Autograph letter signed : "Pall Mall" [London], to James Sykes, 1786 May 4.

Record ID: 
377918
Accession number: 
MA 1294.21
Author: 
Byron, John, 1756-1791.
Credit: 
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 item (1 p, with address.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes: 

The letter is signed "John Byron Gordon."
Address panel to "James Sykes, Esq'r / No 31 / Crutched Fryars."
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.

Summary: 

Concerning £200 owed to Perigaud, the banker that his father wished to have settled; asking that he satisfy the debt; adding, in a postscript, "I shall not oppose the Wills."

Provenance: 
Kaye Dowland.