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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.

"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]