Collection of autograph letters signed : England, Greece, Italy, etc., to various recipients, 1805-1839 1805-1824.

Collection includes nineteen autograph letters signed to his mother, Catherine Gordon Byron (MA 62.1-19); two autograph letters signed to his half-sister, Augusta Leigh (MA 62.20-.21); a receipt signed and an autograph letter signed to John Hanson (MA 62.22 and MA 62.27); three autograph letters signed to John Ridge (MA 62.23-.25); four autograph letters signed to James Cawthorn (MA 62.29, MA 62.31, MA 62.33, and MA 62.40); three autograph letters signed to John Murray (MA 62.36, MA 62.39, and MA 62.46); two autograph letters signed to Douglas Kinnaird (MA 62.43 and MA 62.47); two autograph letters signed to Richard Belgrave Hoppner (MA 62.44-.45); and autograph letters signed to Rev. John Becher (MA 62.26), Stratford Canning (MA 62.30), Francis Hodgson (MA 62.32), G. Walleden (MA 62.34), J. Thomson (MA 62.35), Thomas Phillips (MA 62.37), Thomas Dibdin (MA 62.42), Mary Shelley (MA 62.49), John Hunt (MA 62.50), the Countess of Jersey (MA 62.51), Lord Sydney Osborne (MA 62.52), Robert Charles Dallas (MA 62.53), and Lady Melbourne (MA 62.55). The collection also includes two autograph fragments by Byron (one, MA 62.54, in Italian; the other, MA 62.58, in French); two autograph letters signed from John Cam Hobhouse (MA 62.56 to Sir Charles Forbes, and MA 62.57 to Baroness [Fenyesessey?]), and a forged Byron letter written by Major George Gordon Byron (MA 62.41). See individual records (MA 62.1-58) for more information about items in the collection.