BIB_ID
81108
Accession number
MA 62.52
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1824 Jan. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Lord Sydney Osborne was secretary to the government of the Ionian Islands.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Signed "N.B."
Lord Sydney Osborne was secretary to the government of the Ionian Islands.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Signed "N.B."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Forwarding a "private communication from Prince Mavrocordato to Sir Thomas Maitland" and asking Lord Sydney Osborne to deliver it; discussing political matters in Greece; commenting on his voyage to Greece; noting that he has been received in Greece "with every possible public and private mark of respect," and he plants to "stick by the cause as long as a man of honour can -- without sparing purse -- or ... person."
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