BIB_ID
363302
Accession number
MA 51.11
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 Aug. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks to " Alessandro Scott / presso gli Signori / Siri & Willhalm / Banchieri / 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
Requesting that he "leave things house &c as they are -- that is to take no further steps for the present with the landladies of the Palazzo & the Cassini"; saying that "My dama and I go on very well together hitherto -- they are going to Bologna too.....I perhaps may take a run up for my daughter -- but I don't intend to village until the autumn probably;" enclosing an advertisement from Paris for an "Unguent for Corns" and asking for his help in getting it; adding "I am so plagued with them that I am resolved to try any remedy -- quack or no."
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