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Letters to Lord Byron of friends from Harrow School with surnames Peel to Wingfield, and letters of various members of the Drury family of Harrow; with a photocopy of notes regarding the Harrow School friends., 1803-1832, 1994.

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Identifier: MS.43515

Scope and Contents

The letters to Lord Byron of his fellow pupils at Harrow School have been placed at the start of the sequence in alphabetical order by correspondent surname, with their biographical notes placed at the end of this section. The Letters of the Drury family have then been ordered.

Letters to Lord Byron friends from Harrow School:

Letters of William Peel to Lord Byron, 1805: folios 1-12;

Letter of John Grey Porter to Lord Byron, 1806: folios 13-14;

Letters of John Cecil Tattersall to Lord Byron with a letter of an unidentified correspondent informing Byron of the death of Tattersall, 1805-1806, 1812: folios 15-44;

Letters of John Wingfield to Lord Byron, with a typescript copy of a letter, 1806, of Lord Byron to John Wingfield, 1806 and 1809, undated: folios 45-55;

Photocopy of notes relating to the Harrow School friends of Lord Byron by Chris Fletcher, 1994: folios 56-58;

Letters of the Drury family:

Letters of Henry Joseph Thomas Drury to Lord Byron, ?1807-1808, ?1812-1815 and undated: folios 59-85;

Letter of Henry Joseph Thomas Drury to John Murray [II], 1822, and one to John Murray [II] and John Wright, 1832: folios 86-88;

Letter of Joseph Drury to Lord Byron, 1811: folios 89-91;

Letter of Joseph Drury to Catherine Gordon Byron, 1805: folio 92;

Letters of Joseph Drury to John Hanson with one of John Hanson to Joseph Drury, 1803-1804: folios 93-99.

Dates

  • Creation: 1803-1832, 1994.

Creator

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Extent

100 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

i + 99 folios.

Other Finding Aids

Creator Chris Fletcher is unidentified and unindexed.

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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