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"I have no redress but to write again [regarding remittances], & again, a merry task to one, who hates writing as I do."

"I have traversed the greatest part of Greece ... resided ten weeks at Athens, and am now on the Asiatic side on my way to Constantinople."

"Ali’s letter, part threat, part appeal, shows the perpetual insecurity in which he lived, and the political reality which, unknown as it seems to Byron and Hobhouse, lay beneath his friendly welcome in October 1809." [PSC]

"Tomorrow, or this evening I sail for Constantinople in the Salsette 36 gun frigate ...."

"It has been my custom to write to you from every seaport on my arrival & previous to my
departure ...."

"I write at anchor (on our way to Constantinople) off the Troad which I traversed two days
ago ...."

"When I left England nearly a year ago you requested me to write to you. – I will do so."

"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. –"

"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 ...."

"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."