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Byron to Hobhouse 1810-10-04.

Byron's new "Tartar" at the Capuchin Convent

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)
Named and visited by Byron 1809-11-12. Byron specifies on the coast; geo coor are inland.

Byron never made the journey to Cairo for which this introductory letter was intended. [PSC]

Suleiman Aga seems to have lent Byron some money. Byron purchased some guns and a gold watch (the watch cost £31.10s) in London in 1813, in preparation for a Levantine journey that never transpired; so Suleiman Aga may have waited in vain. [PSC]

A Waywode (“Voyevode”) was a Turkish governor

Mentioned by GeForesti in 1810-01-05 and see BJL 3-160n with reference to Byron to AnMilbanke 17 Nov 1813. 1810-10-13:
"Stratford Canning, cousin of the statesman George Canning, had been first secretary of the British Embassy in Constantinople…

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... I am to have the house for a few days of one of their great men, which was intended for Lady W[estmoreland], whose health will not permit her to cross the Straits. –"

Istanbul, rather than Constantinople, which Byron calls "Stamboul" in 1810-05-05. Deathplace of Claude Alexandre de Bonneval

1810-06-28 Byron makes light of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's praise of St Paul's over St Sophia's.