It is right to add, that I quote these slight details from memory, and am alone answerable for any inaccuracy there may be found in them.

[Footnote 62:  The Dream.]

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LETTER 208.  TO MR. MURRAY.

     “Kirkby, January 6. 1815.

     “The marriage took place on the 2d instant:  so pray make haste and
     congratulate away.

“Thanks for the Edinburgh Review and the abolition of the print.  Let the next be from the other of Phillips—­I mean (not the Albanian, but) the original one in the exhibition; the last was from the copy.  I should wish my sister and Lady Byron to decide upon the next, as they found fault with the last. I have no opinion of my own upon the subject.

“Mr. Kinnaird will, I dare say, have the goodness to furnish copies of the Melodies[63], if you state my wish upon the subject.  You may have them, if you think them worth inserting.  The volumes in their collected state must be inscribed to Mr. Hobhouse, but I have not yet mustered the expressions of my inscription; but will supply them in time.

     With many thanks for your good wishes, which have all been
     realised, I remain, very truly, yours,

     “BYRON.”

[Footnote 63:  The Hebrew Melodies which he had employed himself in writing, during his recent stay in London.]

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LETTER 209.  TO MR. MOORE.

     “Halnaby, Darlington, January 10, 1815.

“I was married this day week.  The parson has pronounced it—­Perry has announced it—­and the Morning Post, also, under the head of ’Lord Byron’s Marriage’—­as if it were a fabrication, or the puff-direct of a new stay-maker.

“Now for thine affairs.  I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well.  Positively, you must not leave off reviewing.  You shine in it—­you kill in it; and this article has been taken for Sydney Smith’s (as I heard in town), which proves not only your proficiency in parsonology, but that you have all the airs of a veteran critic at your first onset.  So, prithee, go on and prosper.

     “Scott’s ‘Lord of the Isles’ is out—­’the mail-coach copy’ I have,
     by special licence, of Murray.

“Now is your time;—­you will come upon them newly and freshly.  It is impossible to read what you have lately done (verse or prose) without seeing that you have trained on tenfold. * * has floundered; * * has foundered. I have tried the rascals (i.e. the public) with my Harrys and Larrys, Pilgrims and Pirates.  Nobody but S * * * y has done any thing worth a slice of bookseller’s pudding; and _he_ has not luck enough to be found out in doing a good thing.  Now, Tom, is thy time—­’Oh joyful day!—­I would not take a knighthood for thy fortune.  Let me hear from you soon, and believe me ever, &c.

     “P.S.  Lady Byron is vastly well.  How are Mrs. Moore and Joe
     Atkinson’s ‘Graces?’ We must present our women to one another.”