64 — To Captain John Leacroft
February 4th, 1807.
Sir, — I am concerned to be obliged again to trouble you, as I had hoped that our conversations had terminated amicably. Your good Father, it seems, has desired otherwise; he has just sent a most
agreeable
epistle, in which I am honoured with the appellations of
unfeeling
and ungrateful. But as the consequences of all this must ultimately fall on you and myself, I merely write this to apprise you that the dispute is not of my seeking, and that, if we must cut each other's throats to please our relations, you will do me the justice to say it is from no
personal
animosity between us, or from any insult on my part, that such
disagreeable
events (for I am not so much enamoured of quarrels as to call them
pleasant
) have arisen.
I remain, your's, etc.,
Byron
.
