BIB_ID
81227
Accession number
MA 1294.11
Creator
Byron, John, 1723-1786.
Display Date
1775 Dec. 2.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Identity of recipient from published excerpt of this letter cited below.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Requesting money; explaining that he had just been to Bath "as my wife sent an Express here to inform me she was very ill. I left her much better but the journey has half ruin'd me; add to this that I have no less than thirteen workmen to pay every Saturday. I am now without money;" asking that he send "seventy or eighty pds as soon as possible."
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