George Gordon, Lord Byron letters and miscellaneous papers, [ca.1807-1824]

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

George Gordon, Lord Byron letters and miscellaneous papers, [ca.1807-1824]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155474579

Papers consist primarily of letters written by George Gordon, Lord Byron, many of which were written from Ravenna and Venice, Italy. Manuscripts, drafts, and fragments of poems; a codicil to Lord Byron's will, n.d.; checks, 1812; a letter of credit, 1809; and engravings of Byron, his friends, and family are also included. Correspondents include Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Douglas Kinnaird, Monk Lewis, Teresa Guiccioli, and many others. Manuscripts represented include FARE THEE WELL, 1816; DON JUAN canto 16, 1823; MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE, 1820; ON PARTING, ca.1812, and others.

ca. 150 items.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6875136

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Byron family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vf5vf4 (family)

Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv4g4z (person)

British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...

Kinnaird, Douglas, 1788-1830

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jw8td3 (person)

Friend of Lord Byron. From the description of Copies of his letters : to John Howard Payne, 1815-1816. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270494274 From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. James' Square, to Lord Byron, 1819 Nov. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489786 Douglas James William Kinnaird, writer and politician. He was a close friend of the poet Lord Byron, and was much involved in the publishing of Byron's works. From the descrip...

Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, 1800-1873

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bg2wp7 (person)

Teresa, Countess Guiccioli, Italian noblewoman and writer. She was the last of Lord Byron's Italian mistresses. From the description of Teresa Guiccioli manuscript material : 267 items, 1819-1869 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 713898806 From the guide to the Teresa Guiccioli manuscript material : 267 items, 1819-1869, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Friend of Lord Byron. From the de...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x066zh (person)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bv7g6p (person)

English novelist, poet, and dramatist. From the description of Autograph poem signed Lines -- on receiving an Inkstand from Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, on Christmas Eve. 1813. Oatlands : Oatlands, 1813. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591944 English novelist, poet and dramatist. From the description of Lines Written on returning from The Funeral Of the Rt. Honble. C.J. Fox, on Friday, Octr. 10th. 1806. Addrest to Lord Holland. ... : [London] : manus...

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h41rc8 (person)

English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...