Letters & Journals of Lord Byron (Volume 1); With Notices of His Life

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Excerpt: ... 'call them, though two of them are wholly English, 'and the rest half so), but nothing can or could ever 'persuade me, since I was the first ten minutes in 'your company, that you are not the man. To me 'those novels have so much of Auld lang syne (I 'was bred a canny Scot till ten years old) that I never 'move without them; and when I removed from Ra'venna to Pisa the other day, and sent on my library 'before, they were the only books that I kept by me, 'although I already have them by heart. 'January 27th, 1822. 'I delayed till now concluding, in the hope that I 'should have got the Pirate, who is under way for 'me, but has not yet hove in sight. I hear that your 'daughter is married, and I suppose by this time you 'are half a grandfather--a young one, by the way. I 'have heard great things of Mrs. Lockhart's personal 'and mental charms, and much good of her lord: 'that you may live to see as many novel Scotts as there are Scots' novels, is the very bad pun, but sin'cere wish of 'Yours ever most affectionately, &c. 'P.S. Why don't you take a turn in Italy? You 'would find yourself as well known and as wel'come as in the Highlands among the natives. As 'for the English, you would be with them as in Lon'don; and I need not add, that I should be delighted to see you again, which is far more than I shall ever 'feel or say for England, or (with a few exceptions ' of kith, kin, and allies) any thing that it contains. 'But my heart warms to the tartan, or to any 'thing of Scotland, which reminds me of Aberdeen 'and other parts, not so far from the Highlands as 'that town, about Invercauld and Braemar, where I 'was sent to drink goat's fey in 1795-6, in conse * quence of a threatened decline after the scarlet 'fever. But I am gossiping, so, good night--and 'the ...