Letters mostly to Lord Byron of correspondents with surnames Davenport-Davies; including miscellaneous material concerning the life, letters and works of Scrope Berdmore Davies., 1810-2003.
Scope and Contents
The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent name and then chronologically, with miscellaneous material ordered at the end of the sequence..
Letter of Richard Alfred Davenport to Lord Byron, 1815: folios 1-2;
Letters of Margaret Davidson to Lord Byron, 1812-1816: folios 3-6;
Letters of Scrope Berdmore Davies to Lord Byron, 1809-1818 and undated: folios 7-32;
Letters of Scrope Berdmore Davies to John Murray II, 1836: folios 33-34;
Photocopy of chapter 5 of ‘Beaten Paths; and those who trod them’, by Thomas Colley Gratton (London, 1865), Vol. II, which relates to Scrope Berdmore Davies: folios 35-47;
Photocopy of selected pages of a sales catalogue of Maggs Bros., no. 531, 1930: folios 48-50;
Printed copy of caricatures by Scrope Davies that appear in a letter of Davies to Lord Byron (original at ff.8-9 of this folder), with the text probably for two exhibition labels for the same letter, one of which is from the 1974 'Byron: an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death in the Greek War of Liberation, 19 April 1824' at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London., 1974 and undated: folios 51-53;
List of corrections for ‘The rise and fall of a Regency dandy’, by Timothy Adrian John Burnett, originally published by John Murray in 1981: folio 54;
Letter of an unknown correspondent to Beatrice Hanns enclosing photocopies of an inventory of the estate of Scrope Berdmore Davies, 1982: folios 55-69;
Letter of Martin R Davies to Virginia Murray with an envelope enclosing photographs of the grave of Scrope Berdmore Davies, 1984: folios 70-74;
Letter of Virginia Murray to James O Edwards with a photocopy of the signature of Scrope Berdmore Davies and a print of an email of James O Edwards to Virginia Murray, 2003: folios 75-77;
Typescript transcripts of letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Scrope Berdmore Davies, undated: folio 78;
Printed note relating to Charles Skinner Matthews, undated: folio 79.
Dates
- Creation: 1810-2003.
Creator
- Davenport, Richard Alfred (author and publisher) (Person)
- Davidson, Margaret (relative of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron) (Person)
- Davies, Martin R (solicitor, Bristol, and indirect descendant of Scrope Berdmore Davies) (Person)
- Davies, Scrope Berdmore (Senior Fellow of King's College, Cambridge) (Person)
- Edwards, James O (American book collector) (Person)
- Hobhouse, John Cam, Baron Broughton (politician) (Person)
- Murray, Virginia Gwendoline (wife of John Murray (VII), publisher, née Lascelles) (Person)
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) (Recipient, Person)
- Davies, Scrope Berdmore (Senior Fellow of King's College, Cambridge) (Recipient, Person)
- Edwards, James O (American book collector) (Recipient, Person)
- Hanss, Beatrice (member of the Byron Society) (Recipient, Person)
- Murray, John Samuel (publisher (II)) (1778-1843) (Recipient, Person)
- Murray, Virginia Gwendoline (wife of John Murray (VII), publisher, née Lascelles) (Recipient, Person)
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
80 Leaves
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
i + 79 folios.
Bibliography
Grattan, Thomas Coolley, 'Beaten paths; and those who trod them', (London, 1862). National Library of Scotland shelfmark SS.5.
Victoria and Albert Museum, 'Byron: an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death in the Greek War of Liberation 19 April 1824; 30 May-25 August 1974' (London, 1974). National Library of Scotland shelfmark GME.2/8.(5).
Subject
Repository Details
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