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was her envoy; – I did make the advance – and now they are trying again. – I will allot a portion
according to our net receipts for the gradual extinction of the just claims – Baxter’s as a bond debt is
first – & the whole or a portion should be liquidated this year. – Also a portion of {each} of the others
– I mean those you stated – & not the new Jews – – – –
As I have more money here than is actually required – if you will invest a thousand pounds for me in
Exchequer bills or on other low but safe and easily re=convertible in to Cash Security I will return you
Circulars for the amount. – Your letter of Credit I shall not use except in case of some unexpected
emergency. – I have still at
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3 d .) the present writing two thousand seven hundred pounds of your Notes in my hands – and six
hundred and thirty pounds in bank at M r . Webb’s Leghorn. Thus – if our receipts (including what I
have saved i.e. three thousand three hundred pounds) be nine thousand pounds for the ensuing year –
adding the income of this I can pay off debt to the am[Ms. tear: “o”]unt of two thousand – spend
twelve or [Ms. tear: “fourteen”] hundred – (I hope less) and save the rest – and invest it as it arrives in
Exchequer bills at interest. – You see that neither the Rochdale tolls – nor Werner – nor the D. J.s are
included in this estimate. – I am particularly anxious that you should begin immediately to invest some
of my monies – the interest however trifling – would be something – and the bond debt is my only debt
bearing interest –
3:2 [above address:] and can be reduced or liquidated in the course of the year. – Of course the
insurances are first to be considered – carry them up to twenty thousand or twenty five thousand. – And
pray [below address:] do what you can with Deardon – I am ready to refer the affair to Arbitration – or
settle it on amicable terms without – as soon as I know the real state of the case.
y rs . ever & truly
N. B. –
1823: Lord and Lady Blessington, together with Count D’Orsay, visit Genoa, from April 1st to June
2nd. Byron is elected a member of the London Greek Committee, and agrees to go to Greece to
investigate the situation there and to help negotiate the Greek loan. He departs for Greece on July
16th, arriving in Cephalonia on August 3rd. On August 11th he visits Ithaca. He remains on
Cephalonia until December 29th, when he sails for Messolonghi.
January 1st 1823: Heaven and Earth published in The Liberal No 2, and a corrected text of The
Vision of Judgement published in a second edition of The Liberal No 1.
Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, from Genoa, January 1st 1823:
(Source: Ms. NLS TD 3079, f.45; not in 1922 II; BLJ X 75-6)
[To, The Honourable Douglas Kinnaird. / Messrs Ransom & C o . Bankers. / Pall Mall. / London. /
Angleterre. // Inghilterra.]
A single sheet.
P.S. – I have written to
you lately a good deal
on business – which I hope arrived safely. –
Genoa. J y . 1 o . 1823.
My dear Douglas –
The enclosed letter from M r . Hanson – with the Counsel’s opinion which it contains
is for serious consideration. – The business must, I doubt, go before the Chancellor. – Of course you
conceal nothing from me – but it is strange that you have never lately even alluded to Crabtree –
although your letters before y r . accident were full of him and his promised report – and promising
statement – neither of which have appeared. – – May I hope that we can settle with Deardon – I am
willing to go to Arbitration – (Burdett being mine if he accept – or if not – Sir William Grant – the
once Master of the rolls) or by some arrangement so as to unite the manor and collieries – in
partnership
1:2 [above address:] with M r Deardon – (on proper guarantees) and work over or rather under the
whole – after a proper survey. – – It was surveyed some years ago – & favourably [below address:]