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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 2 Collections and/or Records:

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

 File
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 mostly of, to or concerning Lord Byron with correspondents with surnames from Hogg to Hoppner; including letters relating to the 'Hoppner scandal'., 1814-1823.

 File
Identifier: MS.43448
Scope and Contents The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent surname, with those relating to the 'Hoppner scandal' at the end of the sequence. A further letter of Hoppner to Lord Byron has been added at the end of the sequence. When first made available for consultation, this letter had been housed in Ms.43526, but was moved to the current location during cataloguing.Letters of James Hogg to Lord Byron, 1814 and 1816: folios 1-14;Letters of Anne Louise Germaine...
Dates: 1814-1823.