BIB_ID
81073
Accession number
MA 62.26
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1808 Feb. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.1 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.
Written from "Dorant's" Hotel on Albemarle Street.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Written from "Dorant's" Hotel on Albemarle Street.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Complaining of debility from "too much love"; mentioning his "blue eyed Caroline, who is only sixteen"; advising him of a forthcoming attack on Hours of Idleness in the Edinburgh Review; remarking that "it is however something to be noticed, as they [the Edinburgh Review] profess to pass judgment only on works requiring the public attention"; observing of the Edinburgh Review that "they defeat their object by indiscriminate abuse, and they never praise except the partizans of Ld. Holland & Co."; discussing changes to the current edition of his poems.
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