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The next letter is as follows:--

'Paris, Dec. 17, 1856.

'DEAR LADY BYRON,--The Kansas Committee have written me a letter
desiring me to express to Miss ---- their gratitude for the five
pounds she sent them. I am not personally acquainted with her, and
must return these acknowledgments through you.

'I wrote you a day or two since, enclosing the reply of the Kansas
Committee to you.

'On that subject on which you spoke to me the last time we were
together, I have thought often and deeply.

'I have changed my mind somewhat. Considering the peculiar
circumstances of the case, I could wish that the sacred veil of
silence, so bravely thrown over the past, should never be withdrawn
during the time that you remain with us.

'I would say, then, Leave all with some discreet friends, who, after
both have passed from earth, shall say what was due to justice.

'I am led to think this by seeing how low, how unjust, how unworthy,
the judgments of this world are; and I would not that what I so much
respect, love, and revere should be placed within reach of its harpy
claw, which pollutes what it touches.

'The day will yet come which will bring to light every hidden thing.
"There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither hid that
shall not be known;" and so justice will not fail.

'Such, my dear friend, are my thoughts; different from what they were
since first I heard that strange, sad history. Meanwhile, I love you
ever, whether we meet again on earth or not.

'Affectionately yours,

'H. B. S.'

The following letter will here be inserted as confirming a part of Lady
Byron's story:--

TO THE EDITOR OF 'MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE.'

'SIR,--I trust that you will hold me excused from any desire to be
troublesome, or to rush into print. Both these things are far from my
wish. But the publication of a book having for its object the
vindication of Lord Byron's character, and the subsequent appearance
in your magazine of Mrs. Stowe's article in defence of Lady Byron,
having led to so much controversy in the various newspapers of the
day, I feel constrained to put in a few words among the rest.

'My father was intimately acquainted with Lady Byron's family for many
years, both before an