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- Collection: Letters relevant or written to Byron during the Mediterranean Tour
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The Marquis of Sligo to the Marchioness of Sligo, from Tripolitza, August 3rd 1810
Sligo reveals that, at Tripolizta in the Morea, he was taken (a) for Byron and (b) for George III’s nephew. [PSC]
John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, from Malta, July 31st 1810
Hobhouse has kept a record of their expenditure abroad, Byron not. [PSC]
Scrope Berdmore Davies to Byron, July 17th 1810
"I was happy to hear from you, but should be more happy to see you – I not only am not relieved from responsibility, but am obliged to pay ...."
Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, mid-July 1810
More money worries
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]
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...."
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 ...."
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, February 10th 1810
Further discussion of debts
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...."