Part 16 (1/2)

The rest of the letter was taken up in the final details of a charity in which Lady Byron had been engaged withan unfortunate artist It concludes thus:--

'I write now in all haste, en route for Paris As to America, all is not lost yet {168} Farewell! I love you,I cannot easily express God bless you!

'H B S'

The next letter is as follows:--

'Paris, Dec 17, 1856

'DEAR LADY BYRON,--The Kansas Co ratitude for the five pounds she sent them I am not personally acquainted with her, and h you

'I wrote you a day or two since, enclosing the reply of the Kansas Committee to you

'On that subject on which you spoke to ht often and deeply

'I have changedthe peculiar circumstances of the case, I could wish that the sacred veil of silence, so bravely thrown over the past, should never be withdrawn during the time that you remain with us

'I would say, then, Leave all with some discreet friends, who, after both have passed from earth, shall say as due to justice

'I a ho unjust, hoorthy, the judgments of this world are; and I would not that what I so much respect, love, and revere should be placed within reach of its harpy clahich pollutes what it touches

'The day will yet co

”There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be known;” and so justice will not fail

'Such, hts; different froe, sad history Meanwhile, I love you ever, whether we ain on earth or not

'Affectionately yours,

'H B S'

The following letter will here be inserted as confir a part of Lady Byron's story:--

TO THE EDITOR OF 'MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE'

'SIR,--I trust that you will hold me excused from any desire to be troublesos are far fro for its object the vindication of Lord Byron's character, and the subsequent appearance in your azine of Mrs Stowe's article in defence of Lady Byron, having led to so much controversy in the various newspapers of the day, I feel constrained to put in a feords a the rest

'My father was intimately acquainted with Lady Byron's fa, in fact, steward to Sir Ralph Milbanke at Seahae took place; and, from all my recollections of what he told me of the affair (and he used often to talk of it, up to the tiree with Mrs Stowe's view of the case, and desire to add my humble testimony to the truth of what she has stated

'Whilst Byron was staying at Seahae, he spentthe hall, oftenwith him to load for hi-cere-roorounds, where he alking in his usual surly e in Yorkshi+re, a distance of about forty miles; to which place ly of Lady Byron's apparent distress during and at the end of the journey

'The insulting wordsthe park at Seaha a book, for the rest of the journey At Halnaby, a number of persons, tenants and others, were met to cheer thehtest notice, but ju his bride to alight by herself She shook hands with ed that he would see that some refreshment was supplied to those who had thus come to welcome them