BIB_ID
364372
Accession number
MA 62.11
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1810 May 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Honble Mrs. Byron / Newstead Abbey / near 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
Asking if she ever received a picture of him "in oil by [George] Sanders in Vigo Lane London," and advising her to "write for it immediately" if she hasn't received it; mentioning again that he swam from Sestos to Abydos; noting that any descriptions she has read of Constantinople are "so correct that [he has] nothing to add on the subject"; reporting that he plans to visit the Sultan with the British ambassador and then return to Greece; commenting on the lack of letters from Mr. Hanson; informing her that [William] Fletcher, his valet, is well.
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