BIB_ID
407936
Accession number
MA 9176.1-49
Display Date
1885-1936.
Credit line
Gift of Jane W. Stedman, 1972.
Description
49 items (108 pages), unbound ; various sizes
Notes
May Gillington Byron was British writer and poet and author of the abridgments of J.B. Barrie's "Peter Pan." She was married to George Frederick Byron, son of Henry James Byron, a dramatist and 2nd cousin to Lord George Gordon Noel Byron, the poet.
Housed with two pages of May Byron's Birthday book. One page is dated July 15 with the name Marie Etherington Tempest (1864-1942), an English singer and actress.
Housed with two pages of May Byron's Birthday book. One page is dated July 15 with the name Marie Etherington Tempest (1864-1942), an English singer and actress.
Provenance
Gift of Jane W. Stedman, 1972.
Summary
Being a collection of 49 autograph and typed letters signed to May Gillington Byron from friends and publishers primarily concerning her poetry. Letters in the collection have been described in forty-nine separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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