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- Collection: Letters relevant or written to Byron during the Mediterranean Tour
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John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, at sea, August 16th–24th 1810
An envelope (with the letter missing [PSC]) on which Hobhouse writes various bits of news.
John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, from Cadiz, October 6th 1810
Hobhouse’s enthusiasm for the new Spanish parliament awakens nothing corresponding in Byron’s letters back. [PSC]
John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, from Cagliari, August 15th 1810
Hobhouse requests Byron to forward the three or four boxes of marbles that he had forgotten under the influence of wine.
John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, from Chepstow, December 10th 1810
Hobhouse has written in every cranny of this sheet (40.4 x 32cm), including where the sealing- wax might, if ripped, destroy the text. [PSC]
John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, from Malta, July 31st 1810
Hobhouse has kept a record of their expenditure abroad, Byron not. [PSC]
John Cam Hobhouse to Charles Skinner Matthews, from Lisbon, July 8th 1809
Hothouse's gritty account of Lisbon
John Cam Hobhouse to Charles Skinner Matthews, from The White Lion, Bath, October 21st 1810
"I do not loose a moment to inform you of my return to England ...."
John Cam Hobhouse to John Hanson, from Dover, April 23rd 1811
"Since the long visit I paid you in Chancery Lane, I have heard three times from Lord Byron – ...."
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]