Autograph letter signed : Athens, to his mother, 1810 July 20.

Informing her of his arrival in Athens; noting that "Northern Gentry can have no conception of a Greek Summer, which however is a perfect Frost compared with Malta, and Gibraltar"; saying that he prefers Athens to any place he has seen; reporting that he saw Sultan Mahmout at the "audience of leave" of [Sir Robert] Adair, British ambassador to the Constantinople embassy, and "obtained a firman to visit the Mosques"; telling her that he ran into the Marquis of Sligo and plans to travel with him "into the Morea"; remarking that he is "already woefully sick of travelling companions after a years [sic] experience of Mr. [John Cam] Hobhouse; adding that [William] Fletcher, his valet, sends "half a dozen sighs to Sally his spouse"; commenting on the lack of letters from Mr. Hanson; asking again if she has received his portrait painted by [George] Sanders.