Collection of letters and documents concerning Byron and Medora Leigh : London and other locations, 1785-1870.

Items in the collection include: autograph letter signed from Richard Bentley to Charles Mackay; seven autograph letters signed from Thomas Smith to Charles Mackay; an autograph letter signed from John Paget to Charles Mackay; an autograph letter signed from Thomas Noel Wentworth to [Rev. Thomas Hooke?]; an autograph letter signed from Stephen Lushington to Thomas Smith; Thomas Smith's Memorandum of conversations with Dr. Lushington, 1843 July 21; two autograph letters signed from Sir George Stephen to Thomas Smith; an autograph letter signed from Thomas Smith to Sir George Stephen; Medora Leigh's autograph manuscript signed of her autobiography; three autograph letters signed from Joseph Barrallier to Thomas Smith of Barron & Smith, army agents (one addressed to Barron); a copy of a letter from Medora Leigh to the Duke of Leeds; four autograph letters signed from Medora Leigh to William Osborne, D'Arcy Osborne, Augusta Leigh, and Thomas Smith; Thomas Smith's autograph manuscript of conversations with Lord Byron in 1823; an autograph letter signed "M.M." from Thomas Smith to the editor of the Times; and two autograph letters signed from Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley of Kidderminster, to Augusta Leigh. Items are described in 29 separate records; see MA 55.1-29 for more information.