Seaham Hall (October 23 1814)
‘I do trust that this letter will return to visit you here, but I want to communicate so much that I must for a few minutes fancy it is not in vain to write.
Of our meeting – I have no doubt that we shall prove admirable philosophers on that as well as former occasions when we have been so successfully indifferent…
I never like to MAKE scenes even on the most favourable opportunities – when a “Heroine” would say and do most, I generally say and do least.
I cannot say how kind Mrs. Leigh has been to me – it will not be forgotten.
O for tomorrow’s post! I walk to meet it every day and sit in the blacksmith’s cottage till it arrives.
A woman came in also a few days ago, and not knowing me, began to enquire about the “bonny lad” who was to tak awa the “canny hinny.”‘
Sources Used:
The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron Ethel Colburn Mayne (London: Constable & Co Ltd 1929)
