"We are," Lady Dacre wrote to Murray (December 1823), "to have the whole of Foscolo's duel to-morrow.

He tells me that it is not about a 'Fair lady': thank heaven!" Foscolo was one of Mr.Murray's inveterate correspondents--about lectures, about translations, about buildings, about debts, about loans, and about borrowings.

On one occasion Mr.Murray received from him a letter of thirteen pages quarto.

A few sentences of this may be worth quoting: _Mr.Foscolo to John Murray_.
SOUTH BANK, _August_ 20, 1822.
"During six years (for I landed in England the 10th September, 1816) I have constantly laboured under difficulties the most distressing; no one knows them so well as yourself, because no one came to my assistance with so warm a friendship or with cares so constant and delicate.

My difficulties have become more perplexing since the Government both of the Ionian Islands and Italy have precluded even the possibility of my returning to the countries where a slender income would be sufficient, and where I would not be under the necessity of making a degrading use of my faculties.