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His Masters
Reflection

Travels with John Polidori,
Lord Byrons Doctor and
Author of The Vampyre

Photo reproduction of a print after a portrait of Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips, anonymous, after Thomas Phillips, c. 1870, Rijksmuseum

His Masters
Reflection

Travels with John Polidori,
Lord Byrons Doctor and
Author of The Vampyre

ANDREW AND SUZANNE EDWARDS

Copyright Andrew Edwards and Suzanne Edwards, 2019.

Published in the Sussex Academic e-Library, 2018

SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS

PO Box 139, Eastbourne BN24 9BP, UK

Distributed worldwide by

Independent Publishers Group (IPG)

814 N. Franklin Street

Chicago, IL 60610, USA

ISBN 9781845199531 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781782845683 (EPub)

ISBN 9781782845690 (Kindle)

ISBN 9781782845706 (Pdf)

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

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Contents

The Illustrations

Map:Key locations in the travels of John Polidori

ONE

Starting OutThe High Road

TWO

The Low CountriesFlemish Faces

THREE

The RhineSeduced by Loreley

FOUR

SwitzerlandThe Summer of Creation

FIVE

ItalyThe Austrian Soldiers Hat

SIX

The ReturnDippels Acid

Bibliography

Index

The Illustrations

The cover illustrations are detailed on the back cover.

Frontispiece: Photo reproduction of a print after a portrait of Lord Byron by Thomas Phillips, c. 1870, (anonymous, Rijksmuseum)

Former Polidori residence, 38 Great Pulteney Street, London, (S. Edwards).

St Marys Church, Dover, (A. Edwards).

Edinburgh Rooftops, (Lino9999, Pixabay).

The anatomical lesson of Nicolaes Tulp, Johannes Pieter de Frey, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1798, (Rijksmuseum).

The Dijver, Bruges, (S. Edwards).

The Ghent Altarpiece by the van Eyck Brothers in St Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, Pierre Franois De Noter, 1829, (Rijksmuseum).

Antwerp Cathedral, (Juulz Grand, Pixabay).

Battlefield of Waterloo, H. Grard (possibly), 1842, (Rijksmuseum).

Drachenfels near Knigswinter, (Ricco Stange, Pixabay).

Castle Frankenstein, Burg Frankenstein, (Lapping, Pixabay).

The Rhine at Bingen, (A. Edwards).

The tomb of General Lahmberg, Mainz Cathedral, (S. Edwards).

The Villa Diodati, Cologny, (A. Edwards).

Plaque commemorating Byron on the wall of the Villa Diodati, Cologny, (S. Edwards).

Stone commemorating the 100 year anniversary of Byrons death, Le Pr Byron, Cologny, (S. Edwards).

View of the Castle of Chillon, Jan Gerard Waldorp, after Michel Vincent Brandoin, 1792, (Rijksmuseum).

The Stockalper Palace, Brig, (S. Edwards).

The Semplon Pass, (R. Gerber, Pixabay).

Statue of Galvani, Piazza Luigi Galvani, Bologna, (S. Edwards).

The Lungarno, Pisa, (A. Edwards).

Costessey Hall c. 1850, Costessey, (photographer unknown, Wikipedia).

Costessey Hall outbuildings in ruin, (A. Edwards).

Cover of the book, Costumes of Italy, Switzerland and France, (A. Edwards from the British Library collection).

The Hardy Tree, St Pancras Old Church, London, (A. Edwards).

The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce copyright material as detailed in the above list. The publishers apologize for any errors or omissions in the above list and would be grateful to be notified of any corrections that should be incorporated in the next edition or reprint of this book.

Key locations in the travels of John Polidori

This book is dedicated to
Youth
&
With heartfelt thanks to Franklin Bishop

CHAPTER ONE

Starting Out
The High Road

The first effects were felt as far away as Borneo and Sulawesi with ash beginning to settle on the palms; a portentous precursor to the devastation that would follow. On the island of Sumbawa, Mount Tambora had finally given vent to the unsustainable pressure of magma hidden within its cavernous chambers. Thousands lost their lives in the immediate aftermath of the eruption whilst thousands more in the south-east Asian region would succumb to disease or starve as agricultural output withered to nothing.

Tamboras volcanic outburst in the April of 1815 was of such magnitude that the sheer volume of material hurled into the atmosphere inevitably found its way across continents, lingering in a malignant haze that turned day into night and the summer of 1816 into winter. European hearths were ablaze against the unworldly chill of the July darkness. Around a fireplace in Cologny, on the shores of Lake Geneva, five young friends who should have been strolling under the blanket of a warm alpine evening, were instead forced inside once more by the incessant rain.

Lord Byron stood by the fireside of his rented villa; inspired by the gloom, the poet turned to a book of German tales translated into the French they all understood. This Fantasmagoriana captivated his audience Claire Clairmont, his mistress, already enthralled by her lover, listened in restless awe, as the highly-strung Percy Bysshe Shelley, seated next to his future wife, Mary, became increasingly agitated. Byron then laid down a challenge that has passed into literary history: each of them was to write a ghost story.

Former Polidori residence, 38 Great Pulteney Street, London, S. Edwards

St Marys Church, Dover, A. Edwards

Edinburgh Rooftops, Lino9999, Pixabay

The anatomical lesson of Nicolaes Tulp, Johannes Pieter de Frey, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1798, Rijksmuseum

On the following evening, the aristocrat continued his readings with Coleridges poem,

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