Accession number
PML 146395.147
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Forgery probably acquired by collector David Langton sometime during the 1840's; the contents of the letter chiefly assembled from passages extracted from various letters written by Lord Byron to John Murray (see especially Byron's letters to Murray of Apr. 9, 1817; Sept. 28, 1820; Jan. 19, 1821; and Nov. 24, 1821).
Probably the work of noted forger Major George Gordon Byron. Cf. Marchand, v. 1, p. 26.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Watermark: Britannia.
Probably the work of noted forger Major George Gordon Byron. Cf. Marchand, v. 1, p. 26.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Watermark: Britannia.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.3 cm
Provenance
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Passages comprising the forged letter chiefly concern management of Byron's affairs, along with four lines of humorous verse attacking Wordsworth originally sent by Byron to John Murray in a letter of Jan. 19, 1821 ("Of Turdsworth the great metaquizzical poet ... I owe all I know to my passion for pastry").
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