occasion no interruption to your field sports.

Your Accommodation I have no doubt I shall be perfectly satisfied
with, only do exterminate that _vile Generation_ of _Bugs_ which
nearly ate me up the last Time I _sojourned_ at your House. After
undergoing the Purgatory of Harrow _board_ and _Lodging_ for three
Months I shall not be _particular_ or exorbitant in my demands.

Pray give my best Compliments to Mrs. Hanson and the now
_quilldriving_ Hargreaves [2]. Till I see you, I remain, Yours, etc.,
BYRON.



[Footnote 1: Byron spent the Christmas holidays of 1804-5 with the
Hansons. He gave Hanson to understand that it was his wish to leave the
school, and that Dr. Drury agreed with him in the decision. Hanson,
after consulting Lord Carlisle, wrote to Drury, urging that Byron was
too young to leave the school. Drury's reply, dated December 29, 1804,
gave a different colour to the matter.

"Your letter," he writes, "supposes that Lord Byron was desirous to
leave school, and that I acquiesced in his Wish: but I must do him the
Justice to observe that _the wish originated with me._ During his last
residence at Harrow his conduct gave me much trouble and uneasiness;
and as two of his Associates were to leave me at Christmas, I
certainly suggested to him _my wish_ that he might be placed under the
care of some private Tutor previously to his admission to either of
the Universities. This I did no less with a view to the forming of his
mind and manners, than to my own comfort; and I am fully convinced