Letters relevant or written to Byron during the Mediterranean Tour
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Title
Letters relevant or written to Byron during the Mediterranean Tour
Subject
The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.
Description
The 44 diplomatic transcriptions of letters to and about Byron appear at Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
Creator
Paul M Curtis
Source
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Graham, Peter W. Byron's Bulldog. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984.
Graham, Peter W. Byron's Bulldog. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984.
Publisher
The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com
Date
13 April 2014
Contributor
Paul M Curtis
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.
Relation
David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/
http://www.lordbyron.org/
Format
docx
Language
English
Type
Epistolary
Coverage
English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824, 1809-1811
Collection Items
John Cam Hobhouse to Charles Skinner Matthews, from Lisbon, July 8th 1809
Hothouse's gritty account of Lisbon
Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead Abbey, October 4th 1809
Very detailed money matters
Thomas Moore to Byron, from 22 Molesworth Street, Dublin, January 1st 1810
Moore's reaction to EBSR; he does not know that Byron is out of the country.
Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead Abbey, February 3rd 1810
"The inclosed was brought here this day by two Bailiffs ...."
Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead Abbey, February 5th 1810
A third bailiff's notice "stuck up another on the outside of the great Hall Door...."
Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead Abbey, February 10th 1810
Further discussion of debts
Ali Pacha to William Martin Leake from Ioannina, March 27th 1810
"Ali’s letter, part threat, part appeal, shows the perpetual insecurity in which he lived, and the political reality which, unknown as it seems to Byron and Hobhouse, lay beneath his friendly welcome in October 1809." [PSC]
Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead Abbey, June 11th 1810
"I would struggle with every difficulty to keep things together & God knows I have difficulties enough to struggle with besides bad health ...."
Mrs Pigot to Mrs Byron, before October 1810
"Indeed, my dear Mrs. Byron, you have given me a very great treat in sending me English Bards to look at...."
Robert Adair (English Ambassador to the Porte), to Byron, from Pera, Constantinople, July 4th 1810
Byron thought that as a peer he should outrank the ambassador in the procession to the Seraglio, and had refused to go on the previous occasion. [PSC]