Gordon

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Gordon

Subject

The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.

Description

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I left Seville and rode on to Cadiz through a beautiful country, at Xeres where the Sherry we drink is made I met a great merchant a Mr Gordon of Scotland, who was extremely polite and favoured me with the Inspection of his vaults & cellars so that I quaffed at the Fountain head."

Creator

Paul M Curtis

Source

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809:
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 236-42; QI 52-6; BLJ I 218-22)

Publisher

The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com

Date

13 April 2014

Contributor

Paul M Curtis

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.

Relation

David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/

Language

English

Type

Person

Coverage

English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824, 1809-1811

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birth notBefore="1700" notAfter="1799"

Death Date

death notBefore="1750" notAfter="1850"

Occupation

a Scottish sherry merchant

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Paul M Curtis, “Gordon,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 25, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/335.

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