The correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname.

Letters concerning a Lord Byron dedication to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1823-1934, including:

letters of Georg Friedrich Benecke probably to Douglas Kinnaird, 1822 and 1826: folios 1-4;

manuscript copy of a letter of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Georg Friedrich Benecke, undated: folios 5-6;

letters of Charles James Sterling to Lord Byron, 1823: folios 7-10;

manuscript German translation of part of ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto IV’, undated: folios 11-12;

single page of translation from an unknown source entitled, ‘From the German’, undated: folio 13;

letters of Leonard Leopold Mackall to John Murray IV, including a facsimile copy of the dedication to Goethe in ‘Sardanapalus’, a photostat of an article containing a transcription of a letter of John Murray to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and a press cutting of an article by Mackall in the ‘New York Herald Tribune’ and, 1923 and 1934: folios 14-19;

letter of John Murray VI to Leonard Leopold MacKall, 1934: folio 20;

copies of the manuscript of verses 21 and 22 of ’Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, by Lord Byron, undated: folios 21-23;



Letter of Sir Sandford Graham to Lord Byron, 1811: folios 24-25;

Letter of Lord Byron to David Grant, 1823: folios 26-27;

Letter of John Colleton Graves, 1823: folio 28.