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Manuscripts.

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and other material relating to the article 'True history of Lady Byron's life', in the 'Atlantic', by Harriet Beecher-Stowe., 1869-1870, 1909.

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Identifier: MS.43539
Scope and Contents Correspondence has been placed in alphabetical order by correspondent surname, before related manuscripts, pamphlets and other printed material. A copy of ‘True story of Lord and Lady Byron’ has been placed with original pagination at the end of the sequence.Letter of Charles Dickens to John Murray [III], 1869: folios 1-2;Letters of Louisa Anne Emily Ellis, Baroness Seaford, to John Murray [III], 1870: folios 3-6;Letters of Whitwell Elwin to John Murray...
Dates: 1869-1870, 1909.

Manuscript of John Cam Hobhouse concerning the destruction of the memoirs of Lord Byron; with related letters., 1824-1869.

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Identifier: MS.43534
Scope and Contents Following the death of Lord Byron in April 1824, various interested parties met at the house of John Murray on 17th May of that year. These included John Murray [II], Thomas Moore, John Cam Hobhouse and representatives of both Lady Byron and Augusta Leigh. After a discussion, the group decided that the manuscript containing the memoirs of Lord Byron should be burned and they proceeded to do so in the drawing room fireplace. This act caused great controversy and the items in this folder...
Dates: 1824-1869.

Miscellaneous papers primarily of Lord Byron., 1802-1824, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43354
Scope and Contents Part of a page extracted from one of the school books of Byron from Harrow, with an annotation by John Murray [III],1804, 1865: folio 1;Note of Susan Vaughan to Byron, including an annotation in the hand of Byron, with related note, 1812, undated: folios 2-2a;Manuscript of a statement of annuities and loans, with mention of Elizabeth Massingberd, in the hand of Byron, 1812: folios 3-5;Notes in the hand of Byron, possibly relating to his speech to the House...
Dates: 1802-1824, undated.

Two manuscripts by William Makepeace Thackeray., 1823-? 1850.

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Identifier: MS.42573
Scope and Contents Folio 1 : manuscript, ? 1828 (watermark), "Byron and Marceau", relating to Lord Byron`s interest in the French general François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, about whom he composed a eulogy in "Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage" (Third Canto, LVI and LVII). Thackeray`s manuscript includes a copy of a letter to, and a copy of a letter of Byron concerning Marceau-Desgraviers : (i) 30 January 1823 : Madame Serjent, Marceau-Desgravier`s elder sister,...
Dates: 1823-? 1850.