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Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, November 12th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 246-57; QI 58-63; BLJ I 226-31);
classical topographer and numismatist.

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I have met Sir John Carr Knight errant at Seville & Cadiz, he is a pleasant man."

Classical scholar, son of the Revd Joseph Drury (1751–1834). "Headmaster of Harrow School 1785-1805)."
Garrett, Martin. The Palgrave Dictionary of Byron. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, 91.
Henry Drury was Byron’s…

Byron to James Cawthorn, from The Volage Frigate off Ushant July 7th. 1811*

Mentioned by GeForesti in 1810-01-05 and see BJL 3-160n with reference to Byron to AnMilbanke 17 Nov 1813. 1810-10-13:
"Stratford Canning, cousin of the statesman George Canning, had been first secretary of the British Embassy in Constantinople…

Mentioned by Hobhouse in 1810-08-16 and by Byron in 1810-11-26. See 1810-11-26 to Hobhouse. "Charles Robert Cockerell (1788—1863), an architect who later achieved renown, was starting on a course of professional studies by exploring…

Mentioned by Byron in 1811-01-20 to FrHodgson

Poet, critic, painter, landscape gardener. From the ODNB: "Poet, critic, and religious humanist, Pope was also a good conversationalist and letter writer, an influential garden designer, and a connoisseur of architecture and art."

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; mentioned by Byron to FrHodgson 1810-10-03