Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, London, to Lady Anne Isabella Byron, [no address], 3 May [1854].

[f. 49r]

London

30 Russell Square

3d May

Madam,

        It mortifies me to find that instead of rendering you any assistance, I shall but have given you trouble and raised expectations which have proved idle. I am so well aware that it is hardly possible to give sufficient information by letter on so important a matter as the selection of a tutor, that I should not have named my friend Paynter to your ladyship had I not expected that he might have been able to call on you at Brighton

       This expectation has been frustrated by the encrease of his malady – He is now about to leave England – And my apprehensions have become very serious –

      I hope to see him for an hour or two at the utmost – You will not trouble yourself to return the accompanying or any other of his letters –. It is singular, that I have this morning received from Miss Julia Smiths friend Mrs Clarkson, a few lines scrawled with difficulty from Paralysis – she is the oldest of my friends –

            I have the honor to be

                       &c &c &c

                                                H. C. Robinson 

The Lady Noel Byron

Text:  MS-DEP Lovelace-Byron 109, fol. 49, Bodleian Library, Oxford.