I think it very likely that J. Hobhouse will publish, and I know he has written some notes for the fourth canto of “Childe Harold,” which is to be published this winter. Did I tell you that he is to receive no less than £2,500 for this single poem? He insisted on that sum.
He (Lord Byron) has written some curious letters, which I have seen, among others a singular admission that upon looking into the older poets, especially Pope, and comparing them with himself, and the other fashionable moderns, he is struck with a great sense of inferiority.
