BIB_ID
364370
Accession number
MA 62.10
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1810 May 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Honble Mrs. Byron / Newstead Abbey / nr. Nottingham / England."
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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Mentioning his visit "to view the plains of Troy"; telling her that he swam "from Sestos to Abydos, in imitation of Monsieur Leander"; asking her to excuse the brevity of his letter, and explaining that he is "just going to visit the Captain Pacha."
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