BIB_ID
364304
Accession number
MA 62.2
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1808 Nov. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Endorsed with place of writing and date.
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Discussing his improvements to the house; observing that he is "furnishing the house more for [her] than [him]self"; noting that he plans to establish her in the house before he sails for India; asking her to inquire of Major Watson what things are necessary for his voyage; writing, "If I do not travel now, I never shall, and all men should, one day or other ... when I return, I may possibly become a politician, a few years knowledge of other countries than our own will not incapacitate me for that part. -- If we see no nation but our own, we do not give mankind a fair chance, it is from experience not Books, we ought to judge of mankind."
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