BIB_ID
364765
Accession number
MA 62.47
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1821 Nov. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 24.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Honble. Douglas Kinnaird / Messrs. Hanson & Co. Bankers / Pall Mall / London / Angleterre."
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Signed with a scribble.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Signed with a scribble.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Telling him that his "epistle has pacified [his] wrath" and "explained every thing"; saying that he is glad Kinnaird "accept[s] the dedication" [to Marino Faliero]; commenting on the reception of Don Juan; discussing John Murray and financial matters; noting that he had to change his residence in Italy; mentioning Samuel Rogers and [John Cam] Hobhouse.
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