, such as it is, is my first

entire

composition of any length (except the Satire, and be damned to it), for

The Giaour

is but a string of passages, and

Childe Harold

is, and I rather think always will be, unconcluded. I return Mr. Hay's note, with thanks to him and you.

There

[have]

been some epigrams on Mr. W[ard]: one I see to-day