John diligently cared for his Byron’s health, deviating between soothing and stimulating his tired and anxious mind. As for the flurry of social solicitations, despite gently rebuffing them, he was still dizzy with such close association with his patron’s fame or infamy. It was thrilling to realize that with his youth and good looks, together with his lordship’s prestige, the double doors of grand drawing rooms of London were flung open wide for him.
There was a bonus beyond the material and frivolous as this good will extended to professional courtesies from well-known London doctors and men of science. John knew such interest would never have happened without the backing of Byron’s name.
His thesis on sleepwalking was much discussed at such meetings with medical grandees. One or two of
