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"I did not intend to say any thing as I had nothing to say but when inclosing this letter, Hutton the Bailiff and two of his men arrived from Nottingham, how is this?"

"Mr Jones one of Lord Byrons Annuitants has arrested me, and myself and my Daughter are now at a Spunging House in Whych Street No. 51. ..."

"Your last 2 letters of 1810 I have just received, they find me on my way homewards, in the beginning of June I sail in the Volage frigate with French prizes and other English ships of war in all I believe 6 or 7 frigates. – – –"

"I have seen here your third Edition of “E. B. & S. R.” and observe that it is printed on the very type you {rejected} for the second edition."

"Since the long visit I paid you in Chancery Lane, I have heard three times from Lord Byron – ...."

Byron never made the journey to Cairo for which this introductory letter was intended. [PSC]

Suleiman Aga seems to have lent Byron some money. Byron purchased some guns and a gold watch (the watch cost £31.10s) in London in 1813, in preparation for a Levantine journey that never transpired; so Suleiman Aga may have waited in vain. [PSC]

"I was Much Disepointed in Not seeing you in Town Not that I had aney Pertikuler Message from his Lordship But his Lordship Desired that i must see you if Possible ...."

"Capitaine Ferguson tells me that he will perhaps touch Athens, in that case I hope he will bring me a letter of yours as he said you did mean to write to me before."

"Though I neither know where you are or how you are, I write at a venture by way of Zante, as I have already done many times, indeed so often that I can’t afford you more than this present sheet –..."