Lord Byron's Letters and Journals
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1 BYRON’S CORRESPONDENCE AND JOURNALS 02: FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN, JULY 1809-JULY 1811 Edited by Peter Cochran Work in progress, with frequent updates [indicated]. Letters not in the seventeen main files may be found in those containing the correspondences Byron / Annabella, Byron / Murray, Byron / Hobhouse, Byron / Moore, Byron / Scott, Byron / The Shelleys, or Byron / Hoppner. UPDATED July 5th 2010. Abbreviations B.: Byron; H.: Hobhouse 1922: Lord Byron’s Correspondence Chiefly with Lady Melbourne, Mr Hobhouse, The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, and P.B.Shelley (2 vols., John Murray 1922). BB: Byron’s Bulldog: The Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron, ed. Peter W.Graham (Columbus Ohio 1984) BLJ: Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand, 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94. LJ: The Works of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals. Ed. R. E. Prothero, 6 vols. London: John Murray, 1899-1904. Q: Byron: A Self-Portrait; Letters and Diaries 1798 to 1824. Ed. Peter Quennell, 2 vols, John Murray, 1950. I am very grateful to John and Virginia Murray for permission to quote texts from Byron’s Letters and Journals, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (John Murray 1973-1994). NLS: National Library of Scotland. Codes: Names of writer and recipient are in bold type, with location from which sent, and date. (Source is given in round brackets beneath the title: “text from” indicates that the actual source has been seen. For “LJ”, “1922”, and “BLJ”, see above). Where the manuscript is the source, the text is left-justified only. Where the source is a book, the text is left- and right-justified. [The address, if there is one, is given in square brackets beneath the source] “1:2” and so on indicates a page-turn on the bifolium. “1:2 and 1:3 blank” shows that not all the paper has been used. If Byron goes on to a second bifolium, or a second sheet, it’s an occasion. The address, if there is no envelope, is normally in the centre of 1:4. <Authorial deletion> <xxxxx> Irrecoverable authorial deletion <deleted> Infra-red and ultra-violet might reveal something interesting {Interlineated word or phrase} E[ditoria]l A[dditio]n [ ] Illegible Hyphens: where Byron has split a word over two sides, and used a double hyphen, the effect has been re= / =tained. But, as the text is not transcribed on a line-for-line basis (except in the case of Susan Vaughan’s letters (for reasons explained at January 12th 1812), hyphens are not used when he splits a word over two lines. See April 3rd 1819 for another letter transcribed line-for-line. Underlining: sometimes Byron underlines a whole word, sometimes single syllables (for comical effect, as in “Quarterlyers”), sometimes an entire phrase, and sometimes part of a word (from haste). In all cases except the last, where the whole word is underlined, we have tried to keep to his usage, underlining with a single understroke, with two understrokes, with a heavy underlining, or with a decorative line. 2 Signatures: As time goes on, Byron’s signature becomes less careful, but then recovers. Few of his ways of signing off can be conveyed in print. “Byron” indicates a word whose second syllable is both underlined and overlined. “BN” indicates those two letters with different degrees of dash-decoration around them. Sometimes they appear Greek. “[swirl signature]” indicates a bird’s-nest effect which can with charity be read as a capital “B”. “[scrawl]” is a long wavy line, often starting as “yrs” but with no other letters decipherable. After the death of Lady Noel, Byron regains pride in his name, and often signs “N. B.” with a decorative underlining. Byron’s Most Important Correspondents in this Section Ali Pacha (1741-1822: not a correspondent), ruler of Albania in the name of Turkey Augusta Byron, later Augusta Leigh (1783-1851), Byron’s half-sister; the most important woman in his life Catherine Gordon Byron (1765-1811), Byron’s mother Charles Skinner Matthews (17??-1811), gay Cambridge friend of Byron Constance Spencer Smith (17??-18??) the “Florence” of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Francis Hodgson (1781-1852), Cambridge friend of Byron Henry Drury (1778-1841), another Harrow friend of Byron John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), Byron’s close friend and travelling companion; during this section his family have no idea where he is John Hanson (1755-1841), Byron’s solicitor and surrogate father Robert Charles Dallas (1754-1824), Byron’s early literary adviser, who introduces him to John Murray in Section 03 Scrope Berdmore Davies (1782-1852), close Cambridge friend of Byron who has lent him money for his Mediterranean travels and is now regretting it William Martin Leake (1777-1860), English Consul at Ioannina The Marquis of Sligo (1788-1845), Cambridge friend of Byron, who is also travelling in the Levant; he shares with Michael Bruce the favours of Lady Hester Stanhope INDEX: 112 letters. Charles Skinner Matthews to Byron, from London, June 30th 1809 