Autograph letter signed : Constantinople, to his mother, 1810 June 28.

Expressing regret that she has not received some of his letters; mentioning [William] Fletcher and [John Cam] Hobhouse; sending an account of the letters he has already sent to her; saying that he fears he will "contract a Gipsy-like wandering disposition, which will make home tiresome to [him]"; reiterating what he has seen on his travels so far; telling her that he "passed a fortnight in the Troad" and "the tombs of Achilles and Aesietes [sic] &c. still exist in large barrows similar to those ... in the North"; alluding to Lady Mary Wortley [Montagu]; explaining that she should not be alarmed if she does not hear from him regularly ("consider we have no regular post farther than Malta"); comparing St. Paul's Catherdral, St. Sophia's [Hagia Sophia], and the "Gothic Cathedral of Seville"; advising her to read [John Cam] Hobhouse's new volume of poetry; asking again whether she has received his portrait by [George] Sanders; giving his opinion that "Mr. Bowman ought to marry Miss Rushton ... the girl is his equal, if she were his inferior a sum of money and provision for the child would be some, though a poor compensation, as it is, he should marry her. I will have no gay deceivers on my Estate, and I shall not allow my tenants a privilege I do not permit myself, viz -- that, of debauching each other's daughters."