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Lady Hester Stanhope

Penelope Turson

Penelope Turson

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...Lady Hester Stanhope, who arrived in Istanbul in 1810, perpetuated the tradition of the well-connected, pre-Victorian, aristocratic traveller, elevating the role to new levels of eccentricity. Stanhope’s unconventional life has been...

[Letter to His Royal Highness, King George III of England.] The Palace of St Antonio, Island of Malta. 29th July.

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A letter documenting the initial stages of Lady Hester Stanhope's well-chronicled sojourn east, while her plans were yet in their infancy, it relates her motives for departure, offering a programmatic rationale for her eventual residence...

[Letter to Vicomte du Ponte]

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A short letter to the Vicomte du Ponte, addressing his anger toward her and expressing frustration that he was unavailable to receive her pleas for forgiveness in person. She also sends her commiserations over the fact that his horses have...

Hodoeporicon itineris Constantinopolitani / autore P. Rubigallo Pannonio, epigramma Philippi Melanth.

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Philipp Melanchthon

...A description of the journey of Paulus Rubigallus via Szeged, Belgrade, Sofia and Adrianople to Constantinople, including an epigram by Philipp Melanchthon. Rubigallus accompanied the Hungarian embassy of Stefan Verboczy and Johann Eszeki...

[Journal of Sir Charles Holloway, second-in-command of the British Military Mission to the Sublime Porte of Selim III, Sultan of Turkey, under the command of Brigadier General Koehler, the journal written daily commencing in London the 3rd December 1798, and ending in Constantinople, March 7th 1800].

Holloway, Charles, Sir

...A fascinating first-hand account of the progress of the British Military Mission to Turkey, the British Government's deputation consigned to intervene in the Ottoman Empire's war with Napoleon. Sir Charles Holloway was second-in-command...

Des coustumes & manieres de vivre des Turcs, faict premiereme[n]t en Latin par Christophle Richer vallet de chambre du roy treschrestien, Fra[n]cois premier de ce nom, & secretaire de son cha[n]cellier, & depuis par iceluy Richer traduict en langue Francoise, & dedie audict roy treschrestien.

Christophe Richer

...Christophe Richer (1513-52), valet du chambre to François I, and also secretary to Chancellor Poyet, is believed to have made a number of diplomatic missions to Turkey. Later he was French ambassador to Denmark and Sweden. This work...

Mémoires du Baron de Tott, sur les Turcs et les Tartares.

Tott, François, baron de

...First edition of this important memoir. A second edition was published in 1785 in quarto with sixteen engraved plates, apparently after de Tott's own drawings. The octavo edition, however, is not illustrated. A Hungarian by birth...

Memoires du Sieur de la Croix, cy-devant secretaire de l'ambassade de Constantinople : contenans diverses relations tres-curieuses de l'empire Othoman.

de La Croix

...De La Croix was secretary to the French Embassy to the Porte in the later seventeenth century. He lived in the Levant from 1670 to 1680, and may have been a relative of the Petis de la Croix. The Memoires include an account of Nointel...