BIB_ID
81519
Accession number
MA 62.29
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1810 July 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Addressed on p. 2 to "Mr. J. Cawthorn / Cockspur Street / London."
Cawthorn was one of Byron's publishers.
High reserve.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Cawthorn was one of Byron's publishers.
High reserve.
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
Asking him to send a copy of the second edition of his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers to Malta; complaining that Cawthorn has not written to him about the book's progress, and noting that he has "heard through other channels that the work goes on tolerably ... and it is said to be in a third Edition"; wishing him "success & a little more politeness."
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