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Named as visited by Byron to HeDrury 1810-05-03. The name of the northwestern part of Epirus, the homeland of the Greek tribe of the Chaonians. Its main town was called Phoenice. According to Virgil, Chaon was the eponymous ancestor of the Chaonians.…

Hobhouse's residence as of 1810-12-10

Mentioned by Byron in 1811-07-07, the last letter before returning to England, and the London Journal 20 March 1814. The modern village sits north of the ancient town of Crissa, a powerful city-state of ancient Greece which gave its name to the…

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-07-29 and probably visited.

See 1809-07-16 to FrHodgson: "... the village of Cintra in Estremadura is the most beautiful, perhaps, in the world. * * *..."

Byron to JaCawthorn 1810-07-01. Site of Cawthorn's book shop.

69 St James' St. See 1809-06-22 and 1810-06-17

Cocoa-Tree Club, St. James's St — Was the Tory Chocolate House of Queen Anne's reign, the Whig Coffee House being the St. James's, lower down in the same street. http://www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/dickens-cocoatreeclub.htm
See Byron to…

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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)