Lock of hair of Allegra Byron [realia]

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unitid

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

{"value"=>"22114", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Lock of hair of Allegra Byron [realia]"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1821-1822?", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"questionable", "normal"=>"1821/1822"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"ca. 40 strands"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1821

date_inclusive_end

1822

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>In a letter dated 3 August 1818, Lord Byron described his eighteen-month-old daughter Allegra to his half-sister, Augusta Leigh: \"...she is very pretty -- remarkably intelligent -- and a great favorite with everybody ... she has very blue eyes -- and that singular forehead -- fair curly hair -- and a devil of a Spirit -- but that is Papa's ...\" (cf. Marchand's Byron's letters and journals, v. 6, p. 62).</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

phystech

{"value"=>"<p>human hair; 3.25 x 8.5 cm (frame)</p>"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>A lock of golden blond hair. Mounted in clear plastic envelope within two-leaved paperboard windowed frame. Along with a nineteenth-century attestation in an unidentified hand; text reads in full, \"Hair of 'Alega [sic] Byron' / child of Shelley's the Poets / wife's Sister / She signed herself 'Claire' / see Letter in British Museum / F. A. K.\" Library records indicate the hair clipping was taken from Thomas Moore's copy of William Martin Leake's Historical Outline of the Greek Revolution (1826)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

keydate

1821

prefercite

{"value"=>"Lock of hair of Allegra Byron [realia], Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"In a letter dated 3 August 1818, Lord Byron described his eighteen-month-old daughter Allegra to his half-sister, Augusta Leigh: \"...she is very pretty -- remarkably intelligent -- and a great favorite with everybody ... she has very blue eyes -- and that singular forehead -- fair curly hair -- and a devil of a Spirit -- but that is Papa's ...\" (cf. Marchand's Byron's letters and journals, v. 6, p. 62). ", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

ca. 40 strands

date_start

1821

date_end

1822

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