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"I wrote to you two days ago, but the weather and my friend Stranè’s conversation being much the same, and my ally Nicolo in bed with a fever, I think I may as well talk to you, the rather, as you cant answer me and excite my wrath with impatient…

"I am at present in a very ridiculous situation, under the hands of Dr. Romanelli and a fever which hath confined me to my bed for these three days past, but by the blessing of God and two glysters, I am now able to sit up, but much debilitated."

"My dear Hobhouse This very day two years we sailed from Inghilterra, so that I have completed the period I expected to be absent, though my wishes were originally more {extensive}."

"In the gentle dullness of a Summer voyage I shall converse with you for half an hour. – –"

Byron’s account of his meeting with Veli Pacha. [PSC]

"What you wd be most interested to hear wd be the progress of your Miss-Sell-Any ..." and other literary news.

a Neapolitan painter, and Elgin's agent BLJ II-12n

An envelope (with the letter missing [PSC]) on which Hobhouse writes various bits of news.

Hobhouse’s enthusiasm for the new Spanish parliament awakens nothing corresponding in Byron’s letters back. [PSC]

Hobhouse requests Byron to forward the three or four boxes of marbles that he had forgotten under the influence of wine.