BIB_ID
80956
Accession number
MA 62.35
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1813 Sept. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Signed "Biron."
With separate cover sheet (7.6 x 12.1 cm), addressed to "J. Thomson Esq. / 25 Fenchurch Street," with postmark.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Signed "Biron."
With separate cover sheet (7.6 x 12.1 cm), addressed to "J. Thomson Esq. / 25 Fenchurch Street," with postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Thanking him for his volume of poems; warning him that poetry "has always been so unprofitable a pursuit" and depends on the "caprice" of the public; praising his Drury Lane Address; telling him that he will have his booksellers "transmit the publication [Thomson] favour[s him] by requesting."
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