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to FrHodgson 1810-10-03

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

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"... Nourse and Darwin had been at Athens scribbling all sorts of ribaldry over my old apartment, where Sligo before my arrival had added to your B.A. an A.S.S. ..."

"Notts" often used by Byron as a metonym for Burgage Manor and other locations in the shire.

Byron's Norfolk copyholds. See 1810-03-03

Byron to John Hanson, September 29th 1809:
(Source: text from B.L.Egerton 2611 ff.149-51; BLJ I 225)
Named by Byron in 1809-09-29. Or Actia Nicopolis was a city of Epirus (western Greece) founded by Octavian in commemoration of his victory in 31 BC…

a friend and possibly a lover of Byron

Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire -- Byron's ancestral home

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,…