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Poet, playwright, and critic

A Harrow friend of Byron's. Recorder for the Straits Settlements from 1825 to 1829

Byron's Cambridge friend, travelling companion and lifelong friend

"Since the long visit I paid you in Chancery Lane, I have heard three times from Lord Byron – ...."

"I do not loose a moment to inform you of my return to England ...."

Hothouse's gritty account of Lisbon

Hobhouse has kept a record of their expenditure abroad, Byron not. [PSC]

Hobhouse has written in every cranny of this sheet (40.4 x 32cm), including where the sealing- wax might, if ripped, destroy the text. [PSC]

Hobhouse requests Byron to forward the three or four boxes of marbles that he had forgotten under the influence of wine.

Hobhouse’s enthusiasm for the new Spanish parliament awakens nothing corresponding in Byron’s letters back. [PSC]