BIB_ID
364305
Accession number
MA 62.3
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1809 June 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.5 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
Reporting that he is going to sail in a few days; discussing which servants are with him; promising to write from different ports; mentioning a portrait of him that is "to be sent down to Newstead soon"; writing, "as to money matters I am ruined, at least till Rochdale is sold"; telling her, "I leave England without regret, and without a wish to revisit anything it contains, except yourself, and your present residence."
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