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Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "The night before I left it, I sat in the box {at the opera} with Admiral Cordova’s family, he is the commander whom Ld. St. Vincent defeated in 1797, and has an aged wife and a fine daughter. – – –"

Byron to John Hanson, November 24th 1809:
(Source: text from B.L.Egerton 2611 ff.159-61; BLJ I 233-4)
Visited 1809-11-24 to JoHanson. A mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth,
forming the eastern part of the…

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "Talking of Asia puts me in mind of Africa, which is within five miles of my present residence. I am going over before I go on to Constantinople."
Byron says that he has visited Africa in 1810-07-20 to…

Greek hero of the Trojan, the son of King Telamon and Periboea

Named by Byron to CaByron 1809-11-12.

"There is a Bill of Miller’s in Albemarle’s which also must be paid immediately, on my arrival; I do not mean to reproach you, but I certainly thought there were funds to answer so small a draft when I left London, however it has remained in his…

a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I sent my baggage & part of the servants by sea to Gibraltar, and travelled on horseback from Aldea Gallega (the first stage from Lisbon which is only accessible by water) to Seville (one of the…

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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."