BIB_ID
364481
Accession number
MA 62.24
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1807 Dec. 28.
Credit line
Acquired before 1923.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Ridge / Bookseller / near Newark / Notts."
High reserve.
John Ridge, a printer based in Newark (near Newstead Abbey), was Byron's original printer.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Possibly from the Kaye Dowland Byron collection.
With postmark and seal.
High reserve.
John Ridge, a printer based in Newark (near Newstead Abbey), was Byron's original printer.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Possibly from the Kaye Dowland Byron collection.
With postmark and seal.
Summary
Enclosing a poem to be inserted after "Childish Recollections" in his volume of poetry and asking him to "send the proofs." The enclosed poem is no longer with the letter.
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