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"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

"cretan wine" in 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse

Location of JoGalt's house. 1810-10-04

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-09-25. "Thomas Hookham, Jr. (1787-1867) with his brother Edward conducted a publishing
and bookselling business at their father's circulating library at 15 Old Bond Street. He sold opera tickets it seems as well as books.…

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-09-25 to Hobhouse, to ThMoore 1813-08-28. See BLJ 3-102n for a translation of Maxime 85 (which offers an explanation of Byron’s wordplay).

London bookseller who began trading in 1784; he was imprisoned in 1793 for printing Thomas Paine's Rights of Man. LBT

Mentioned by Hobhouse in 1810-07-31a and by Byron in 1810-09-25. Thomas Macgill, a Malta resident who
had written a book on Turkey, LJ, 11:220. BB 41n

Named as visited by Byron in 1810-09-25 to JoHobhouse. A city in ancient Greece that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history. "Mantinea was an ancient town in Arcadia not far from the modern Tripolis (Tripolitza). The…

Named as visited by Byron to JoHobhouse 1810-09-25. A seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf. During the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, under Venetian domination,…

Named as visited by Byron in 1810-09-25 to Hobhouse.