Writer, editor of Byron's early poetry. Byron gave him the copyrights to the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and The Corsair, in addition to a series of letters written to his mother during his eastern travels.
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... Joe Murray delivers this, I have sent him & the boy back, pray shew the lad any kindness as he is my great favourite, I would have taken him on ..."
See CaByron to Byron 1808-05-23. The site of Byron's coal holdings, which he tried to sell. "Byron inherited land here with his title in 1798, but the leasehold -- and with it the valuable right to mine coal -- had been sold (illegally) by…
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)
Visited see 1809-11-12. Salora was a barrack 12 miles distant from Prevesa by water on the…