BIB_ID
363202
Accession number
MA 51.5
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 July 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal to "Ale. Scott, Esq. / Venice."
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
Sending his greeting to mutual friends; saying that "The G[uiccioli] is better -- and will get well with prudence. Our amatory business goes on well and daily -- not at all interrupted by extraneous matters or the threatened consumption;" adding, in a postscript, "Tell Edgecombe that he is a 'f----d pig' and a boar (bore) besides."
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