Browse Items (577 total)

"Pray did you ever receive a picture of me in oil by Sanders in Vigo Lane London?"

"Byron wants a midshipman as substitute for Fletcher." [PSC]

"I would struggle with every difficulty to keep things together & God knows I have difficulties enough to struggle with besides bad health ...."

"This letter will be delivered by Mr. Hobhouse ...."

"I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy. "

"They tell me the wind is too high for our expedition to Seraglio point...."

"I seize the opportunity of Mr. Hobhouse’s return to England to write a few lines, in the hope that they will find you well and as happy as philosophers are, and men ought to be. "

Even in Constantinople, Byron is concerned for the reception of English Bards. [PSC]

"Indeed, my dear Mrs. Byron, you have given me a very great treat in sending me English Bards to look at...."

Byron writes his first letter to Hobhouse eleven days after they part. [PSC]