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"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."

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

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

"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."

"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 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…

Byron's Mother

Further discussion of debts

"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...."