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Letter from Missolonghi. "I feel," wrote Byron's better self, "and I feel it bitterly, that a man should not consume his life at the side and on the bosom of a woman, and a stranger . . . But I have neither the strength of mind to break my chain, nor the insensibility which would deaden its weight...
...Franciscans, strolling through roomfuls of top-flight Delacroix, Corots, Daumiers, Gauguins, Cezannes, van Goghs, Matisses, Braques, Tanguys, recognized many famed pictures (Ingres' Turkish Bath, Millet's Shepherdess Tending her Flock, Gérard's Madame Recamier, Delacroix's Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi}. Meanwhile gallery directors all over the U. S. tumbled over themselves to negotiate with Director Heil for a loan of his big French show after San Francisco is through with...
Trelawny and Byron decided to liberate Greece. But when Byron died at Missolonghi, Trelawny was not with him. He had met another "glorious being," a patriotic Greek outlaw named Odysseus, "a Bolivar who might become a Washington." They hunted bears and Turks together. Soon Trelawny (in a Greek kilt) was living with the Odysseus family in their mountain cave, had married Odysseus' half sister. But she was too fond of European fashions, and they parted. "Marriage," wrote Trelawny, "is a most unnatural state of things...
When Byron died of fever at Missolonghi, he left behind not only his great-lover reputation, but a plain, square, tin box with part of the evidence. In it were three dark red braids contributed by the "Maid of Athens," Theresa Macri and her sisters; a ringlet of Lady Oxford's, and several bundles of adoring letters from women who worshiped Byron, some of whom had never seen him. Most were wildly exclamatory, heavily underlined with pages blotted and blistered with tears. Byron did not answer all the letters. Even those he promised to destroy he kept, since...
Three years after Lord Byron died at Missolonghi muttering "Courage!" to imagined troops, the romantic Greek rebellion against the Turks still flickered in Attica, still held the sympathies of many a U. S. and English citizen. On July 19, 1827, for instance, the U. S. frigate Constitution anchored in the Straits of Salamis and quietly and unofficially sent ashore a boatload of provisions to Greek revolutionaries hiding on the small island of Psyttaleia. Before Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson could sail away, however, he was persuaded by the Greeks to buy a huge mutilated statue of great antiquity which had been...