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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 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.

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.