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"I understand by Mrs Byron That you have not Recd the money out of scotland that i was to be Paid out of, Therefore i fear i shall not get it all now. but I hope You’l be Kind annoughf to let me have a Part out of my Rents or something."

"I was Much Disepointed in Not seeing you in Town Not that I had aney Pertikuler Message from his Lordship But his Lordship Desired that i must see you if Possible ...."

Fletcher’s description of his suffering while trying to locate the money which Byron thinks Hanson must have sent, and which he needs for further travel, makes painful reading. {PSC]

Moore's reaction to EBSR; he does not know that Byron is out of the country.

Byron never made the journey to Cairo for which this introductory letter was intended. [PSC]

Suleiman Aga seems to have lent Byron some money. Byron purchased some guns and a gold watch (the watch cost £31.10s) in London in 1813, in preparation for a Levantine journey that never transpired; so Suleiman Aga may have waited in vain. [PSC]

"I was happy to hear from you, but should be more happy to see you – I not only am not relieved from responsibility, but am obliged to pay ...."

Byron thought that as a peer he should outrank the ambassador in the procession to the Seraglio, and had refused to go on the previous occasion. [PSC]

Sligo reveals that, at Tripolizta in the Morea, he was taken (a) for Byron and (b) for George III’s nephew. [PSC]

Poet, friend and biographer of Byron