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- Collection: The 225 places named in Byron's letters from the Tour
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Mykonos (Mycone)
Location of JoGalt's house. 1810-10-04
Crete
"cretan wine" in 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse
Sparta
"Galt also writes something not very intelligible about a “Spartan state paper” which by his account is anything but Laconic, now the said Sparta having some years ceased to be a state, what the devil does he mean by a paper?" 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse
The Monastery of Pendele and Mount Pentelicus (Mendele)
Named as the the place of first of 200 plen opCs 1810-10-04 Byron to Hobhouse. BLJ 2-23n
Isthmus of Corinth
Named as crossed by Byron 1810-07-29. The narrow land bridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the rest of the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth. Wiki
The White Lion, Bath
JoHobhouse to ChMatthews 1810-10-21
c/o James Ridgeway's Bookstore, Piccadilly
Hobhouse's London mailing address
Salamis
Byron to Hodgson 1810-11-14
Gulph of Aegina (Saronic Gulf)
formed between the peninsulas of Attica and Argolis and forms part of the Aegean Sea. Wiki
Bath
"Sandford Graham whom you remember at Trinity dines with me tomorrow (the 28th.) He tells me that Davies is to be married to an heiress whom he picked up at Bath. – – " 1810-11-26 Byron to Hobhouse