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

"As I have just escaped from a physician and a fever which confined me five days to bed, you wont expect much “allegrezza” in the ensuing letter."

"... In most of your letters, that is to say two the only ones I have received of yours, you complain of my silence, this complaint I presume to be removed by this time, as I have written frequently ..."

"... I have forwarded to the Caimacam of the Morea the letter which accompanied that of your Excellency, & it has produced a long apology from the Bey of Corinth ..."

"1st At twenty three the best of life is over and its bitters double."

"I have been scolding you (like almost all Scolders) without a reason, for I found your two parcels, one at Athens, & the other at Malta on my way down."

"I have been so much occupied since my departure from England that till I could address you a little at length, I have forborn writing altogether."

Byron to Mr Rushton, August 14th 1809:
(Source: National Library of Scotland Acc.12604/ 4219A or C; LJ I 242-3; BLJ I 222)

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