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"I have just been two years (to a day on the 2d. of July) absent from England, and I return to it with much the same feelings which prevailed on my departure, viz. indifference, ...."

"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."

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

Byron's account of his visit to the court of the Ali Pasha, and "I have some very 'magnifique' Albanian dresses ...."

"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."

"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."

Byron, about to set sail for Greece, describes Mrs Spencer Smith to his Mother.

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

"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 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."