"February 7. 1814.
"I see all the papers in a sad commotion with those eight lines;
and the Morning Post, in particular, has found out that I am a sort
of Richard III.--deformed in mind and _body_. The _last_ piece of
information is not very new to a man who passed five years at a
public school.
"I am very sorry you cut out those lines for Childe Harold. Pray
re-insert them in their old place in 'The Corsair.'"
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