Scope and Contents The box containing the specimens contains a labels reading "A portion of hte bone and bristle of the sea snake found off Orkney 1808. Sent with a descriptiove letter by Joanna Baillie to Lady Byron, for Byron, 1815".The box also has notes and captions relating to the contents attached to the box. There is also related correspondence, press cuttings and notes:Letter of Joanna Baillie to Anne Isabella Byron, Lady Byron, 1815: folios 1-2;...

Scope and Contents The letters in this file largely relate to research conducted in the 1930s into a work entitled ‘Unpublished Letters of Lord Byron’ edited by Henry Schultes Schutess-Young. The work was to be published in 1872 by R Bentley, but was pulled from the press following controversy surrounding the ownership of the letters and rights to publish. The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent surname.Letters of Richard Bentley to John Murray [V], including...

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The letters held are all that is left of a once "immense" correspondence concerning the proposal to publish the dictionary. Much of the correspondence was destroyed in 1942.

Scope and Contents Contemporary letters have been placed at the beginning of the folder, arranged alphabetically by correspondent surname. Some of the letters have been annotated during legal proceedings relating to the publications. Later letters relating to these works and the court case are then placed, in alphabetical order by correspondent surname.Further proofs of ‘Correspondence of Lord Byron’ and a press cutting relating to the work of Robert Charles Dallas have been added to the end of the...

Scope and Contents This folder contains some correspondence relating to Thomas James Wise and other correspondence relating to the sale and provenance of items by or relating to Lord Byron. The Wise correspondence has been placed chronologically before that relating to the manuscripts and objects of Lord Byron. The latter has been organised by correspondent surname with miscellaneous material placed at the end of the sequence.Draft of a letter of John Murray [IV] to Thomas James Wise. 1928: folio...

Scope and Contents The letters have been arranged by correspondent surname and then chronologically within those sections.Letter of William John Courthope to John Murray IV, 1908: folios 1-10; Letters and notes of Thomas James Wise to John Murray IV and John Murray V, largely relating to a bibliography of Lord Byron of:1921: folios 11-17;1924: folios 18-19;1926 with a copy of a reply of John Murray IV: folios 20-24;1928: folios 25-28;...

Scope and Contents The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent surname. Further correspondence has been added to the end of the sequence.Letters of John Cann Bailey to George Prothero, 1916 and undated: folios 1-4;Letter of Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, to George Prothero, 1908: folios 5-7;Letter of Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour, to George Prothero, 1906: folio 8;Letters of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, to...