: Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Stowe Harriet Beecher - Poets English 19th century Biography; Byron Anne Isabella (Milbanke) Byron Baroness 1792-1860; Byron George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 Marriage; Authors' spouses Great B

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Ada is now in her fifth year--a child of singular sensibility and remarkable mental powers--one of those exceptional children who are so perilous a charge for a mother.

Her husband proposes this artful snare to her,--that she shall mark what is false in a statement which is all built on a damning lie, that she cannot refute over that daughter's head,--and which would perhaps be her ruin to discuss.

Hence came an addition of two more documents, to be used 'privately among friends,' and which 'Blackwood' uses after Lady Byron is safely out of the world to cast ignominy on her grave--the wife's letter, that of a mother standing at bay for her daughter, knowing that she is dealing with a desperate, powerful, unscrupulous enemy.

'KIRKBY MALLORY: March 10, 1820.

'A. BYRON.

'To Lord Byron.'

Lord Byron, writing for the public, as is his custom, makes reply:--

'RAVENNA: April 3, 1820.

'I received yesterday your answer, dated March 10. My offer was an honest one, and surely could only be construed as such even by the most malignant casuistry. I could answer you, but it is too late, and it is not worth while. To the mysterious menace of the last sentence, whatever its import may be--and I cannot pretend to unriddle it--I could hardly be very sensible even if I understood it, as, before it can take place, I shall be where "nothing can touch him further".... I advise you, however, to anticipate the period of your intention, for, be assured, no power of figures can avail beyond the present; and if it could, I would answer with the Florentine:--

'"Ed io, che posto son con loro in croce ... e certo La fiera moglie, pi? ch' altro, mi nuoce."

'BYRON.

'To Lady Byron.'

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