Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding John Cam Hobhouse's offence at his MS Memoirs: "Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to himself [John Cam Hobhouse]? ... If there were any ... even that would not sanction the tone of his letter, which I showed to one or two English & Irish friends of mine here -- who were perfectly astonished ..."