BIB_ID
364368
Accession number
MA 62.9
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1810 Apr. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address is written at the end of the letter rather than on an address panel: "The Honble / Mrs. Byron / Newstead Abbey."
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
Describing a visit to Troy ("all that remains of Troy are the tombs of her destroyers"); noting that the monuments near the "Alexandrian Troas" are "by no means to be compared with the remnants of Athens & Ephesus"; explaining that he "feel[s] totally unequal to long letters"; complaining that Hanson has not written to him.
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