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Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Byron
Physical description
149 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence, and four diaries kept from 1814 to 1816 by John Cam Hobhouse.

Biographical/historical information

Familiarly known as Lord Byron, George Gordon Byron was an English poet, essayist, and dramatist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence, and four diaries kept from 1814 to 1816 by John Cam Hobhouse. The manuscripts include poems, portions of poems, essays, and notes for work, some of which are copied in Caroline Lamb's and in an unknown hand, as well as essays in manuscript about the author by W. H. Auden, Leigh Hunt, A. C. Swinburne, and others. The correspondence comprises letters by the author, dating from 1805 to 1823, to Robert Charles Dallas, Leigh Hunt, E. Noel Long, John Murray, and others. Also included are letters relating to the author, dating from 1816 to 1969, between various correspondents, including Frances Burney d'Arblay, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Ethel Colburn Mayne, John Murray, Robert Southey, and others, as well as a number of forged letters to Charles Victor de Bonstetten, Thomas Hookham, Douglas Kinnaird, and an unidentified recipient. Also present are letters to Byron from Leigh Hunt, Prince Mavrocordato, and Sir Walter Scott, dating from January through March 1822.

The Baron Byron, George Gordon Byron collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include Robert Charles Dallas, Henry R. M. Howard, W. T. H. Howe, Jerome Kern, Caroline Lamb, Elizabeth B. Pigot, Harry Bache Smith, Roderick Terry, and Owen D. Young.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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