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Autograph letter signed : Patras, to his mother, 1810 July 30.

BIB_ID
364410
Accession number
MA 62.14
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1810 July 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.8 cm
Notes
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
Mentioning that he travelled from Athens to Corinth with the Marquis of Sligo; describing his travel plans in Greece; commenting on the intensity of the heat in Greece; noting that Mr. [John Cam] Hobhouse has gone to England; writing that he "has no particular communications for [her] country, expect [his] surprise at Mr. Hanson's silence, and [his] desire that [Hanson] will remit regularly"; adding that he supposes "some arrangement has been made with regard to Wymondham and Rochdale"; addressing her complaint that he doesn't write enough and protesting that he has "written twenty or thirty times within the last year, never less than twice a month, and often more"; reporting that he is tired of travelling companions as his "nature leads [him] to solitude"; commenting on his travel plans and the servants who are travelling with him; asking her to take care of his books.