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another of my lady friends passes the winter at Palermo & wants me to join—I might make such a delightful tour!—What a grumbling wretch I am forgive me!” The Athenian is Alexander Mavrocordato, who was, at the time of writing, travelling from London to Athens to take up the post of Greek prime minister. He arrived on 12 June
and served barely nine weeks, being dismissed by the king on 21 August 1841. Published in Bennett, Betty T. (ed.), The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , 3 vols., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980–88. £6,750 [129798]
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