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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 Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "Near {Cintra] about 10 miles to the right is the palace of Mafra the boast of Portugal, as it might be of any country, in point of magnificence without elegance, there is a convent annexed, the…

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, November 12th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 246-57; QI 58-63; BLJ I 226-31)

the prophet and founder of Islam

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-07-29 and visited.

Hanson's man at Farleigh. See 1811-01-18

Named as visited by Byron in 1810-09-25 to JoHobhouse. A city in ancient Greece that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history. "Mantinea was an ancient town in Arcadia not far from the modern Tripolis (Tripolitza). The…

Visited as of 1810-05-03. A town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians. The
tumulus or burial mound, also called the "Soros," for the 192 Athenian dead that…

see 1810-10 MaPigot to CaByron; Byron to MaPigot 1811-10-28. Elizabeth's mother.

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, September 15th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 243-6; QI 56-7; BLJ I 223-4)