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22 Works, Today, June 14th. is John Frederick Lewis’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #162
Leaving Rome early in 1840, Lewis travelled to Constantinople, seeing Albania, Corfu, Athens and Smyrna en route. He spent the best part of a year in the Levant, but in November 1841, at the age of thirty-six, he sailed for Egypt. John Frederick Lewis RA (London 14 July 1804–15 August 1876) was a British Orientalist…