answer on C.'s business.

Ever yours, sincerely and affectionately,

BYRON.

My love to all the family.

I wish to do something for young Rushton, if practicable at _Rochdale_;
if not, think of some situation where he might occupy himself to avoid
Idleness, in the mean time.



[Footnote 1: Deardon was the lessee of the Rochdale coal-pits.

"When Mr. France was here," writes Mrs. Byron to Hanson, July 13, 1811
(Koelbing's 'Englische Studien', vol. xxv. p. I53), "he told me there
had been an injunction procured to prevent Deardin from working the
Coal Pits that was in dispute between Lord Byron and him, but since
France was here, there has been a Man from Lancashire who says they
are worked by Deardin the same as ever. I also heard that the Person
you sent down to take an account of the Coals was bribed by Deardin,
and did not give an account of half of what was got."]


[Footnote 2: For Mrs. Massingberd, see 'Letters', vol. i. p. 100, at end
of 'note' 3 [Footnote 1 of Letter 52]. Byron's pecuniary transactions,
though not unimportant in their influence on his career, are difficult
to unravel. The following statement, in his own handwriting, with regard