BIB_ID
364038
Accession number
MA 52.28
Creator
Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852.
Display Date
[1842?] Nov. 8.
Credit line
Acquired before, 1923.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron, Lady Byron, Catherine Gordon Byron, Contessa Guiccioli, Ada King Lovelace and others from 1788 to 1855. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The year of writing is not given but it is possible that the year is 1842 from references in the letter to Thursday the 17th and Saturday the 19th of November; there is no other year between 1938, when she became Lady Lovelace and her death in 1852 that the 17th and the 19th of November fall on a Thursday and Saturday respectively.
The year of writing is not given but it is possible that the year is 1842 from references in the letter to Thursday the 17th and Saturday the 19th of November; there is no other year between 1938, when she became Lady Lovelace and her death in 1852 that the 17th and the 19th of November fall on a Thursday and Saturday respectively.
Summary
Asking him to send her "accounts of the old experiments, & the more recent ones as well. All is well as usual here. I play as much, perhaps more, than ever; & really do get on gloriously. You know that I believe no creature ever could will things like a Byron. And perhaps that is at the bottom of the genius-like tendencies in my family. We can throw our whole life & existence for the time-being into whatever we will to do & accomplish. You know perhaps the family motto "Crede Byron"! I think not inappropriate; & especially when united to that of the King's "Labor ipse voluptas". Now as I have married that motto, both literally, & in my whole ideas & nature, I mean to do what I mean to do!;" reminding him that his son promised to visit them in Surrey.
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