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

Byron thought that as a peer he should outrank the ambassador in the procession to the Seraglio, and had refused to go on the previous occasion. [PSC]

More money worries

"I was happy to hear from you, but should be more happy to see you – I not only am not relieved from responsibility, but am obliged to pay ...."

"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."

"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,…

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

Sligo reveals that, at Tripolizta in the Morea, he was taken (a) for Byron and (b) for George III’s nephew. [PSC]

"It certainly appears very extraordinary that Lord Byron should not have made a sufficient provision for the payment of those people...."

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