Autograph letter signed : Prevesa, to his mother, 1809 Nov. 12.

Describing his travels in Greece and Albania; commenting on Ali Pacha and his son "Velly Pacha"; noting that Ali Pasha provided a house for him and supplied him with "every kind of necessary, gratis"; going into great detail about the street scene in Tepelene and his reception by Ali Pasha; sending Ali Pasha's compliments to his mother; commenting on the Turkish fascination with his pedigree: "It is singular that the Turks who have no heriditary dignities & few great families except the Sultan's pay so much respect to birth, for I found my pedigree more regarded than even my title"; remarking that Ali Pasha is actually "a remorseless tyrant, guilty of the most horrible cruelties, very brave & so good a general, that they call him the Mahometan Buonaparte"; describing ruins he has been to see at Actium and Nicopolis; telling her that he will winter at Athens, where he plans to study modern Greek; giving details of a Turkish ship of war that almost capsized in a storm ("I shall not trust Turkish Sailors in future"); writing that he "like[s] the Albanians much"; mentioning his companion Mr. [John Cam] Hobhouse; adding that he has "some very 'magnifique' Albanian dresses."