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Places mentioned B's Med Letters. A place and rhyme word in the Lisbon Packet, 1809-06-30 Byron to FrHodgson
Francis Hodgson
Byron's friend
Falmouth
B's point of departure
Pendele. The Monastery of Pendele and Mount Pentelicus.
Pendele 10 April 1810 to JoHobhouse 38.05 23.866667
Named as the the place of first of 200 plen opCs 1810-10-04 Byron to Hobhouse. BLJ 2-23n
Named as the the place of first of 200 plen opCs 1810-10-04 Byron to Hobhouse. BLJ 2-23n
Ithaca
B to Hobhouse 4 April 1810 JoHobhouse
Named by Byron in 1809-09-29 to JoHanson. In 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse: "I have some idea of purchasing the Island of Ithaca, I suppose you will add me to the Levant Lunatics."
Named by Byron in 1809-09-29 to JoHanson. In 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse: "I have some idea of purchasing the Island of Ithaca, I suppose you will add me to the Levant Lunatics."
Byron to John Hanson, from Athens, February 28th 1811 (70)
"An opportunity occurring I write to mention that having received a firman for Ægypt &c. I shall proceed to that quarter in the spring."
Byron to John Hanson, from Athens, February 1st 1811 (64)
"As I have just received a firman from the Porte enabling me to proceed to Ægypt & Syria I shall not return to England before I have seen Jerusalem & Grand Cairo."
Charles Skinner Matthews to Byron, from London, June 30th 1809
Matthews' fulsome response to the coded style of Byron's letter of 22 June 1809.
The Marquis of Sligo to Byron, from Constantinople, December 10th 1810
"I take the opportunity of sending this letter & your Ferman1 by a boat which will convey to Athens a bevy of my servants coming to carry off all my clothes vases &c which I left at that place when I came up here."