BIB_ID
377895
Accession number
MA 1294.19
Creator
Byron, Sophia, -1790
Display Date
1785 Dec. 19.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel to "James Sykes Esq/r / Crutched friars."
Docketed.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
With instructions on verso for payments to be made to various creditors.
Docketed.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
With instructions on verso for payments to be made to various creditors.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Disputing expenses charged against her allowance which she argues were not hers; adding "I was to be the nominal spender - tho I acted liberally but as a secondary means - I was the House Steward to follow directions & then because I did as I was ordered - was accused of dishonesty - with respect to your conduct towards me - its a bad representation of Ld. Howe's to the Navy" and quoting a "late reply of a Capt'n to him on the subject which was as follows ----- you seem to have forgot you was not always the great man you are now become - and that you have heretofore wanted money still more than I do----to which I must add from myself -- as I well remember the time of both - and ever must what I am and you are."
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