[Footnote: For Byron's reply to this letter, see Moore's Memoirs, iii.

115.] Moore received the continuation of Lord Byron's Memoirs on December 26, 1820, the postage amounting to forty-six francs and a half.

"He advises me," said Moore in his Diary, "to dispose of the reversion of the MS.
now." Accordingly, Moore, being then involved in pecuniary responsibilities by the defalcations of his deputy in Bermuda, endeavoured to dispose of the "Memoirs of Lord Byron." He first wrote to the Messrs.

Longman, who did not offer him enough; and then to Mr.
Murray, who offered him the sum of 2,000 guineas, on condition that he should be the editor of the Memoirs, and write the Life of Lord Byron.
_John Murray to Lord Byron_.

_July_ 24, 1821.
Dear Lord Byron, I have just received a letter from Mr.Moore--the subject of it is every way worthy of your usual liberality--and I had not a moment's hesitation in acceding to a proposal which enabled me in any way to join in assisting so excellent a fellow.