BIB_ID
363331
Accession number
MA 51.12
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 Aug. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal to "Alexander Scott Esq. / Gentiluomo Inglese / 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.
The last five and a half lines of the body of the letter have been crossed through.
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.
The last five and a half lines of the body of the letter have been crossed through.
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
Asking for his help in obtaining a governess for his daughter but asking that it not be Mrs. Edgecombe and asking that they be sent to him; adding that he "need not be alarmed about the 'Dama; -- I wish to see my child -- & have her with me -- now that Hoppner is no longer in Venice and her being with me will not prevent my return (sooner or later according to circumstances) for to return to Venice is of course my intention & indeed obligation, to take my effects and settle about my books &c;" discussing certain payments and receipts; adding, in a postscript, that he hopes his drawers were "re-locked -- as I have papers and Cloathes &c in them;" asking him to send him "a large bottle of Magnesia."
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