BIB_ID
377923
Accession number
MA 1294.22
Creator
Byron, John, 1756-1791.
Display Date
1786 May 5.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel to "James Sykes Esq'r / Crutched Fryars;" with a 2nd address panel "Burton office / Houghton Street / Clare Market."
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.
The letter is signed "John Byron Gordon."
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.
The letter is signed "John Byron Gordon."
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Asking for his help in settling debts of £150 which, if he is unable to satisfy, will require him to go to jail; asking for an advance on his inheritance from his father which he will in turn assign to his creditors.
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