BIB_ID
377963
Accession number
MA 1294.24
Creator
Byron, William J., -1794.
Display Date
1789 Aug. 4.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Endorsed "from Cousin Wm J. Byron."
It is likely this letter was written by the grandson of Lord William Byron (1722-1798) who died in Corsica in 1794. He signs the letter "your nephew", however a note, in an unknown hand says "To his Cousin Capt Geo: Byron."
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.
It is likely this letter was written by the grandson of Lord William Byron (1722-1798) who died in Corsica in 1794. He signs the letter "your nephew", however a note, in an unknown hand says "To his Cousin Capt Geo: Byron."
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.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Relating his lack of success in receiving any money from Lord [William] Byron; saying "I have been writing to Lord Byron to beg that he would do something for me for I have not had a farthing from him since you left England nor will he settle any thing for me nor will he ever answer any letters. I have been obliged as you was so good to give me leave to get some money from [James] Sykes & if it had not been for that I don't know what I should have done; relating news of the family; saying "Your Sister Leigh has brought a boy down here of the name of Aylmer but who he is I can't make out very well, but she is as fond of him as if it was her own child[.] I can't help suspecting certain things. she is gone over to France to settle her affairs & then is going to live at Walmer near Deal. My Aunt Sophy is with Lady Tancred at Prospect House near Broadstairs. Your brother [John "Mad Jack" Byron, 1756-1791) took a [illegible] house at Sandgate Castle this summer where I stayed some time with him...but since that he has been very near taken up and put into prison at Boulogne but now he is gone down to Scotland and I am sure I wish he may make a long stay as it is by much the safest place for him."
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