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| Boatswain's Memorial at Newstead Abbey, when it opens again next year I'll go and take a colour photo but till then... |
| "Boatswain is dead! he expired in a state of madness on the 10th. after suffering much, yet retaining all the gentleness of his nature to the last" - Byron Nov 18th 1808 |
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| An older Mary Chaworth who re-entered Byron's life at this time, having been married in the meantime. "I was seated near a woman, to whom when a boy I was much attached as boys generally are, and more than a man should be...I forgot my valour and my nonchalance, and never opened my lips even to laugh, far les to speak, & the Lady was almost as absurd as myself" - Byron Nov 3rd 1808 See also, ''Well! Thou art Happy', and 'To a Lady on Being Asked My Reason for Quitting England'. |