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Press cuttings. Information artifacts.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Illustrations, pages, articles, or columns of text removed from books, newspapers, journals, or other printed sources. (AAT) 'Press cuttings' NLS preferred form.

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Forged letters and manuscripts of Lord Byron; with correspondence and notes relating to the forgeries and to George Gordon Du Luna Byron., 1841-2004, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43542
Scope and Contents The forged letters and manuscripts of Lord Byron, with accompanying notes, have been placed at the start of the sequence. Correspondence relating to the forgeries has then been ordered chronologically, with two copies of transcriptions of the forgeries placed at the end of the sequence.Forged letters and manuscripts and copies of the same of Lord Byron, with accompanying notes and memos of John Murray [V] and Virginia Murray placed after their corresponding letters, undated and...
Dates: 1841-2004, undated.

Letters of Augusta Leigh to John Cam Hobhouse, Francis Hodgson and Stephen Lushington., 1815-1843, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43481
Scope and Contents The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent name. The majority of the letters here are to Sir John Cam Hobhouse – these have been arranged chronologically, with undated letters at the end of the sequence. When first made available for consultation this folder of letters, before it was foliated, included a letter, 1802, of Augusta Leigh to Catherine Gordon Byron. That letter is now housed in MS.43480 ff.21-22.Letters and partial letters of Augusta...
Dates: 1815-1843, undated.

Letters of Lord Byron from the Library of Honresfield House., 1810-1813.

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Identifier: MS.50706
Scope and Contents

Letter of Lord Byron, Athens, to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 February 1811. folios 1-2.

Letter of Lord Byron, to Francis Hodgson, regarding bawdy letters by Robert Burns, 14 December 1813. folios 3-5.

Newspaper clipping regarding sale of the above letter of Byron to Hodgson, [1880s-1890s]. folio 6.

Wrapper of a letter addressed to John Cam Hobhouse, franked 21 and 22 November 1810 [letter not present]. folio 7.

Dates: 1810-1813.

Letters of Lord Byron to John Cam Hobhouse., 1813-1819.

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Identifier: MS.43439
Scope and Contents The letters of Lord Byron to John Cam Hobhouse have been arranged chronologically. A letter of Byron to Hobhouse and Douglas Kinnaird has been included at the end of the sequence.1813: folios 1-4;1814: folios 5-16;1815: folios 17-39;1816: folios 40-65;1819: folios 66-106, including a letter, 1819, of Countess Marina Querini Benzon to Lord Byron, which he forwards to Hobhouse, at f.71 and press cuttings at folios 102a-102b;...
Dates: 1813-1819.

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.