Letters of various correspondents to Lord Byron and others concerning Greece and the Greek Committee., 1823-1824, undated.
Scope and Contents
The letters have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname, with additional material at the end of the sequence.
When first made available for consultation, before foliation, this manuscript included letters of Pellegrino Ghigi and Antonio Lega Zambelli. These have been moved to Ms.43531 during cataloguing.
Letter possibly of Giuseppe Abbati to Lord Byron, with a poem dedicated to Byron, 1824: folios 1-4;
Note possibly of David Baillie relating to a box of papers that had belonged to Lord Byron, 1824: folio 5;
Letters of John Bowring to Lord Byron, including a typescript transcription of a letter of Bowring to Lord Byron, 1823-1824 and undated: folios 6-21;
Letters of James Hamilton Browne to Lord Byron, 1823-1824: folios 22-27;
Letter of Francesco Bruno to John Cam Hobhouse, 1824: folios 28-29;
Letter of George Falere to Lord Byron, 1824: folio 30;
Letter of Pietro Gamba to John Hanson, 1824: folio 31;
Accounts of Lord Byron by Pietro Gamba, 1823-1824: folios 32-33;
Letter of Giambattista Giuliani to John Cam Hobhouse, 1824: folios 34-35;
Letter of Henry Kane to Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington, 1824: folios 36-37;
Letters of Henry Muir to Lord Byron, 1824: folios 38-43;
Letters of Sir Charles James Napier to Lord Byron and Pietro Gamba, 1823: folios 44-50;
Letter of Ioannes Orlandos and Andreas Luriottis to Lord Byron, 1824: folios 51-52;
Letter of Demetrius Parucca to Lord Byron, 1824: folios 53-54;
Letter of Georgios Praidis to Lord Byron, 1824: folios 55-56;
Letter of Constantine Skilitzy to Pietro Gamba, 1823: folios 57-58;
Letter of William Smith to Lord Byron, 1823: folios 59-60;
Letters of Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington, to Lord Byron and John Bowring, including one with annotations by Lord Byron, 1823-1824 and undated: folios 61-74;
Letter of Captain Stitzelberger and other unidentified correspondents possibly to Lord Byron, 1824: folios 75-76;
Letter of Chrissulla Tzavelas to Lord Byron, 1824: folios 77-78;
Letters and a copy of a letter to Lord Byron from unknown correspondents, 1824 and undated: 79-84;
Note possibly relating to expenses of Lord Byron, 1824: folio 85;
Note of an unknown correspondent entitled 'Nouvelles de Corfou', undated: folios 86-87;
Transcription by Doris Langley Moore of a copy of a letter, 1824, of Pietro Gamba to John Cam Hobhouse, with a business card of Doris Langley Moore, undated: folios 88-90.
Dates
- Creation: 1823-1824, undated.
Creator
- Abbati, Giuseppe (Corsican officer and philhellene) (Person)
- Baillie, David (of Hill Park, Westerham) (Person)
- Bowring, John, Sir, Knight (politician, diplomatist and author) (Person)
- Browne, James Hamilton (fighter in the War of Greek Independence) (Person)
- Bruno, Francesco (physician to Lord Byron, Missolonghi) (Person)
- Falere, George (correspondent of Lord Byron) (Person)
- Gamba, Pietro (Italian nobleman) (Person)
- Giuliani, Giambattista (man of letters, editor and commentator of Dante Alighieri) (Person)
- Kane, Henry (British Vice-Consul in Ancona, Italy) (Person)
- Luriottis, Andreas (deputy of the Greek Legislative Body) (Person)
- Moore, Doris Elizabeth Langley (historian and museum founder, née Levy) (Person)
- Muir, Henry (doctor, Health Officer at Cephalonia) (Person)
- Napier, Charles James, Sir, Knight (General) (Person)
- Orlandos, Ioannes (deputy of the Greek Legislative Body) (Person)
- Parucca, Demetrius (envoy of the Greek patriot Petros Mavromichalis) (Person)
- Praidis, Georgios (Secretary to Alexandros Mavrocordatos) (Person)
- Skilitzy, Constantine (Count, relative of Alexander Mavrocordatos) (Person)
- Smith, William (politician and dissenter) (Person)
- Stanhope, Leicester Fitzgerald Charles, 5th Earl of Harrington (Colonel) (Person)
- Stitzelberger (Captain, fighter for Greek independence) (Person)
- Tzavelas, Chrissulla (widow of Ziguri, Greek patriot) (Person)
- Bowring, John, Sir, Knight (politician, diplomatist and author) (Recipient, Person)
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) (Recipient, Person)
- Gamba, Pietro (Italian nobleman) (Recipient, Person)
- Hanson, John (Byron family solicitor and guardian of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron) (Recipient, Person)
- Hobhouse, John Cam, Baron Broughton (politician) (Recipient, Person)
- Stanhope, Leicester Fitzgerald Charles, 5th Earl of Harrington (Colonel) (Recipient, Person)
Language of Materials
The contents are mostly in English, but some content is in French, Greek and Italian.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
92 Leaves
Arrangement
ii + 90 folios.
Repository Details
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