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"... In most of your letters, that is to say two the only ones I have received of yours, you complain of my silence, this complaint I presume to be removed by this time, as I have written frequently ..."

"I have been journeying in different parts of Greece for these last four months, and you may expect me in England somewhere about April, but this is very dubious."

"I shall begin by telling you, having only told it you twice before, that I swam from Sestos to Abydos."

"I have just arrived at this place after a journey through Portugal, and a part of Spain, of nearly 500 miles."

"I am very happy here [Lisbon], because I loves oranges, and talk bad Latin to the monks ..."

The "Lisbon Packet" letter. Seemingly spontaneous, the letter is a fair copy, with one stanza to a page – though that doesn’t spoil the fun. [PSC]

"As I have just escaped from a physician and a fever which confined me five days to bed, you wont expect much “allegrezza” in the ensuing letter."

"I am on my way to Constantinople after a turn through Greece Epirus &c and part of Asia minor, some particulars of which I have just communicated to our friend & Host H. Drury, with these then I shall not trouble you. –"

"I think, upon the whole, I was more grieved at leaving Greece, than England, which I am impatient to see, simply because I am tired of a long voyage."

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-05-03. Identified by Tim Webb.
See The Byron Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 49-58.