John "Foul-weather Jack" Byron manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Pforz MS", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"19500", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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{"value"=>"John \"Foul-weather Jack\" Byron manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"Byron, John, 1723-1786", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"<p>John Byron, British naval officer. His frequent bad luck in weather conditions earned him the nickname \"Foul-weather Jack.\" In 1768, he published a narrative of the struggle for survival after a shipwreck, which later supplied suggestions for the shipwreck scene in Don Juan by Lord Byron, John Byron's grandson.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>To Baron Shuldham, naval officer and politician : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 May 1778 : (B'ANA 0536) : concerning his recent orders to prepare a squadron.|||To James Sykes, navy agent : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Jun 1781 : (B'ANA 0686) : begins, \"I have opened the letter you thought from the master of the Ironspine ...\" Mounted opposite p. 8 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"To Baron Shuldham, naval officer and politician : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 May 1778 : (B'ANA 0536) : concerning his recent orders to prepare a squadron."}

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{"value"=>"John \"Foul-weather Jack\" Byron manuscript material : 2 items, 1778-1781, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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