"The Morning Post says _I_ am the author of Nourjahad!! This comes
of lending the drawings for their dresses; but it is not worth a
_formal contradiction_. Besides, the criticisms on the
_supposition_ will, some of them, be quite amusing and furious. The
_Orientalism_--which I hear is very splendid--of the melodrame
(whosever it is, and I am sure I don't know) is as good as an
advertisement for your Eastern Stories, by filling their heads with
glitter.

"P.S. You will of course _say_ the truth, that I am _not_ the
melodramist--if any one charges me in your presence with the
performance."

* * * * *

LETTER 149. TO MR. MURRAY.

"November 28. 1813.

"Send another copy (if not too much of a request) to Lady Holland
of the _Journal_[111], in my name, when you receive this; it is for
_Earl Grey_--and I will relinquish my _own_. Also to Mr. Sharpe,
and Lady Holland, and Lady Caroline Lamb, copies of 'The Bride' as
soon as convenient.

"P.S. Mr. Ward and myself still continue our purpose; but I shall
not trouble you on any arrangement on the score of The Giaour and
The Bride till our return,--or, at any rate, before _May_,
1814,--that is, six months from hence: and before that time you