Actually, it's negative testimony against Simonides' later claims that he doesn't mention "Hadji John Prodomos" or his coffee house in any of the TOB issues in question that I've examined so far (up to the end of March - and remember - he's allegedly been in Constantinople since January 4th 1851...
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Just found Simonides life story in the
TOB.
Takes up an entire page of fine print in Greek.
It was preceded by something about Ishmael Passa.
From you:
Simonides himself, in a letter published in the newspaper
"Telegraph of Bosphorus" (sheet 384, p. 3), on 28.4.1851, says:
"So the tragic murder of the ever-mortal Kapodistrios, along with many others, brought about the destruction of the brilliant Orphanage in Aegina, where the seven hundred children of the Greeks who died and died in the wars were raised and taught, and then I, one of those who were reared there, after my brother Photios, who was born in the same name, went to Nafplio, and from there to Pechas, Hydra, and Syran, we both returned to Syme, seeking our father Simon. And having failed, we returned to
our mother's house under the protection of the relatives
of our mother Maria, who had been an Ethnikian for many years. After two years of living in Symi and studying with the then teacher of the island, Ierotheos Fotiadis of Symi, who was also a relative
of our mother, we separated, and on 18 December 1836, I returned to Syros, and my brother stayed with his relatives".
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php?threads/the-orphanage-of-simonides-youth.4411/#post-18334
