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Byron's Cambridge friend. First elected fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.

"I regret to perceive by your last letter, that several of mine have not arrived, particularly a very long one written in November last from Albania, when I was on a visit to the Pacha of that province."

"It is now several months since I have received any communication from you, but at this I am not surprised, nor indeed have I any complaint to make {since} you have written frequently, for which I thank you."

"... I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I {think} there should be a law amongst us to set our…

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29 June 1811, a week out of Portsmouth on the return journey.

"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 ..."