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"I have just been two years (to a day on the 2d. of July) absent from England, and I return to it with much the same feelings which prevailed on my departure, viz. indifference, ...."

"I regret to perceive by your last letter, that several of mine have not arrived, particularly a very long one written in November last from Albania, when I was on a visit to the Pacha of that province."

"It is now several months since I have received any communication from you, but at this I am not surprised, nor indeed have I any complaint to make {since} you have written frequently, for which I thank you."

"... I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I {think} there should be a law amongst us to set our…

"I have arrived here [Athens] in four days from Constantinople which is considered as singularly quick particularly for the season of the year ..."

"I have been so much occupied since my departure from England that till I could address you a little at length, I have forborn writing altogether."

More money worries

Very detailed money matters

"The inclosed was brought here this day by two Bailiffs ...."

A third bailiff's notice "stuck up another on the outside of the great Hall Door...."