Then might they not have announced her Life and Letters, that the public might have the same opportunity as themselves for knowing and judging Lady Byron by her own writings?
Had this been done, I had been most happy to have remained silent.

I have been astonished that any one should have supposed this speaking on my part to be anything less than it is,--the severest act of self-sacrifice that one friend can perform for another, and the most solemn and difficult tribute to justice that a human being can be called upon to render.
I have been informed that the course I have taken would be contrary to the wishes of my friend.

I think otherwise.

I know her strong sense of justice, and her reverence for truth.

Nothing ever moved her to speak to the public but an attack upon the honour of the dead.