Collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron : primarily England, 1664-1861.

Collection includes the following items in the first volume (MA 1293): three autograph letters signed from Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, Byron's childhood friend, to Kaye Dowland (MA 1293.1-3); various signatures and address panels in (or purported to be in) Byron's hand (MA 1293.4-8); address panels and an autograph letter signed by William King-Noel, Earl of Lovelace (MA 1293.9-11); an autograph letter signed from John Shaw to Thomas Wildman (MA 1293.12); an autograph letter signed from J.T. Becher to Kaye Dowland (MA 1293.13); three autograph letters signed from Thomas Wildman to Kaye Dowland (MA 1293.14-16); two autograph letters signed from Louisa Wildman to Sophia Hyatt (MA 1293.17) and Kaye Dowland (MA 1293.18); an autograph letter signed from a Miss Preisig to Kaye Dowland (MA 1293.19); a printed prospectus for the sale by auction of Newstead Abbey in 1812 (MA 1293.20); a first edition of Byron's The Prophecy of Dante (cut apart and inlaid into larger pages, MA 1293.21); various photographs, plans, and engravings of Newstead Abbey (MA 1293.22-30); engravings of George Gordon Byron (MA 1293.31, 35-37); engravings of Harrow School (MA 1293.32-33); a photograph of Elizabeth Bridget Pigot (MA 1293.34); engravings of Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron (MA 1293.38-39); and engravings of Ada King Lovelace as a child (MA 1293.40-41). Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 1293.1-41 for details.
Collection includes the following items in the second volume (MA 1294): autograph letters signed, autograph address panels signed, documents and fragments of documents signed and signatures to manuscript letters and documents by members of the Byron family including Lord William Byron (MA 1294.4), Lord George Anson (MA 1294.6), Katherine Byron (MA 1294.1), Sophia Byron (MA 1294.10,.19, .20, .50), John Byron (1723-1786) (MA 1294.5, .11-13, .15-17 and .25), George Anson Byron (1758-1793) (MA 1294.14), John Byron (1756-1791) (MA 1294.18, .21, .22), Captain Richard Byron (MA 1294.2), William J. Byron (MA 1294.24), George Gordon Byron (MA 1294.29), Anna Biron (MA 1294.3), Juliana Maria Charlotte Byron (MA 1294.30, .31, .36), George Anson Byron (1789-1868) (MA 1294.32, .42, .44, .51), Elizabeth Mary Chandos-Pole Byron (MA 1294.38); autograph letters signed, documents and autograph address panels of persons related to the collection including the Earl of Northington (MA 1294.8), Robert Peel (MA 1294.39), John Hewett (MA 1294.23), Richard Kaye (MA 1294.26), Henry Kirke White (MA 1294.27, .49), John Sibley (MA 1294.28), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (MA 1294.33), William Gell (MA 1294.35, .41), Benjamin Hobhouse (MA 1294.37), Henry Lytton Bulwer (MA 1294.40), Lord Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse (MA 1294.43, .45, .48), Amelia Parry Hobhouse (MA 1294.46) and the Marquess of Sligo (MA 1294.47).