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Thomas Moore is referenced as Byron's friend 'the poet, who will be the first to write his biography,' to whom Byron confides about his 'far more serious and entirely new scrape' — his incestuous affair with Augusta. Moore's biography is implicitly one of the key primary sources for the episode's narrative.

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Described as 'the first biography that is written of Byron by a friend of Byron's called Thomas Moore, who is also a poet.' This biography is quoted regarding Byron's preference for solitude.