BIB_ID
363234
Accession number
MA 51.10
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 July 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark.
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
Hinting that he may be involved with another woman; discussing Hoppner's letter concerning Mme. Guiccioli; expressing his displeasure with Hoppner and Mengaldo; saying he hasn't decided yet what to do about Venice but that he has "a general idea of quitting Venice altogether -- particularly if I can get this other Girl." .
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