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from off Falmouth, Cornwall, June 30th 1809 John Cam Hobhouse to Charles Skinner Matthews, from Lisbon, July 8th 1809 Byron to John Hanson, from Lisbon, July 13th 1809 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Lisbon, July 16th 1809 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Gibraltar, August 6th 1809 Byron to John Hanson, from Gibraltar, August 7th 1809 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Gibraltar, August 11th 1809 Byron to John Hanson, from Gibraltar, August 13th 1809 Byron to Mr Rushton, from Gibraltar, August 14th 1809 Byron to Mr Rushton, from Gibraltar, August 14th 1809 Byron to John Hanson, from Malta, August 31st 1809 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Malta, September 15th 1809 Byron to Captain Cary, from Malta, September 18th 1809 C.S.Matthews to J.C.Hobhouse, September 25th 1809 Byron to John Hanson, from Prevesa, September 29th 1809 Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead, October 4th 1809 From Hobhouse’s diary, Tuesday October 31st 1809 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Prevesa, November 12th 1809 Byron to John Hanson, from Prevesa, November 12th 1809 Byron to John Hanson, from Patras, November 24th 1809 1810 3 Thomas Moore to Byron, from 22 Molesworth Street, Dublin, January 1st 1810 George Foresti to Hudson Lowe, from Premeti, January 5th 1810 Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead, February 3rd 1810 Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead, February 5th 1810 Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead, February 10th 1810 Byron to John Hanson, from Athens, March 3rd 1810 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Smyrna, March 19th 1810 Ali Pacha to William Martin Leake, March 27th 1810 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Smyrna, April 10th 1810 Byron to John Hanson, from Smyrna, April 10th 1810 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, Dardanelles, April 17th 1810 Byron to Henry Drury, from the Salsette, off the Dardanelles, May 3rd 1810 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from the Salsette, May 5th 1810 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Constantinople, May 18th 1810 Byron to John Hanson, from Constantinople, May 23rd 1810 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Constantinople, May 24th 1810 Byron to Captain Walter Bathurst, from Pera, May 29th 1810 Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead, June 11th 1810 Byron to John Hanson, from Constantinople, June 15th 1810 Byron to Henry Drury, from Constantinople, June 17th 1810 Byron to an unknown “Doctor”, from Constantinople, June 20th 1810 Byron to R.C.Dallas, from Constantinople, June 23rd 1810 Robert Adair to Byron, from Pera, Constantinople, July 4th 1810 Mrs Pigot to Mrs Byron, from Southwell before October 1810 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Constantinople, June 28th 1810 Byron to John Hanson, from Constantinople, June 30th 1810 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Constantinople, July 4th 1810 Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, mid-July 1810 Scrope Berdmore Davies to Byron, July 17th 1810 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Athens, July 20th 1810 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Patras, July 29th 1810 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Patras, July 30th 1810 John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, from Malta, July 31st 1810 Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, from Patras, July 31st 1810 The Marquis of Sligo to the Marchioness of Sligo, from Tripolitza, August 3rd 1810 Elizabeth Massingberd to John Hanson, August 9th 1810 John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, from Cagliari, August 15th 1810 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Tripolitza, August 16th 1810 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Athens, August 23rd 1810 John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, at sea, August 16th–24th 1810 Catherine Gordon Byron to John Hanson, from Newstead, September 9th 1810 The Marquis of Sligo to the Marchioness of Sligo, from Athens, September 15th 1810 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Patras, September 25th 1810 Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, from Patras, October 2nd 1810 Byron to John Hanson, from Patras, October 2nd 1810 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Patras, October 4th 1810 John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, from Cadiz, October 6th 1810 John Cam Hobhouse to Charles Skinner Matthews, from The White Lion, Bath, October 21st 1810 Byron to John Hanson, from Athens, November 4th 1810 The Marquis of Sligo to Byron, from Constantinople, November 5th 1810 Byron to John Hanson, from Athens, November 11th 1810 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Athens, November 12th 1810 Byron to Francis Hodgson, from Athens, November 14th 1810 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Athens, November 26th 1810 Constance Spencer Smith to Byron, from Malta, November 12th 1810 John Cam Hobhouse to Byron, from Chepstow, December