John William Polidori

(1795-1821)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Polidori, John William, 1795-1821 DNB: Polidori, John William (1795-1821), physician and writer LBT ID: JoPolid1821 VIAF ID: 32079702 LOC ID: n50020458	B/BAP: 1795-09-07 DIED: 1821-08-24
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Physician and secretary to Lord Byron who accompanied him to Switzerland; author of The Vampire (1819) which he attributed to Byron.
REFERENCES TO John William Polidori: Lord Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1816 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 1 November 1816 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to John Murray, 24 January 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 11 April 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 14 April 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 14 April 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to John Murray, 30 May 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 17 June 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 John Murray to Lord Byron, 5 August 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 21 August 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 15 November 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 15 May 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 5 Lord Byron to John Murray, 25 May 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron at home; recollections of Swiss society; on duelling Found 2: ¶ 15 ¶ 17 On the drama; on superstition Found 2: ¶ 27 ¶ 28 Lady Caroline Lamb Found 1: ¶ 3 [Sir John Stoddart], “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Times (27 October 1824) Found 1: ¶ 39 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 124 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXXII Found 1: ¶ 2 Anecdotes of Lord Byron Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1816 (I) Found 1: ¶ 48 Life of Byron: 1816 (II) Found 12: ¶ 69 ¶ 76 ¶ 77 ¶ 78 ¶ 79 ¶ 82 ¶ 83 ¶ 84 ¶ 91 ¶ 93 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Life of Byron: 1817 Life of Byron: 1819 “Byron’s Memoirs” in Monthly Magazine NS XI (February 1831) 145-59 Found 1: ¶ 18 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (1 January 1831) 3-5 Found 2: ¶ 24 ¶ 25 [William Maginn?], “Byron's Last Biographer” in New Monthly Magazine 31 (February 1831) 159-64 Found 1: ¶ 7 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c. [Concluded]” in Literary Gazette (11 February 1832) 88-89 Found 1: ¶ n4 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Alastor; Geneva: 1816 Found 8: ¶ 8 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 Byron and Claire Found 1: ¶ 14 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XV. Chap. XXII. Found 1: ¶ 15