BIB_ID
81451
Accession number
MA 62.44
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1819 June 6-8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (8 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur R.B. Hoppner / Consul General / de la Majesté Britque / Venezia."
Docketed.
High reserve.
Pages [3-4] are torn in half with no obvious loss of text.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
With postmark and seal.
Docketed.
High reserve.
Pages [3-4] are torn in half with no obvious loss of text.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Reporting that he is "joined to Bologna -- where [he is] settled like a Sausage -- and shall be broiled like one if this weather continues"; discussing his stay with Count Mosti's family at Ferrara; giving details of his attendance at Mosti's "Conversazione, which is very far superior to anything of the kind at Venice," and describing the various people he met there; commenting on two Italian epitaphs he saw in the Certosa Cemetery; saying that he wants his own tombstone to say "'implora pace' and nothing else"; telling Hoppner to expect him in Venice about the 11th; hoping his daughter [Allegra] is well; telling a humorous story about how he denied being Lord Byron to avoid fawning readers; amending his plans to say that he is leaving for Ravenna on June 8.
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