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In the former Capuchin Covent, Byron to Hobhouse 1810-08-23

Named as will visit in 1810-08-16 to JoHobhouse. The capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece and capital of the Larissa regional unit.

HoBrowne writes Byron from "Lazaretto" 1811-06-01

a young man from Abydos

Scrope Berdmore Davies' residence while in London

Named as will visit and will jump form the promontory 1810-06-17. A Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of
Greece, also known by the name Santo Maura. The myth about Sappho's suicide at Cape Lefkada is related to other myths linking…

Named by Byron in 1810-07-31. Wikipedia: also known as the Eastern Mediterranean, is a geographic and cultural region
consisting of the eastern Mediterranean littoral between Anatolia and Egypt. The Levant today consists of Cyprus,
Lebanon,…

"But then [Hobhouse] has had a letter from a Lincoln’s Inn Bencher full of praise of his harpings, and vituperation of the other contributions to his Missellingany, which that sagacious person is pleased to say must have been put in as FOILS…

Place names in B's Med Letters

Byron mentions the Lissa Prizes to Hobhouse while travelling with Capt Hornby on the Volage Frigate, 1811-06-19