BIB_ID
363344
Accession number
MA 51.14
Creator
Castelli, Jacopo.
Display Date
1819 Aug. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal to "All' Onorevolissimo / Lord Byron / Pari d'Inghilterra & & / a/ Bologna." Ravenna has been crossed through and Bologna written beneath it.
Jacopo Castelli was the lawyer for a tradesman named Merryweather with whom Byron had a dispute over what he was billed.
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.
Jacopo Castelli was the lawyer for a tradesman named Merryweather with whom Byron had a dispute over what he was billed.
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
Concerning Byron's dispute with Merryweather.
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