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"Pray did you ever receive a picture of me in oil by Sanders in Vigo Lane London?"

"I wrote to you the other day but another conveyance offering, I shall trouble you once more in
hopes of at least extorting a reply."

"I arrived here in an English frigate from Smyrna a few days ago ... and afterwards when we were at anchor in the Dardanelles, swimming from Sestos to Abydos, in imitation of Monsieur Leander ...."

"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. –"

"When I left England nearly a year ago you requested me to write to you. – I will do so."

"I write at anchor (on our way to Constantinople) off the Troad which I traversed two days
ago ...."

"It has been my custom to write to you from every seaport on my arrival & previous to my
departure ...."

"Tomorrow, or this evening I sail for Constantinople in the Salsette 36 gun frigate ...."

"I have traversed the greatest part of Greece ... resided ten weeks at Athens, and am now on the Asiatic side on my way to Constantinople."

"I have no redress but to write again [regarding remittances], & again, a merry task to one, who hates writing as I do."