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- Creator
- Spencer Smith, Constance, 1785-1829
- Call number
- Pforz Ms
- Physical description
- 1 item
- Preferred Citation
- Constance Spencer Smith manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
Constance Spencer Smith, wife of British diplomat and politician John Spencer Smith. Lord Byron fell in love with her in Malta in 1809 and wrote several poems about her. · To "Mon cher frere" : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Sep 1810 : (B'ANA 0692) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Palerma : in French; begins, "Je ne doute pas que vous ayez reçu la lettre que je vous ecrivis de Gibraltar ..." Mounted on the second leaf following page 58 in volume I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.
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Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319