{ Mem.: This receipt is for the above sum, £101:15:8. { in part of five hundred guineas agreed to { be paid by Mr. Murray for the Copyright { of _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_." The following poems are appended to the MS. of the First and Second Cantos of _Childe Harold_:-- 1. "Written at Mrs. Spencer Smith's request, in her memorandum-book-- "'As o'er the cold sepulchral stone.'" 2. "Stanzas written in passing the Ambracian Gulph, November 14, 1809." 3. "Written at Athens, January 16th, 1810-- "'The spell is broke, the charm is flown.'" 4. "Stanzas composed October 11, 1809, during the night in a thunderstorm, when the guides had lost the road to Zitza, in the range of mountains formerly called Pindus, in Albania." On a blank leaf bound up with the MS. at the end of the volume, Byron wrote-- "Dear D^s.,--This is all that was contained in the MS., but the outside cover has been torn off by the booby of a binder. Yours ever, B." The volume is bound in smooth green morocco, bordered by a single gilt line. "MS." in gilt lettering is stamped on the side cover. II. COLLATION OF FIRST EDITION, QUARTO, 1812, WITH MS. OF THE FIRST CANTO. The MS. numbers ninety-one stanzas, the First Edition ninety-three stanzas. OMISSIONS FROM THE MS. Stanza vii. "Of all his train there was a henchman page,"-- Stanza viii. "Him and one yeoman only did he take,"-- Stanza xxii. "Unhappy Vathek! in an evil hour,"-- Stanza xxv. "In golden characters right well designed,"-- Stanza xxvii. "But when Convention sent his handy work,"-- Stanza xxviii. "Thus unto Heaven appealed the people: Heaven,"-- Stanza lxxxviii. "There may you read with spectacles on eyes,"-- Stanza lxxxix. "There may you read--Oh, Phoebus, save Sir John,"-- Stanza xc. "Yet here of Vulpes mention may be made,"-- INSERTIONS IN THE FIRST EDITION. Stanza i. "Oh, thou! in Hellas deemed of heavenly birth,"-- Stanza viii. "Yet oft-times in his maddest mirthful mood,"-- Stanza ix. "And none did love him!--though to hall and bower,"-- Stanza xliii. "Oh, Albuera! glorious field of grief!"-- Stanza lxxxv. "Adieu, fair Cadiz! yea, a long adieu!"-- Stanza lxxxvi. "Such be the sons of Spain, and strange her Fate,"-- Stanza lxxxviii. "Flows there a tear of Pity for the dead?"-- Stanza lxxxix. "Not yet, alas! the dreadful work is done,"-- Stanza xc. "Not all the blood at Talavera shed,"-- Stanza xci. "And thou, my friend!--since unavailing woe,"-- Stanza xcii. "Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most,"-- The MS. of the Second Canto numbers eighty stanzas; the First Edition numbers eighty-eight stanzas. OMISSIONS FROM THE MS.