49 — To John Hanson

Sir

, — As in all probability you will not make your appearance tomorrow I must disclose by Letter the Business I intended to have discussed at our interview. — We know each other sufficiently to render Apology unnecessary. I shall therefore without further Prelude proceed to the Subject in Question. You are not ignorant, that I have lately lived at considerable Expence, to support which my allotted Income by the

sapient

Court of Chancery is inadequate. — I confess I have borrowed a trifling sum and now wish to raise £500 to discharge some Debts I have contracted; my approaching Quarter will bring me £200 due from my Allowance, and if you can procure me the other £300 at a moderate Interest, it will save 100 per cent I must pay my

Israelite

for the same purpose. — You see by this I have an

excellent

Idea of Œconomy even in my Extravagance by being willing to pay as little Money as possible, for the Cash must be disbursed

somewhere

or

somehow

, and if you decline (as in prudence I tell you fairly you ought), the

Tribe

of

Levi

will be my

dernier resort

. However I thought proper to make this Experiment with very slender hopes of success indeed, since Recourse to the

Law

is at best a

desperate

effort. I have now laid open my affairs to you without Disguise and Stated the Facts as they appear, declining all Comments, or the use of any Sophistry to palliate my application, or urge my request. All I desire is a speedy Answer, whether successful or not.

Believe me, yours truly,

Byron

.