BIB_ID
81242
Accession number
MA 406.13
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1821 Sept. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to P. B. Shelley Esqr at Pisa.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley. Items in the collection have been cataloged individually in separate records; see related collection-level record for more information.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley. Items in the collection have been cataloged individually in separate records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Complaining about the price that some wagon drivers in Ravenna want to charge Byron for moving his household goods to Pisa; asking Shelley to arrange for eight wagons and drivers to come from Pisa and remarking on furnishing the new mansion. With a postscript asking Shelly to expedite the baggage wagons and to "make my remembrances to every body I don't know -- & my respects to all I do."
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