BIB_ID
378194
Accession number
MA 1294.50
Creator
Byron, Sophia, -1790.
Display Date
[1748-1790?].
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Address panel to "George Stubbs Esq'r / Parliament Street / Westminster."
It is uncertain to whom this letter refers and there is no date of writing given. George Stubbs was the Keeper of the records of the Court of Common Pleas and died on September 7, 1794. Lady Byron died in 1790. It is possible it refers to Juliana Elizabeth Byron Wilmot who died in 1788 but she was Lady Wilmot from 1783.
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 undated; the date range chosen extends from the year Lady Byron married until her death.
Written in the third person.
It is uncertain to whom this letter refers and there is no date of writing given. George Stubbs was the Keeper of the records of the Court of Common Pleas and died on September 7, 1794. Lady Byron died in 1790. It is possible it refers to Juliana Elizabeth Byron Wilmot who died in 1788 but she was Lady Wilmot from 1783.
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 undated; the date range chosen extends from the year Lady Byron married until her death.
Written in the third person.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Informing him that "Poor Miss Byron is exceedingly Ill; & as L'y Byron does not remember the Particulars of Miss Byron's Will, she s'd be Obliged to Mr. Stubbs If he c'd make it Convenient to him to Call on her some time to morrow Morn: as she s'd be glad to Ask him About it."
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