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"I did not intend to say any thing as I had nothing to say but when inclosing this letter, Hutton the Bailiff and two of his men arrived from Nottingham, how is this?"

"This then is the alternative, if I preserve Newstead, I return, if I sell it, I stay away. – –"

"Mr Bolton informs me that if Mr Hanson had accepted the bills he would have saved a poor Man, his Wife, and eight children, from ruin, ..."

"Being enabled by a firman from the Porte to proceed to Jerusalem & Ægypt, I shall visit the Pyramids & Palestine before I return."

Catherine Byron's business correspondence with John Hanson, with regard to the Sanders portrait of Byron.

"In four days {from Constantinople} with a favourable wind I arrived in the frigate at the island of Zea, from whence I took a boat to Athens where I met my friend the Marquis of Sligo who expressed a wish to proceed with me as far as Corinth."

More money worries

"Indeed, my dear Mrs. Byron, you have given me a very great treat in sending me English Bards to look at...."

"I would struggle with every difficulty to keep things together & God knows I have difficulties enough to struggle with besides bad health ...."

"Pray did you ever receive a picture of me in oil by Sanders in Vigo Lane London?"