This shows that a copy of Lady Milbanke's letter had been preserved, and makes it appear probable that copies of the whole correspondence of that period were also kept.

Great light could be thrown on the whole transaction, could these documents be consulted.
{190b} Here, again, Lady Byron's sealed papers might furnish light.

The letters addressed to her at this time by those in constant intercourse with Lord Byron are doubtless preserved, and would show her ground of action.
{192} Probably Lady Milbanke's letters are among the sealed papers, and would more fully explain the situation.
{205a} Hunt's Byron, p.77.Philadelphia, 1828.
{205b} From the Temple Bar article, October 1869.

'Mrs.Leigh, Lord Byron's sister, had other thoughts of Mrs.Clermont, and wrote to her offering public testimony to her tenderness and forbearance under circumstances which must have been trying to any friend of Lady Byron.'-- Campbell, in the New Monthly Magazine, 183O, p.38O.
{219} 'My Recollections,' p.238.
{225} Vol.vi.

p.242.
{227} The reader is here referred to the remarks of 'Blackwood' on 'Don Juan' in Part III.
{258} The article in question is worth a careful reading.