BIB_ID
137281
Accession number
MA 55.27
Creator
Smith, Thomas, active 1843-1869.
Display Date
1869 Sept. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 33.1 cm
Notes
At top of page: "Yet more of the Bryon mystery."
Originally signed "A.B." This is crossed out and replaced by "M.M." The letter is in the hand of Thomas Smith.
Part of a collection of letters and documents related to Medora Leigh. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see collection record for MA 55 for more information.
Originally signed "A.B." This is crossed out and replaced by "M.M." The letter is in the hand of Thomas Smith.
Part of a collection of letters and documents related to Medora Leigh. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see collection record for MA 55 for more information.
Summary
Refuting Harriet Beecher Stowe's account of Lady Byron's tenderness towards Medora Leigh, and appending a list of noble and prominent Englishmen who [in 1843] knew the "damning secret" of Byron's paternity of Miss Leigh.
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