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"I am very happy to hear that you have been so well amused in Greece; and your plans for the future are so promising that I have no doubt your amusement will be progressive."

Matthews' fulsome response to the coded style of Byron's letter of 22 June 1809.

Byron's Cambridge friend. First elected fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.

Mentioned by Hobhouse in 1810-08-16 and by Byron in 1810-11-26. See 1810-11-26 to Hobhouse. "Charles Robert Cockerell (1788—1863), an architect who later achieved renown, was starting on a course of professional studies by exploring…

One of John Hanson's three sons. Mentioned by Byron in 1809-01-15 to JoHanson and 1810-05-23. See as well BLJ I-51n.

Named as visited by Byron to HeDrury 1810-05-03. The name of the northwestern part of Epirus, the homeland of the Greek tribe of the Chaonians. Its main town was called Phoenice. According to Virgil, Chaon was the eponymous ancestor of the Chaonians.…

"Mr Bolton informs me that if Mr Hanson had accepted the bills he would have saved a poor Man, his Wife, and eight children, from ruin, ..."

More money worries

Catherine Byron's business correspondence with John Hanson, with regard to the Sanders portrait of Byron.

Very detailed money matters