Letters and Journals of Lord Byron
Lord Byron to Col. Leicester Stanhope, 19 March 1824
“Misso1onghi, 19th March, 1824.
“Prince Mavrocordato
and myself will go to Salona to meet Ulysses, and you may be very
sure that P. M. will accept any proposition for the advantage of Greece. Parry is to answer for himself on his own articles*; if
I were to interfere with him, it would only stop the whole progress of his exertion, and
he is really doing all that can be done without more aid from the Government.
“What can be spared will be sent; but I refer you to
Captain Humphries’s report, and to Count Gamba’s letter for details upon all
subjects.
“In the hope of seeing you soon, and deferring much that
will be to be said till then,
“Believe me ever, &c.
“P.S. Your two letters (to me) are sent to Mr. Barff, as you desire. Pray remember me
particularly to Trelawney, whom I shall be
very much pleased to see again.”
Samuel Barff (1793-1880)
Merchant and banker at Zante from 1816 who worked with George Finlay to establish a
banking system in Greece.
Pietro Gamba (1801-1827)
The brother of Teresa Guiccioli and member of Carbonieri. He followed Byron to Greece and
left a memoir of his experiences.
Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos [Αλεξανδρος Μαβροκορδατος] (1791-1865)
Greek statesman and diplomat with Byron at Missolonghi; after study at the University of
Padua he joined the Greek Revolution in 1821 and in 1822 was elected by the National
Assembly at Epidaurus. He commanded forces in western Central Greece and retired in 1826
after the Fall of Messolonghi.
William Parry (1773-1859)
Military engineer at Missolonghi; he was author of
The Last Days of
Lord Byron (1825).
Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope, fifth earl of Harrington (1784-1862)
The third son of the third earl; in 1823 he traveled to Greece as the Commissioner of the
London Greek Committee; there he served with Byron, whom he criticizes in
Greece in 1823 and 1824 (1824). He inherited the earldom from his brother in
1851.
Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881)
Writer, adventurer, and friend of Shelley and Byron; author of the fictionalized memoirs,
Adventures of a Younger Son (1831) and
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858).
