BIB_ID
81406
Accession number
MA 51.9
Creator
Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, 1800-1873.
Display Date
1819 July 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron to Alexander Scott from Ravenna in the summer of 1819. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Sabina Scott; bequeathed to her cousin Robert Scott Chisholme; Alice Scott Chisholme; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Warren Vernon Daniell, a London antiquarian bookseller, in May 1903.
Summary
Telling him that "Byron has read me some parts of your last letter, which concerns me; expressing her obligation to him and her esteem for him; asking him "to give counsels of patience to those who are condemning me for future errors...I am certain that no action of mine, either for good or bad, can strengthen my accusers and put them in the right; I therefore am astonished at the sublime acuteness of those people who can see, foresee and judge the future. -- But I hope to receive my justification from another judge: Time....Forgive the liberty that I have taken, understand me, continue your courteous offices, and say that my crime is one only, and always will be one."
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