BIB_ID
363236
Accession number
MA 51.8
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 July 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks.
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
Enclosing a letter from "the G[uiccioli]" (MA 51.9); informing him that he will not be returning to Venice and discussing the financial and logistical considerations of that decision; adding "As to the 'adoration' of the Venetians -- you are of course laughing;-- I have never courted their liking but have done them no harm -- at least none intentionally. -- You need make no secret of my intended removal;-- but at the same time you may state the fact -- which is -- that the G's have nothing to do with it."
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