Leigh Hunt letter to John Hunt, October 26, 1822

              Genoa--Oct. 26. 1822. 
My dear John,  
Lord Byron had nothing further to say to you on Murray's business. I thought he might alter his mind a little perhaps in a day or two, but he did not, & wishes the paragraph still to appear, leaving it /however/ nevertheless as before to your own judgment. However, I could not but write to you again, to thank you once more for your last letter, particularly the private part of it, & to say again how pleased we both are with your public doings. When you write again, I also wish that you would let me know precisely what you think our arrangements should be with regard to both Magazine[1] & Examiner, & /how you/ what sort of accommodation you think might take place /bet/ with your interests & mine in both works. If I cannot discharge all my duty in the paper (which I am sure would be impossible, & had better, at once, not be attempted) I should wish to make it up to you out of the magazine: but you know so much better what to do in these matters than I, that I wish you to speak first, & solely on that account. I always fear, that even when I intend to be liberal, I shall make some ridculous [sic] blunder. Pray therefore speak plainly, & propose for yourself all the good you ought. It cannot be more than I wish you.  
Poor Murray is indeed in a deplorable state, and one should pity him, as you are inclined to do, if he were not so profoundly servile. What do you think? He writes to Lord B. [Byron] how delighted he should be, if his  
[Continued on front from Page 4]  P.S. I owe a small bill to Taylor & Hessey, the main part of which is owing to my having mislaid one of a set of books which I borrowed of them: but it is not above 2 or 3 pounds at most. There is a similar one owing to Whitmore & Ferris[?], of Charing Cross, perhaps something larger. I need not say how I long, with an infinite longing, to hear that I may be in a way of settling these things; but the one I long most of all to settle is the interest which that excellent man, Sir John Swinburne, has been paying for me for some money he borrowed in my behalf, to say nothing of the money itself. When I can write him a concluding letter of thanks, it will indeed be a bright day to me. Always recollect however, that you come before every body. You deserve it as much as he does, & need it much more.