BIB_ID
378203
Accession number
MA 1294.51
Creator
Byron, George Anson Byron, Baron, 1789-1868.
Display Date
[1830-1860?] July 15.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
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 last sentence is missing the last letters of one word, but it may be saying that there were sixteen hundred in attendance at the Levee.
The year of writing is not given, however Lord Byron served as Lord of the Bedchamber to the court of King William IV from 1830-1837 and as Lord-in-Waiting in the court of Queen Victoria from 1837-1860 and during these years he would have been in attendance at a Levee.
Written on mourning paper.
The last sentence is missing the last letters of one word, but it may be saying that there were sixteen hundred in attendance at the Levee.
The year of writing is not given, however Lord Byron served as Lord of the Bedchamber to the court of King William IV from 1830-1837 and as Lord-in-Waiting in the court of Queen Victoria from 1837-1860 and during these years he would have been in attendance at a Levee.
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Saying he is leaving tomorrow for Derbyshire; adding he has just come from a Levee.
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