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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It will have been noticed that in the document only suspicion was affirmed. Lord Lovelace states that after the Separation-deed had been signed, Lady Byron wrote and told Mrs. Leigh what she believed. Augusta made no attempt to deny it, and in fact admitted every thing in her letters of june, July, and August, Lord Lovelace did not consider it necessary to produce these in Astarte because (he said) their contents were confirmed and made sufficiently clear by the corre spondence of 1819 -which comprises a letter from Byron to Augusta of May 17, letters from Augusta to Lady Byron in June, and Lady Byron''s answers to those letters. Byron''s is, in fact, a vehement love-letter. Beginning My dearest love, its strongest note is that of reproach for her change of conduct towards him since his marriage.