BIB_ID
80874
Accession number
MA 62.49
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1823 Feb. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.9 x 19.9 cm
Notes
Endorsed: "Ld. Byron to Mrs. Shelley."
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Sending a letter from Sir Timothy Shelley; asking her to "request L[eig]h Hunt to return the two vols of Napoleon (if finished) as Sir J[ames] W[edderburn] promised to lend them to the Countess D'Isson of Cannes"; thanking Hunt for "the Blues"; mentioning the outcry against The Liberal: "I never heard so persevering an outcry against any work -- nor do I know the reason for not even dullness or demerit could authorize the extraordinary tone of reprobation."
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