307—to the Hon. Augusta Leigh
[June, 1813.]
My Dearest Augusta
,—And if you knew
whom
I had put off besides my journey—you would think me grown strangely fraternal. However I won't overwhelm you with my
own praises
.
Between one and two be it—I shall, in course, prefer seeing you all to myself without the incumbrance of third persons,
even
of
your
(for I won't own the relationship) fair cousin of
eleven page
memory
, who, by the bye, makes one of the finest busts I have seen in the Exhibition, or out of it. Good night!
Ever yours,
Byron
.
P. S.—Your writing is grown like my Attorney's, and gave me a qualm, till I found the remedy in your signature.
Footnote 1:
Letters
, vol. i. p. 54 [end of Footnote 3 of Letter 13.], Lady Gertrude Howard married, in 1806, William Sloane Stanley, and died in 1870.
