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Dandy and friend of Byron.

Byron to FrHodgson 1811-01-20. Name used by Fletcher in 1811-05-30. Geo coor for Aberdeen

Visited as of 1810-05-03: "... if they prefer riding lose their way {(as I did)} in a cursed quagmire of the Scamander who wriggles about as if the Dardan virgins still offered their wonted tribute." Karamenderes is the modern name of the river…

Byron to John Hanson, August 31st 1809:
(Source: text from B.L.Egerton 2611 ff.146-8; BLJ I 223)

Named as will visit and will jump form the promontory 1810-06-17. A Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of
Greece, also known by the name Santo Maura. The myth about Sappho's suicide at Cape Lefkada is related to other myths linking…

Mentioned by Hobhouse to Byron in 1810-07-31a and by Byron in 1811-03-05 to Hobhouse. Sandford Graham, at Trinity College with Byron and Hobhouse, was
an M.P. and antiquarian. He succeeded his father as second baronet in 1825.
Graham, Peter W.…

English Consul at Patras in the Morea

writer and actor

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)
Visited see 1809-11-12. Salora was a barrack 12 miles distant from Prevesa by water on the…

The wife of William Fletcher, Byron's valet