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Hothouse's gritty account of Lisbon

Byron writes his first letter to Hobhouse eleven days after they part. [PSC]

Hobhouse has kept a record of their expenditure abroad, Byron not. [PSC]

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

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

Byron’s account of his life at the Athenian convent. [PSC]

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

"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."

"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…

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