BIB_ID
363191
Accession number
MA 51.13
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 Aug. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "Alexander Scott Esq. / aux soins du / Messrs Siri & Willhalm / Banquiers / Venezia."
High reserve.
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron to Alexander Scott from Ravenna in the summer of 1819. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron to Alexander Scott from Ravenna in the summer of 1819. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Sabina Scott; bequeathed to her cousin Robert Scott Chisholme; Alice Scott Chisholme; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Warren Vernon Daniell, a London antiquarian bookseller, in May 1903.
Summary
Concerning his daughter's departure; saying he "must have her sent immediately with or without a Governante or Edgecombe shall instantly quit my service. -- Do not let him delay one moment more -- as I may leave Bologna in ten days or twelve at furthest.-- I return to Ravenna -- for the present."
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