the subject is provoked by some injudicious parade about the remains, perhaps the matter will draw little or no notice.
Yours very truly, J.IRELAND, The death of Byron brought into immediate prominence the question of his autobiographical memoirs, the MS.

of which he had given to Moore, who was at that time his guest at La Mira, near Venice, in 1819.
"A short time before dinner," wrote Moore, "he left the room, and in a minute or two returned carrying in his hand a white-leather bag.