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"You will see by the enclosed Letter from Mrs. Massingberd the necessity of coming to some arrangement immediately ."

"Sir,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of the letter of credit."

"In case of any accident befalling the letter which Mr. Hobhouse has in charge for you, I send a second merely to state that my own return will not take place for some time ..."

Byron's solicitor and life-long friend.

B to Hobhouse 4 April 1810 JoHobhouse
Named by Byron in 1809-09-29 to JoHanson. In 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse: "I have some idea of purchasing the Island of Ithaca, I suppose you will add me to the Levant Lunatics."

"An opportunity occurring I write to mention that having received a firman for Ægypt &c. I shall proceed to that quarter in the spring."

"As I have just received a firman from the Porte enabling me to proceed to Ægypt & Syria I shall not return to England before I have seen Jerusalem & Grand Cairo."

"Yours arrived on the first Inst. it tells me I am ruined."

"The Bearer of this, William Fletcher, has lived with me some years and served me very faithfully ...."

"My affairs, I must own, seem desperate enough, I shall adjust them as far as in my power, & (after procuring a recommendation & appointment on Ld. Wellingtons or Genl. Grahams supernumerary staff ...."