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Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, September 15th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 243-6; QI 56-7; BLJ I 223-4)
Constance Spencer Smith, wife of British diplomat and politician John Spencer Smith. Lord Byron…

"Conceiving a promise always to be sacred I never forgot the conversation you had with me last year on the 16th. of Sept."

"Capitaine Ferguson tells me that he will perhaps touch Athens, in that case I hope he will bring me a letter of yours as he said you did mean to write to me before."

"In order to have nothing to reproch myself I write another letter having some reason to suppose the first was lost."