Correspondence between Lord Byron and correspondents with surnames from Nathan-Rowley., 1807-1823, undated.
Scope and Contents
The letters have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname. When first made available for consultation, the letters of Rocca had been placed before those of Ridgeway. These have now been changed so that they adhere to the alphabetical arrangement and the folio numbers updated accordingly.
Further correspondence has been added to the end of the sequence.
Unpublished poem ‘On reading Lord Byron’s Bride of Abydos’, by A Baldry, beginning 'The tale is told, yet on my ear', fair copied by Robert Rowley, 1816: f.1;
Letters of Isaac Nathan to Lord Byron, 1814: ff.2-4;
Letter of John O’Neill to Lord Byron, including unpublished poem beginning, 'Let dull thinking worldlings count over their gold', 1815: ff.5-6;
Letters of Alfred Guilliaume Gabriel D'Orsey, Count D’Orsay, to Lord Byron, 1823: ff.7-9;
Letters of Sidney Godolphin Osborne, Lord Osborne, to Lord Byron, 1818 and 1821-1822: ff.10-19;
Letters of Frances [Fanny] Bridget Parkyns to Lord Byron, 1812-1814 and 1816: ff.20-50, a further letter of this correspondent has been placed at folios 106-108 of this manuscript;
Letter of Frances [Fanny] Bridget Parkyns to Ann Catherine Parkyns (later Territt), no date, [c.1810]: ff.51-52;
Letters of Elizabeth Pigot to Lord Byron, 1807: ff.53-57;
Letter of C Porter to Lord Byron, 1808: ff.58-59;
Letters of Bryan Waller Procter to Lord Byron, 1821 and 1823: ff.60-67;
Letters of James Ridgeway to Lord Byron, 1808, 1811 and 1814: ff.68-71;
Letter of Albert Jean-Michel Rocca to Lord Byron, 1816: ff.72-73;
Letters of Samuel Rogers to Lord Byron, not dated: ff.74-104;
Manuscript copy by Samuel Rogers of 'To Samuel Rogers, Esq.', by Lord Byron, also known as ‘Written on a blank leaf 'Of the Pleasures of Memory'', 1812: f.105;
Further letter of Frances [Fanny] Parkyns to Lord Byron, ?1813: folios 106-108.
Dates
- Creation: 1807-1823, undated.
Creator
- Baldry, A (master mate, HMS Melpomene) (Person)
- Nathan, Isaac (composer) (Person)
- Neill, John O' (shoemaker and writer) (Person)
- Orsey, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel D’ , Count D'Orsey (artist) (Person)
- Osborne, Sidney Godolphin, Lord (Secretary General to the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands) (Person)
- Parkyns, Frances [Fanny] Bridget (childhood friend of Lord Byron) (Person)
- Pigot, Elizabeth Bridget (friend and correspondent of Lord Byron) (Person)
- Porter, C (correspondent of Lord Byron) (Person)
- Procter, Bryan Waller (poet and lawyer, pseudonym 'Barry Cornwall') (Person)
- Ridgeway, James (bookseller and printer) (Person)
- Rocca, Albert Jean-Michel (soldier) (Person)
- Rogers, Samuel (poet) (Person)
- Rowley, Robert (Captain, RN) (Person)
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) (Recipient, Person)
- Territt, Ann Catherine (wife of William, judge of the admiralty court of Bermuda, née Parkyns) (Recipient, Person)
Language of Materials
The contents are mostly in English, but some content is in French.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
111 Leaves
Arrangement
ii + 109 folios, including a f.7a.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
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