BIB_ID
364454
Accession number
MA 62.20
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1816 Apr. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Honble Mrs. Leigh / Six Mile Bottom / nr. Newmarket."
Docketed.
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Place of writing is from address panel.
With postmark and seal.
Docketed.
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Place of writing is from address panel.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Requesting news of his daughter Ada; asking that she "will never mention nor allude to Lady Byron's name again in any shape -- or on any occasion -- except indispensable business."
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