BIB_ID
81452
Accession number
MA 62.43
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1816 Sept. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Concerning John Murray's final payment for Childe Harold; reporting that he and [John Cam] H[obhouse] have "just returned from [their] excursion over the mountains"; saying that he hopes to "applaud Miss [Maria] Keppel" (Kinnaird's mistress was an actress and singer); mentioning [Sir Edward Pellew, Viscount] Exmouth, [Samuel James] Arnold, and [Percy Bysshe] Shelley.
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