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Byron, about to set sail for Greece, describes Mrs Spencer Smith to his Mother.

Byron's account of his visit to the court of the Ali Pasha, and "I have some very 'magnifique' Albanian dresses ...."

"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."

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

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

"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 ...."

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

"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."

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

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