Manuscripts written by Byron

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1. Autograph material: 1 holograph signature
2. Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Canto 3, stanza 1-3, 97-100 [ie. 115-118] Holograph
3. [Childe Harold's pilgrimage. Canto 4, stanza 98] Holograph
4. "Curse of Minerva" [version of 312 lines]. Holograph
5. Curse of Minerva. Holograph. Miscellaneous notes relating to the ms.
6. Don Juan. Cantos 14 and 15. Holograph
7. Don Juan. Holograph of the 61st stanza of canto V
8. dream, The. Holograph. Inlaid ms. and text, privately printed for the author(?), on opposite pages; in binding supposed to have been executed especially for Byron by Burns and sons
9. English bards, and Scotch reviewers. Holograph
10. [episodes of Nisus and Euryalus, The] Holograph of lines 19-end of poem
11. "Levati. Viaggi di Petrarca. Vol. 4, p. 323." Holograph notes
12. Lines to be inserted after the line "The verse which Jeffrey praises in a pict." Holograph of 38 lines from "Hints from Horace" beginning "Again my Jeffrey!" and ending "renowned," and of accompanying footnote "To the Eclectic or Christian reviewers"
13. [Marino Faliero] Note to the Doge's last speech. Holograph. Written on the last page of a printed folio gathering, headed Extrait de l'Ouvrage. Histoire de la Republique de Venise. Par P. Daru, 1819
14. Mottos [sic] to the poems. Holograph
15. On a royal visit to the vaults, an earlier version of Windsor poetics. Holograph poem
16. On being asked ye "Origin of love." Holograph poem
17. prayer of nature, The. Manuscript copy in a hand similar to Byron's with "The prayer of Nature. Byron. 29th Dec. 1806" in the same hand at the end. An added note in another hand, "Copied for Mr. Moore Jany(?) 25 1828."
18. Stanzas. Holograph poem
19. "Through many a weary day gone by." Holograph poem. Incomplete. Consists of 7 stanzas, the penultimate having been cut off p. 3.
20. To the Po. Holograph poem
21. Unidentified manuscripts. By Lord Byron, and two other verses. The second dated
22. valentine, A. Holograph
23. Written on the opening of the Royal vaults at Windsor in the presence of H.R.H. the Prince Regent, an earlier version of Windsor poetics. Holograph poem
24. "Yet feign would I resist the spell." Copy of the poem in Lady Caroline Lamb's hand with her ms. note, "These are the first lines Ld. Byron wrote to me-I had made him the present of a gold neck chain and those lines were written at the moment."