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"Though I do not think you have used me very well in not writing after my very frequent requests to that effect, I shall not give you an opportunity of recriminating, but fill this sheet to remind you of my existence and assure you of my regard,…

"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."

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

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

Even in Constantinople, Byron is concerned for the reception of English Bards. [PSC]

"I seize the opportunity of Mr. Hobhouse’s return to England to write a few lines, in the hope that they will find you well and as happy as philosophers are, and men ought to be. "

"They tell me the wind is too high for our expedition to Seraglio point...."

"I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy. "

"This letter will be delivered by Mr. Hobhouse ...."

"Byron wants a midshipman as substitute for Fletcher." [PSC]