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Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, Dardanelles, April 17th 1810 (22)
"I write at anchor (on our way to Constantinople) off the Troad which I traversed two days
ago ...."
ago ...."
Byron to Henry Drury, from the Salsette, off the Dardanelles, May 3rd 1810 (23)
"When I left England nearly a year ago you requested me to write to you. – I will do so."
Byron to Francis Hodgson, from the Salsette, May 5th 1810 (24)
"I am on my way to Constantinople after a turn through Greece Epirus &c and part of Asia minor, some particulars of which I have just communicated to our friend & Host H. Drury, with these then I shall not trouble you. –"
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Constantinople, May 18th 1810 (25)
"I arrived here in an English frigate from Smyrna a few days ago ... and afterwards when we were at anchor in the Dardanelles, swimming from Sestos to Abydos, in imitation of Monsieur Leander ...."
Byron to John Hanson, from Constantinople, May 23rd 1810 (26)
"I wrote to you the other day but another conveyance offering, I shall trouble you once more in
hopes of at least extorting a reply."
hopes of at least extorting a reply."
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Constantinople, May 24th 1810 (27)
"Pray did you ever receive a picture of me in oil by Sanders in Vigo Lane London?"
Byron to Captain Walter Bathurst, from Pera, May 29th 1810 (28)
"Byron wants a midshipman as substitute for Fletcher." [PSC]
Byron to John Hanson, from Constantinople, June 15th 1810 (29)
"This letter will be delivered by Mr. Hobhouse ...."
Byron to Henry Drury, from Constantinople, June 17th 1810 (30)
"I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy. "
Byron to an unknown “Doctor,” from Constantinople, June 20th 1810 (31)
"They tell me the wind is too high for our expedition to Seraglio point...."