Letters of Clara Mary [Claire] Clairmont to Lord Byron., 1816-1820, 20th century, undated.
Scope and Contents
Letters of Clara Mary [Claire] Clairmont to Lord Byron. Also included is a fragment of a letter of Lord Byron to Clairmont. The letters have been ordered through the dates given in 'The Clairmont Correspondence', edited by Marion Kingston Stocking.
Letters of Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron, 1816: folios 1-57;
Letters of Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron, 1818: folios 58-67;
Letters of Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron, 1819: folios 68-69;
Letters of Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron, 1820: folios 70-75;
Fragment of a letter of Lord Byron to Claire Clairmont, 1816: folio 76;
Blank page: folio 77;
Photocopies of the fragment of a letter of Lord Byron to Claire Clairmont (original at folio 76) and the transcription as appeared in ‘Byron’s Letters and Journals’, edited by Leslie Marchand: folios 78-79.
Dates
- Creation: 1816-1820, 20th century, undated.
Creator
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) (Person)
- Clairmont, Claire, 1798–1879 (member of the Shelley–Byron circle) (Person)
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) (Recipient, Person)
- Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane (mistress of Lord Byron, called "Claire") (Recipient, Person)
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Extent
80 Leaves
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
i + 79 folios.
Bibliography
Clairmont, Clara Mary, 'The Clairmont correspondence : letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin, Vol.1, 1808-1834', edited by Mary Kingston Stocking, (Baltimore and London, 1995). National Library of Scotland shelfmark H3.95.3593.
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