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John Cam Hobhouse's step-mother

Byron to John Hanson, November 24th 1809:
(Source: text from B.L.Egerton 2611 ff.159-61; BLJ I 233-4)
Visited 1809-11-24 to JoHanson. 1810-05-03 to HeDrury.. Also known as the Gulf of Arta or the Gulf of Actium,
and in some official documents as…

An Ottoman Albanian ruler (pasha) of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire's European territory which was also called Pashalik of Yanina. (Wiki)

"Ali’s letter, part threat, part appeal, shows the perpetual insecurity in which he lived, and the political reality which, unknown as it seems to Byron and Hobhouse, lay beneath his friendly welcome in October 1809." [PSC]

Mentioned by Hobhouse to Byron 1810-08-15

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I have not yet been to Africa, the wind is contrary, but I dined yesterday at Algesiras with Lady Westmoreland where I met General Castanos the celebrated Spanish leader in the late & present war…

Mentioned in 1810-04-17 to CaByron. The site of an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos, modern Bozcaada. Wiki

Poet, critic, painter, landscape gardener. From the ODNB: "Poet, critic, and religious humanist, Pope was also a good conversationalist and letter writer, an influential garden designer, and a connoisseur of architecture and art."

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Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I sent my baggage & part of the servants by sea to Gibraltar, and travelled on horseback from Aldea Gallega (the first stage from Lisbon which is only accessible by water) to Seville (one of the…