Found 111 collections related to Byron%2C George Gordon Byron%2C Baron%2C 1788-1824

To Lord Byron, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Feb 1814 : (B'ANA 0694) : thanking him for a copy of The Corsair; with high praise, including, "You have, my Lord, opened your heart to moral beauty, striking on its finest chord." Mounted opposite p. 75 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron. less

Autograph penmanship exercises signed : [ca. 1791?] : (B'ANA 0690) : 1 sheet, apparantly from a copy book, in her juvenile hand; "Try to write well and quickly" repeated 15 times on recto; an exercise using the word "Emolument" on the verso. Mounted between pp. 32-33 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron. less

Sister Marianna delle Vergine Addolorata (known in the world as Caterina Fabbri), Italian nun. She founded the Capuchin Convent in Bagnacavallo, Ravenna, which served as a fashionable school for girls of noble families. Lord Byron's daughter by Claire Claremont, Allegra, was brought to the convent in January 1821; she died there in April 1822, at age five. To Antonio Lega Zambelli, Lord Byron's steward and secretary : 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Nov 1821 : (B'ANA 0387) : from Bagnacavallo : in Italian; reporting on the health of Byron's child, Allegra, praising her character, and saying that she enquires after her father and her uncle [meaning Shelley]; asking Lega Zambelli to convey all to Byron. less

Rev. Hon. Richard Byron, Rector in Haughton le Skerne, County Durham, England. He was the great-uncle to Lord Byron, the poet. To James Sykes, navy agent : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Nov 1790 : (B'ANA 0613) : enclosing a letter to his son which he requests Sykes will forward [enclosed letter not present]. In 1801, Richard Byron's son (also Richard, later to become Rear-Admiral) married Sarah, the daughter of James Sykes. less

The Rodd family was from London, England. Collection consists of letters to Thomas Rodd, Jr., bookseller in London, and to his brother, Horatio Rodd, dealer in books, pictures and prints. Also, note on Rodd family genealogy, notebook of Thomas Rodd, records of book expenditures, memoranda, and other materials. less

Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, English poet and essayist. To Mrs. Sherwin : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Feb 1870 : (B'ANA 0659) : from 10 Neville St. S.W. : begins, "I do not know whether you have read the article in the last Quarterly Review on the Byron scandal ...". less

Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, Viennese-born sculptor in Britain. He was among the most popular, prolific, and successful sculptors of late nineteenth-century England. Among his many works, he is known for sculpting the head of Queen Victoria on coinage, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. To E. J. Trelawny, writer and adventurer : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Sep 1876 : (B'ANA 0213) : mentioning his work on a Byron statue. less

Autograph marriage certificate, signed "Wentworth" : 30 Dec 1880 : (B'ANA 0657) : printed document (printed and sold by Thomas Scott, 1, Warwick Court, Holborn) filled out in ink; certifying his marriage to Mary Caroline Stuart Wortley, performed by Stephen W. Lawley at the Parish Church in the Parish of St. Anne, Westminster, Middlesex. With a list of those present (including Jane C. Lovelace; [Lord] Wharncliffe; George Hamilton; L[ionel] King Noel; W. H. Pollen; Robert Browning; Edward J. Poynter; J[ohn] H[ungerford] Pollen; A. J. Ross, D.D.; Archibald Stuart Wortley); and the signature the parish rector, Nugent Wade. Confer Pforz MS (MISC 0772), a Robert Browning letter, for a reference to the wedding. less

Alexandros Maurokordatos, Greek statesman. To Count Pietro Gamba, Italian nobleman : 1 letter signed : 14/16 Jul 1825 : (B'ANA 0346) : from Naples de Romanie : in French, body in a scribal hand; agreeing in the name of the Greek government to the conditions specified by Gamba in his letter regarding the English loan to the Greeks (see B'ANA 0345). less

Ada King, countess of Lovelace, née Augusta Ada Byron, English mathematician and computer pioneer. She was the only legitimate child of George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, the poet. · To Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer pioneer : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. Jul-Aug 1843] : (B'ANA 0052) : from Ockham : begins, "It is an omission not to have sent me the drawings to which continual reference is made throughout your packet of papers ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. Jul-Aug 1843] : (B'ANA 0053) : [no place] : begins, "The solution was (as you supposed) of the simplest description." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. Jul-Aug 1843] : (B'ANA 0091) : from St. James' Sqre. : begins, "I have just told Wea[t]stone that I cannot consent to your making the reuse of the remaining notes. So send them to me at once, pray." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Aug [1843] : (B'ANA 0090) : from Ockham Park : begins, "In consequence of the enclosed, I am starting for Town; I shall send this to you immediately on my arrival ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Aug [1843] : (B'ANA 0054) : from Ashley Combe : begins, "We are quite delighted at yr (somewhat unhoped for) proposal, this mor.g received.". less

Albert Marshman Palmer, American theater manager and entrepreneur. To Edgar Mels, newspaper editor and theatrical writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Nov 1899 : (B'ANA 0236) : from The Richard Mansfield Co., 13 & 15 West 28th Street, New York (printed stationery) : begins, "Mr. Mansfield has referred to me your play, entitled 'Thyrza', and I return it to you herewith. I have read it very carefully and with considerable interest - it is not, however, suited to the cares of Mr. Mansfield, nor do I think that the character of Lord Byron is one which any dramatist could make acceptable to him for stage representation ...". less

