You will receive a long letter, sent with some of Lord Byron’s, express to Florence. I write this in haste.--Yours most affectionately, S. [36] _Memoirs of a Greek_ [by Thomas Hope], 3 vols. Murray, 1819.--Ed. TO MRS. SHELLEY. _Ravenna, Tuesday, August 14th, 1821._ My dearest Love, I accept your kind present of your picture, and wish you would get it prettily framed for me. I will wear, for your sake, upon my heart this image which is ever present to my mind. I have only two minutes to write, the post is just setting off. I shall leave this place on Thursday or Friday morning. You would forgive me for my longer stay, if you knew the fighting I have had to make it so short. I need not say where my own feelings impel me. It still remains fixed that Lord Byron should come to Tuscany, and, if possible, Pisa; but more of that to-morrow. Your faithful and affectionate, S. TO MRS. SHELLEY. _Ravenna, Wednesday [Aug. 15, 1821]._ My dearest Love, I write, though I doubt whether I shall not arrive before this letter; as the post only leaves Ravenna once a week, on Saturdays, and as I hope to set out to-morrow evening by the courier. But as I must necessarily stay a day at Florence, and as the natural incidents of travelling may prevent me from taking my intended advantage of the couriers, it is probable that this letter will arrive first. Besides, as I will explain, I am not _yet_ quite my own master. But that by and bye. I do not think it necessary to tell you of my impatience to return to you and my little darling, or the disappointment with which I have prolonged my absence from you. I am happy to think that you are not quite alone. Lord Byron is still decided upon Tuscany; and such is his impatience, that he has desired me--as if I should not arrive in time--to write to you to inquire for the best unfurnished palace in Pisa, and to enter upon a treaty for it. It is better not to be on the Lung’ Arno; but, in fact, there is no such hurry, and as I shall see you so soon, it is not worth while to trouble yourself about it.