BIB_ID
81333
Accession number
MA 1294.17
Creator
Byron, John, 1723-1786.
Display Date
1783 Sept. 17.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to "J. Sykes Esq'r / Crutched friars / London."
Docketed.
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.
Docketed.
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 £100 for his daughter Juliana as she prepares to marry Sir Robert [Wilmot] "for it would certainly appear very much to go to him without a single shilling in her pocket;" adding that he has "heard lately from another quarter that Sir Robert is a man of very good fortune as well as character, so that I hope they will do very well together."
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