BIB_ID
363333
Accession number
MA 51.3
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 June 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "Alessandro Scott / Ferma in Posta / 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
Expressing his frustration at not having received his English letters nor the Paris newspapers; asking him to reply and explain "why & how."
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