BIB_ID
363351
Accession number
MA 51.15
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 Oct. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal to "Alessandro Scott / 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 published text of this letter indicates that it was possibly Giovanni Battista Missiaglia, a bookseller, publisher and proprietor of the Apollo Library in Venice, to whom Byron was referring in this letter.
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 published text of this letter indicates that it was possibly Giovanni Battista Missiaglia, a bookseller, publisher and proprietor of the Apollo Library in Venice, to whom Byron was referring in this letter.
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
Regretting that he is not in a financial position to help "M" as he has recently paid twenty-eight thousand pounds in England for family and legal expenses.
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