Letters to George Glendining, Esq.

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Title: Letters to George Glendining, Esq.
Creator: Sligo, Howe Peter Browne, Marquess of, 1788-1845
Contributor: Byron, George Gordon Byron,--Baron,--1788-1824--Friends and associates
Glendining, George
Sligo, Howe Peter Browne,--Marquess of,--1788-1845
Published / Created: 1810 October-1810 December
Description: Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo (1788-1845) was educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he befriended Lord Byron. After succeeding to his father's title in 1809, in 1810-11 he toured the Mediterranean and the Levant, sending home over 1,000 archaelogical specimens from Morea and the Greek lslands. He was arrested on his return to Malta for "abducting" two Navy deserters who had captained his hired ship and later served four months in Newgate upon his conviction. In 1834-35 Sligo was Governor General of Jamaica and vigorously enforced the British decrees on the emancipation of slaves, later publishing "Jamaica under the Apprentice System, by a Proprietor" (1836).
Extent: 4 letters
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: OSB MSS 74
Collection Title: Marquess of Sligo letters
Collection/Other Creator: Sligo, Howe Peter Browne, Marquess of, 1788-1845
Collection Date: 1810 Aug-Dec.
Collection Note: The collection contains nineteen letters written by the Marquess of Sligo during his travels in Greece and Asia Minor. Subjects include his planned itineraries; travel expenses; his elaborate entertainment by Veli Pasha; impressions of and experiences with Lord Byron and Lady Hester Stanhope; his shipment of "vases and other treasures" home to Ireland from digs in Greece; and his dislike of Constantinople. Other comments concern remittances from home and his thoughts on better estate management.
Container / Volume: Box 1 | Folder 4

Format: mixed material
Genre: Correspondence
Subject (Geographic): Greece--Description and travel
Greece--History--1453-1821
Istanbul (Turkey)--Description and travel
Mediterranean Region--Description and travel
Turkey--Description and travel
Turkey--History--1683-1829
Subject (Name): Byron, George Gordon Byron,--Baron,--1788-1824--Friends and associates
Glendining, George
Sligo, Howe Peter Browne,--Marquess of,--1788-1845
Subject (Topic): Classical antiquities--Collectors and collecting--Mediterranean region
Grand tours (Education)
Pashas
Travelers' writings, English

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Citation: Marquess of Sligo Letters. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.