This touching picture agrees so closely in many of its circumstances, with his own prose account of the wedding in his Memoranda, that I feel justified in introducing it, historically, here. In that Memoir, he described himself as waking, on the morning of his marriage, with the most melancholy reflections, on seeing his wedding-suit spread out before him. In the same mood, he wandered about the grounds alone, till he was summoned for the ceremony, and joined, for the first time on that day, his bride and her family. He knelt down, he repeated the words after the clergyman; but a mist was before his eyes,--his thoughts were elsewhere; and he was but awakened by the congratulations of the bystanders, to find that he was--married. The same morning, the wedded pair left Seaham for Halnaby, another seat of Sir Ralph Milbanke, in the same county. When about to depart, Lord Byron said to the bride, "Miss Milbanke, are you ready?"--a mistake which the lady's confidential attendant pronounced to be a "bad omen." It is right to add, that I quote these slight details from memory, and am alone answerable for any inaccuracy there may be found in them. [Footnote 62: The Dream.] * * * * * LETTER 208. TO MR. MURRAY. "Kirkby, January 6. 1815. "The marriage took place on the 2d instant: so pray make haste and congratulate away. "Thanks for the Edinburgh Review and the abolition of the print. Let the next be from the _other_ of Phillips--I mean (_not_ the Albanian, but) the original one in the exhibition; the last was from the copy. I should wish my sister and Lady Byron to decide upon the next, as they found fault with the last. _I_ have no opinion of my own upon the subject. "Mr. Kinnaird will, I dare say, have the goodness to furnish copies of the Melodies[63], if you state my wish upon the subject. You may have them, if you think them worth inserting. The volumes in their collected state must be inscribed to Mr. Hobhouse, but I have not yet mustered the expressions of my inscription; but will supply them in time. With many thanks for your good wishes, which have all been realised, I remain, very truly, yours, "BYRON." [Footnote 63: The Hebrew Melodies which he had employed himself in writing, during his recent stay in London.] * * * * * LETTER 209. TO MR. MOORE. "Halnaby, Darlington, January 10, 1815. "I was married this day week. The parson has pronounced it--Perry has announced it--and the Morning Post, also, under the head of 'Lord Byron's Marriage'--as if it were a fabrication, or the puff-direct of a new stay-maker.