Fletcher’s description of his suffering while trying to locate the money which Byron thinks Hanson must have sent, and which he needs for further travel, makes painful reading. {PSC]
"I have written my negative to your proposal on the subject of Newstead, by my servant Fletcher, which I presume is delivered by this time, and I write now for the purpose of repeating it. – will not sell Newstead, come what may! – – –"
"I am very happy to hear that you have been so well amused in Greece; and your plans for the future are so promising that I have no doubt your amusement will be progressive."
"I wrote to you two days ago, but the weather and my friend Stranè’s conversation being much the same, and my ally Nicolo in bed with a fever, I think I may as well talk to you, the rather, as you cant answer me and excite my wrath with impatient…