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Being, like many others, bearers of a letter of recommendation from the London Greek Committee to Lord Byron — who, as we were informed, was on the eve of his departure for Greece — we hastened [in November 1823] to Argostoli, whence we forwarded it to Metaxata,1 a village at a few miles’ distance, in which, since his arrival in Cephalonia, he had taken up his abode.
Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece with Various Anecdotes of Lord Byron and an Account of his Last Illness and Death (London: Murray, 1831) pp. 1–16, 116–20.
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Major William Parry was sent out to Greece by the Greek Committee in London, and arrived in Missolonghi on 7 February 1824. He lived in the same house as Byron, became a congenial drinking-companion, and saw him constantly during the last ten weeks of his life. According to Trelawny, Parry had ‘a fund of pot-house stories’. Byron described him as ‘a fine rough subject’ and ‘a sort of hardworking Hercules’. His The Last Days of Lord Byron (1825) contains a harrowing account of Byron’s final sufferings. ( It has been suggested that his book was ‘ghosted’ by Thomas Hodgskin.) See also p. 155.
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Millingen, J. (1985). In Greece. In: Page, N. (eds) Byron. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06632-2_40
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