BIB_ID
364763
Accession number
MA 62.57
Creator
Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869.
Display Date
1839 Aug. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Addressed to "The Baroness Fenyesessey[?] / Windsor Castle."
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
This letter was sent with MA 62.58, an autograph fragment in the hand of Lord Byron.
With postmark and seal.
Written from "Berkeley Square."
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
This letter was sent with MA 62.58, an autograph fragment in the hand of Lord Byron.
With postmark and seal.
Written from "Berkeley Square."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Sending her a sample of Lord Byron's handwriting (now MA 62.58); remarking that he does not know why Byron copied "so rare a specimen of French morality upon the back of a tradesman's letter."
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