After the completion, but before the publication of cantos III, IV, and V, in a letter (16 February 1821) to Murray, Byron said: “The Fifth is so far from being the last of "Don Juan", that it is hardly the beginning. I meant to take him the tour of Europe, with a proper mixture of siege, battle, and adventure, and to make him finish as Anacharsis Cloots in the French Revolution. . . . I meant to have made him a "Cavalier Servente" in Italy, and a cause for a divorce in England, and a Sentimental "Werther–faced man" in Germany, so as to show the different ridicules of the society in each of these countries, and to have displayed him gradually "gâté" and "blasé", as he grew older, as is natural. But I had not quite fixed whether to make him end in Hell, or in an unhappy marriage, not knowing which would be the severest.”