h we witnessed
together.]

* * * * *

TO MR. MOORE.

"Sunday matin.

"Was not Iago perfection? particularly the last look. I was _close_
to him (in the orchestra), and never saw an English countenance
half so expressive.

"I am acquainted with no _im_material sensuality so delightful as
good acting; and, as it is fitting there should be good plays, now
and then, besides Shakspeare's, I wish you or Campbell would write
one:--the rest of 'us youth' have not heart enough.

"You were cut up in the Champion--is it not so? this day so am
I--even to _shocking_ the editor. The critic writes well; and as,
at present, poesy is not my passion predominant, and my snake of
Aaron has swallowed up all the other serpents, I don't feel
fractious. I send you the paper, which I mean to take in for the
future. We go to M.'s together. Perhaps I shall see you before, but
don't let me _bore_ you, now nor ever.

"Ever, as now, truly and affectionately," &c.

* * * * *

TO MR. MOORE.

"May 5. 1814.

"Do you go to the Lady Cahir's this even? If you do--and whenever
we are bound to the same follies--let us embark in the same 'Shippe
of Fooles.' I have been up till five, and up at nine; and feel
heavy with only winking for the last three or four nights.

"I lost my party and place at supper trying to keep out of the way
of * * * *. I would have gone away altogether, but that would have
appeared a worse affectation than t'other. You are of course
engaged to dinner, or we may go quietly together to my box at
Covent Garden, and afterwards to this assemblage. Why did you go
away so soon?

"Ever, &c.

"P.S. _Ought not_ R * * * fe's supper to have been a dinner?
Jackson is here, and I must fatigue myself into spirits."

* * * * *

TO MR. MOORE.

"May 18. 1814.

"Thanks--and punctuality. _What_ has passed at * * * *s House? I
suppose that _I_ am to know, and 'pars fui' of the conference. I
regret that your * * * *s will detain you so late, but I suppose
you will be at Lady Jersey's. I am going earlier with Hobhouse. You
recollect that to-morrow we sup and see Kean.

"P.S. _Two_ to-morrow is the hour of pugilism."

* * * * *