Major Byron manuscript material : 1 item, 1822

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Major Byron manuscript material : 1 item, 1822

· Forgery : "Percy Bysshe Shelley" to William Godwin, 13 Nov 1816 (S'ANA 0227). Tipped into purple morocco folder and shelved as *Pforz 558L 07. · Forgery : "Lord Byron" to John Hay, 1 Sep 1822 (B'ANA 0355). Bound in red folder and shelved as *Pforz 558R 24.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8237185

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Byron, George Gordon, Major, 1810-1882

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Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, Spanish forger of British Romantic literary manuscripts. He claimed to be -- but was unable to prove that he was -- the illegitimate son of Lord Byron. From the description of Major Byron manuscript material : 1 item, 1822 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79861771 George Gordon Byron was the name assumed by a forger who claimed to be the son of Lord Byron the poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : ...

Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824

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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...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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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...