TALBOT1426

Corfù
17^th April 1826

My dear Sir

Your Servant brought me your Letter Yesterday Morning, and I was happy to save the gallant Hotspur¹ from the Claws of the Police, which would not allow Him to remain here without some one to answer for Him.

I do not wonder at your admiring Zant. It is the most charming Island of Its Size in the World, and the most highly civilized. I enclose, according to your Desire, Two Letters of Recommendation, for very different Personages. One is for Count Comuto, the ancient time President of the Septinsular Republic,² a remarkably good Sample of what Old Men of high Degree were Fifty Years ago, with all the Politeness and Formality which were then in Existence: the other for a very great Genius, my young Friend Dionyssios Solomos, the Poet; our Modern Pindar.³ He is a very extraordinary young Man; and has besides his Astram,⁴ a great many excellent Qualities. Enjoy Yourself at Zant, but, pray, do not forget that this Island is the Seat not only of Government, but of the University; and that, if the Muses go to Zant for the Sake of Solomos, that is an unlawful Frolick, and this is their their [sic] proper legitimate domicile.

Adieu, my Dear sir, Believe Me, ever Y^rs most faithfully
Guilford

Many Compts to M^r and M^rs Gordon.⁵