I have received your letter requesting me to assign to you
exclusively the right of printing Lord
Byron’s works in France. In answer I shall state what you
do not seem to be aware of, that for the copyright of these works you are
printing for nothing, I have given the author upwards of £10,000.
Lord Byron has sent me the assignment, regularly made,
and dated April 20, 1818; and if you will send me £250 I will make it over
to you. I have just received a Tragedy by Lord Byron, for
the copyright of which I have paid £1050, and also three new cantos of
Don Juan, for which I have
paid £2100. What can you
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