BIB_ID
81730
Accession number
MA 52.75
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Credit line
Acquired before 1923.
Description
1 item (20 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Byron's draft is annotated by Elizabeth Pigot.
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron, Lady Byron, Catherine Gordon Byron, Contessa Guiccioli, Ada King Lovelace and others from 1788 to 1855. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The manuscript is dated March 1807 at the conclusion of the Reply. The date of March 1807 is also given at the end of a note signed by Elizabeth Pigot with her initials authenticating the 4 pages preceding the note as in "Lord Byron's own writing, & is intended to be put into the 'Reply to the Edinburgh Ladies Petition' in addition to what [illegible] L.B. already possesses."
Part of a collection of autograph letters written by Lord Byron, Lady Byron, Catherine Gordon Byron, Contessa Guiccioli, Ada King Lovelace and others from 1788 to 1855. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The manuscript is dated March 1807 at the conclusion of the Reply. The date of March 1807 is also given at the end of a note signed by Elizabeth Pigot with her initials authenticating the 4 pages preceding the note as in "Lord Byron's own writing, & is intended to be put into the 'Reply to the Edinburgh Ladies Petition' in addition to what [illegible] L.B. already possesses."
Summary
Comprising a fair copy in an unknown hand of the Petition, 50 lines beginning "Dear Doctor, let is not transpire;" the Reply being a fair copy by Ann Bristoe beginning "In all the arts without Exception," dated March 1807, followed by Byron's autograph draft of lines 21-40 and lines 89-114 for insertion.
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