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"I have just heard of the arrival and intended immediate departure of your boat, but as I wished to give you all the news now afloat here I have taken the liberty of stopping it, ..."

"I am this moment come out of the Turkish Bath, which is an immense luxury to me, though I am afraid it would not suit you at all, their being a great deal of rubbing, sweating, & washing (your aversion)..."

"In order to have nothing to reproch myself I write another letter having some reason to suppose the first was lost."

"This then is the alternative, if I preserve Newstead, I return, if I sell it, I stay away. – –"

"I have been ill and well, quick and sorry, and glad, and coming, going and staying, like the rest of mankind, without gaining a step towards improvement except in languages, and even there my head is but a Babel of bad sounds."

"The bearer of this is an unfortunate Physcian, whose Medicine chest being pawned & business at a stand-still, has applied to me for assistance, as he is under the protection of our Government.—"

"Mr Bolton informs me that if Mr Hanson had accepted the bills he would have saved a poor Man, his Wife, and eight children, from ruin, ..."

The Bey of Corinth apologizes to Byron for the poor reception Byron received in Corinth during the Bey's absence.

"As I have just received a firman enabling {me} to proceed to Ægypt & Syria, I shall not return to England before I have visited Jerusalem & Grand Cairo."

"Being enabled by a firman from the Porte to proceed to Jerusalem & Ægypt, I shall visit the Pyramids & Palestine before I return."