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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; mentioned by Byron to FrHodgson 1810-10-03

Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire -- Byron's ancestral home

"As I have just escaped from a physician and a fever which confined me five days to bed, you wont expect much “allegrezza” in the ensuing letter."

Physician to Byron

poet and novelist

Reverend, English Chaplain in Holland

Writer, editor of Byron's early poetry. Byron gave him the copyrights to the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and The Corsair, in addition to a series of letters written to his mother during his eastern travels.

Playwright and politician

the only son of the Irish playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the soprano Elizabeth Ann Linley, politician

Poet, critic, painter, landscape gardener. From the ODNB: "Poet, critic, and religious humanist, Pope was also a good conversationalist and letter writer, an influential garden designer, and a connoisseur of architecture and art."