some to the late Rev. J.C. Tattersall, in the
hands of his brother (half-brother) Mr. Wheatley, who resides near
Canterbury, I think. There are some of Charles Gordon, now of
Dulwich; and some few to Mrs. Chaworth; but these latter are
probably destroyed or inaccessible.

"I mention these people and particulars merely as _chances_. Most
of them have probably destroyed the letters, which in fact are of
little import, many of them written when very young, and several at
school and college.

"Peel (the _second_ brother of the Secretary) was a correspondent
of mine, and also Porter, the son of the Bishop of Clogher; Lord
Clare a very voluminous one; William Harness (a friend of Milman's)
another; Charles Drummond (son of the banker); William Bankes (the
voyager), your friend: R.C. Dallas, Esq.; Hodgson; Henry Drury;
Hobhouse you were already aware of.

"I have gone through this long list[57] of

"'The cold, the faithless, and the dead,'

because I know that, like 'the curious in fish-sauce,' you are a
researcher of such things.

"Besides these, there are other occasional ones to literary men and
so forth, complimentary, &c. &c. &c. not worth much more than the
rest. There are some hundreds, too, of Italian notes of mine,
scribbled with a noble contempt of the grammar and dictionary, in
very English Etruscan; for I _speak_ Italian very fluently, but
write it carelessly and incorrectly to a degree."

[Footnote 56: He here adverts to a passing remark, in one of Mr.
Murray's letters, that, as his Lordship's "Memoranda" were not to be
published in his lifetime, the sum now paid for the work, 2100_l_. would
most probably, upon a reasonable calculation of survivorship, amount
ultimately to no less than 8000_l_.]

[Footnote 57: To all the persons upon this list who were accessible,
application has, of course, been made,--with what success it is in the
reader's power to judge from the communications that have been laid
before him. Among the companions of the poet's boyhood there are (as I
have already had occasion to mention and regret) but few traces of his
youthful correspondence to be found; and of all those who knew him at
that period, his fair Southwell correspondent alone seems to have been
sufficiently endowed with the gift of second-sight to anticipate the
Byron of a future day, and foresee the