has, I believe, agreed to illustrate your book

[1]

, and I fancy one of the engravings will be from the pretty little girl

[2]

you saw the other day, though without her name, and merely as a model for some sketch connected with the subject. I would also have the portrait (which you saw to-day) of the friend who is mentioned in the text at the close of Canto 1st, and in the notes,—which are subjects sufficient to authorise that addition.

Believe me, yours truly, B'N.


[Footnote 1:]

An edition of the first two cantos of

Childe Harold