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Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "You will not expect a long letter after my riding so far ‘on hollow pampered jades of Asia.’ Talking of Asia puts me in mind of Africa, which is within five miles of my present residence."

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "Talking of Asia puts me in mind of Africa, which is within five miles of my present residence. I am going over before I go on to Constantinople."
Byron says that he has visited Africa in 1810-07-20 to…

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "* * * Cadiz is a complete Cythera."

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "* * * Cadiz is a complete Cythera. Many of the grandees who have left Madrid during the troubles reside there, and I do believe it is the prettiest and cleanest town in Europe."
Deathplace of Cervantes and…

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "My next epistle shall be from Mount Caucasus or Mount Sion."
See as well: London Journal Monday, Dec 6, 1813. A region at the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black
and the Caspian Seas.…

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "My next epistle shall be from Mount Caucasus or Mount Sion."
Mentioned by Byron in 1811-02-01.

Classical scholar, son of the Revd Joseph Drury (1751–1834). "Headmaster of Harrow School 1785-1805)."
Garrett, Martin. The Palgrave Dictionary of Byron. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, 91.
Henry Drury was Byron’s…

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "I have seen Sir John Carr at Seville and Cadiz, and, like Swift’s barber, have been down on my knees to beg he would not put me into black and white."

Byron to John Hanson, August 7th 1809: "I passed some French prisoners on the road from Badajoz to Seville, and saw a spy who was condemned to be shot ..."

"I have been so much occupied since my departure from England that till I could address you a little at length, I have forborn writing altogether."