BIB_ID
364366
Accession number
MA 62.8
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1810 Apr. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Address is written at the end of the letter rather than on an address panel: "The Honbl / Mrs. Byron / Newstead Abbey / Nottinghamshire."
Endorsed with date and place of writing.
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Endorsed with date and place of writing.
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
Announcing that he is sailing for Constantinople "in the Salsette 36 gun frigate"; telling her that she "must not be angry" at how infrequently he has written to her because "writing is so irksome"; asking her to address letters to him to Malta; reporting that he is "anxiously expecting fresh remittances" from Mr. Hanson.
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