You must have heard that I am going to Greece. Why do you not
come to me? I want
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your aid, and am exceedingly anxious
to see you. Pray come, for I am at last determined to go to Greece; it is the
only place I was ever contented in. I am serious, and did not write before, as
I might have given you a journey for nothing; they all say I can be of use in
Greece. I do not know how, nor do they; but at all events let us go.
Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881)
Writer, adventurer, and friend of Shelley and Byron; author of the fictionalized memoirs,
Adventures of a Younger Son (1831) and Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858).
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Author: Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881
Title:Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858).
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