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"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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?"

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

"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."