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Letters. Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence concerning the separation of Lord and Lady Byron., 1816-1870.

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Identifier: MS.43520
Scope and Contents The correspondence and other items in this folder relate to the separation of Lord Byron and his wife, Anne Isabella Noel Byron (Lady Byron), in early 1816. Some of these letters appeared in 'Contemporary account of the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also of the destruction of Lord Byron's memoirs' (London; privately printed, 1870). The letters have been arranged chronologically.Some of the letters are housed with their exhibition labels from the 1974 'Byron: an exhibition...
Dates: 1816-1870.

Letters of Augusta Leigh to Lord Byron, Anne Isabella Noel Byron, Catherine Gordon Byron and John Hanson; with one letter of George Anson Byron to Augusta Leigh., 1802-1830, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43480
Scope and Contents The letters of Augusta Leigh to Lord Byron have been placed at the start of the sequence with the rest of the letters arranged alphabetically by correspondent name. The letter of Leigh to Catherine Gordon Byron was originally included, unfoliated, in MS.43481.Letters of Augusta Leigh to Lord Byron with excerpts of letters of Lord Byron to Augusta Leigh in the hand of the latter, 1811-1824 and undated: folios 1-13;Letters and copies of letters of Augusta Leigh to Anne...
Dates: 1802-1830, undated.

Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron., 1815-1818.

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Identifier: MS.43442
Scope and Contents

The letters have been arranged in chronological order.

1815: folios 1-86, including a copy of a letter of John Cam Hobhouse to John Hanson at f.31 and a copy of a letter of Hobhouse to Lady Byron at ff.44-45;

1816: folios 87-94;

1818: folios 95-112.

Dates: 1815-1818.

Letters of various correspondents relating to the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; with some typescript copies of letters relating to the same., 1816-1937, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43522
Scope and Contents The letters in this folder concern the separation of Lord and Lady Byron. The letters have been arranged in three sections: contemporary letters; letters of and to John Murray III and IV concerning the letters relating to the separation of Lord and Lady Byron; and an excerpt and typescript copies of letters concerning the separation of Lord and Lady Byron.Contemporary letters:Letters of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle to John Cam Hobhouse, 1816: folios 1-10;...
Dates: 1816-1937, undated.

Letters to Catherine Gordon Byron; and letters of Anne Isabella Noel Byron, Lady Byron., 1808-1857.

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Identifier: MS.43411
Scope and Contents Letters to Catherine Gordon Byron have been placed before those of Anne Isablla Noel Byron, Lady Byron.Letters to or concerning Catherine Gordon Byron:Letter of Margaret Abercromby to Lady Catherine Gordon Byron, [1811]: folios 1-2;Letter of John Birch to Lady Catherine Gordon Byron, 1808: folios 3-4;Letter of William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, to Catherine Gordon Byron, 1810: folios 5-6;Letter of John Dell to Catherine Gordon...
Dates: 1808-1857.