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Autograph letter signed : Malta, to James Cawthorn, 1811 May 9.

BIB_ID
364528
Accession number
MA 62.31
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1811 May 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Addressed on p. 2 to "Mr. Jas. Cawthorn."
Cawthorn was one of Byron's publishers.
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
Complaining about the type used in the third edition of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; noting that he has a poem for Cawthorn to publish, but if Cawthorn "make[s] these retrograde movements" he will look elsewhere for a publisher.