"Thursday Morning.
"My dear Lord Byron,
"I hear this morning that the design, which certainly had been in
contemplation, of burning my fellow-serpent, has been abandoned,
and that he has been condemned to the galleys. Lord Guilford is at
Leghorn; and as your courier applied to me to know whether he ought
to leave your letter for him or not, I have thought it best since
this information to tell him to take it back.
"Ever faithfully yours,
"P.B. SHELLEY."
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