[cross-reference: return to Footnote 1 of Letter 97]
[11 — To the Hon. Augusta Byron]
Burgage Manor, August 18th, 1804.
My Dearest Augusta,
— I seize this interval of my
amiable
mother's absence this afternoon, again to inform you, or rather to desire to be informed by you, of what is going on. For my own part I can send nothing to amuse you, excepting a repetition of my complaints against my tormentor, whose
diabolical