Letter from Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

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line 1: 26th October
line 2: 3 Chesterfield St
line 3: Mayfair
line 4: Gentlemen
line 5: ...has an-
line 6: swered... against
line 7: his conduct in publishing as mine
line 8: an article from "the Times" which
line 9: I did not write, by throwing the
line 10: onus on you, for inserting
line 11: the passage indicated, in your
line 12: September Circular; quoting it as his authority.
line 13: I draw a very broad distinction
line 14: between his unfair dealing (even
line 15: supposing the article had been
line 16: mine) in seizing it, to convert it
line 17: into a contribution for his own
line 18: benefit, without leave or licence
line 19: asked or granted, --- and
line 20: the casual mention in your
line 21: Circular of my supposed authorship

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line 1: which no doubt was intended
line 2: as complimentary & is at all
line 3: events extremely courteous in
line 4: expression; to say nothing of
line 5: the (to me satisfactory) point
line 6: that it would not draw public
line 7: attention, as his publishing the
line 8: chapter with my name must
line 9: do; as it lies on every railway stall!
line 10: I have been urged – by almost
line 11: every friend I have, intimate
line 12: enough to write or speak on
line 13: the subject – to publish my
line 14: direct contradiction of the
line 15: assertion that I am the
line 16: author of the article in question.
line 17: I do not enter into the

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line 1: question of its merit, but it is
line 2: not mine; nor do I know who
line 3: wrote it. It expresses very strongly
line 4: a complete agreement with Mrs. Stowe's
line 5: article - an entire belief in Byron's
line 6: guilt - & is written in ignorance
line 7: of facts as narrated to me
line 8: by his contemporaries.
line 9: I must now urge upon you, as
line 10: a simple matter of justice
line 11: to contradict in your Circular
line 12: for November, the assertion
line 13: in your September Number
line 14: that the article in question
line 15: was from my pen: - and I am
line 16: sure, from a Firm like yours
line 17: with a great reputation on
line 18: both sides the Atlantic,
line 19: I shall not have a

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line 1: repetition of Mr Hotten's
line 2: ungentleman-like discourtesy
line 3: to contend with; but that you
line 4: will at once annul the
line 5: impression, - given under a
line 6: misconception, - that I had any
line 7: thing whatever to do with the
line 8: review you attributed to me.
line 9: I should be glad to have
line 10: spoken to any of gentlemen
line 11: of your firm, in further
line 12: explanation, did then leisure
line 13: permit - & I will only
line 14: now add, that my being absent
line 15: from England during all this
line 16: Byron discussion, - has alone
line 17: kept me in ignorance of
line 18: what was thought or published as to my share in it.
line 19: I am Gentlemen
line 20: Yours truly Caroline Norton