To Teresa Guiccioli, Lord Byron's "last attachment" : 36 autograph letters signed : 26 Jul 1823--17 Dec 1831 : (B'ANA 0400-0435) : from Genoa and Trieste : in Engliah, French, and Italian; all largely concerned with Byron, including news of his journey to Greece; his illness and death; the papers which he had left in Barry's hands; and later letters referring to books about Byron. less

Henry Chambers, an 86 year old man from Holywell, Flintshire, "embittered by the reflection of better days," who had apparently received alms from Lord Byron and Augusta Leigh. To Augusta Leigh, half-sister of Lord Byron : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Aug 1824 : (B'ANA 0220) : sending verses (no longer enclosed) on the death of Lord Byron. less

Henry Drury, English classical scholar. He was an assistant master at Harrow School, where he was the tutor of a young Lord Byron, who in adulthood became a friendly correspondent. To John Leycester Adolphus, barrister and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Oct 1831 : (B'ANA 0136) : reagarding a question relating to Byron studies ; offering some autographs of people discussed in Moore's Life of Byron ; listing some of the Byron-related items in his library. With a pencil drawing of an unidentified woman, by an unknown hand. less

Henry Dunn, Maltese shopkeeper in Leghorn (Livorno), Tuscanny, Italy. According to tradition, Lord Byron was in Dunn's shop when he heard of Shelley's death (cf. Prothero edition of Byron's Letters and Journals, v. VI, p. 69n). To Lord Byron, poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Jul 1822 : (B'ANA 0546) : reporting that he'd paid 200 Tuscan crowns toward the relief of the Irish poor, as per Byron's orders. Endorsed by Thomas Hall, the English chaplain at Leghorn. less

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, British statesman and prime minister. · Autograph memorandum : [Oct 1838] : (B'ANA 0193) : from Windsor : 3 pages (double sheet); relating an anecdote about how George Byron, 7th Baron Byron met a witness to his parents' wedding; begins, "The present L.d Byron had great difficulty in proving his father's marriage in order to establish his right to the title ...". less

George Burlton, captain in the Royal Navy of the warship Boyne. See The Royal Kalendar, 1813, p. 163, year 1795. On p. 152, under "King's Ships in Comission," The Boyne is listed under Rr - Adm. Sir H. B. Neale, bt., and Capt. C. Jones. To John Wilson Croker, politician and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Aug 1813 : (B'ANA 0221) : on giving Lord Byron passage in the Boyne. On July 13, Byron had written Croker, then Secretary to the Admiralty, for passage in the Boyne or any other ship-of-war bound for the Mediterranean. On learning, however, that he could not take along Augusta and his servants, he declined the proferred passage (Marchand, 399, 403 n.1). less

James Hamilton Browne, the Scottish philhellene who joined Lord Byron as he sailed for Greece from Italy in the summer of 1823. Browne claimed to have been discharged from the British service for his sympathy to the Greeks in their war for independence from the Ottoman empire. In September of 1823, it was decided that Browne, along with E. J. Trelawny, would go ahead of Byron to assess the situation on the mainland of Greece. Browne and Trelwany traveled together as far as Hydra, after which Browne returned to London to assist in raising a loan. To Teresa Guiccioli, Lord Byron's Italian mistress : 1 autograph letter signed : 20 Mar 1824 : (B'ANA 0438) : from London : in Italian; introducing "Signor Deardon, il quale va per l'aggiustamento di certi affari legali con Milord Byron," who will take any letters she may care to give him for Byron and her brother, Pietro Gamba. less

Autograph description of the Villa Dupuy at Monterero, near Leghorn : [ca. 1822] : (B'ANA 0303) : 2 ¹/₄ pp., in Italian; with a note in the hand of Teresa Guiccioli on p. [4]. The villa was occupied by Lord Byron and Guiccioli, with her father and brother, from the end of May to the beginning of July 1822. less

Captain John Byron, father of English Romantic poet Lord Byron. His wild reputation earned him the nickname "Mad Jack.". To a Monsieur Perigand : 1 autograph letter signed : 30 Sep 1781 : (B'ANA 0530) : expressing shame at some incident, mentioning a revision of his father's biography. less

To Miss Blackburn : 1 autograph letter (fragment) signed : [no date] : (MISC 4023.62b) : [no place] : reads in full, "...last night - I remain / Dear Miss Blackburn / Yours very sincerely / John Murray." Mounted in the Mary Anne Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

To Richard Bentley, publisher (grandson of the first Richard Bentley) : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Mar 1906 : (B'ANA 0628) : from 50, Albemarle Street, W. (printed stationery) : begins, "The publication of Lord Lovelace's vile book has once more called attention to the 'Byron Mystery' ...". less

John W. Burgen, of London. Burgen composed a poem in tribute to Lord Byron and inscribed it in the visitor's album at Byron's tomb in the parish church at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire on October 1, 1832. In 1834 the contents of the album were published under the title Byroniana, edited by J. M. Langford. Poem (transcript), "Stanzas written in the Book at Hucknall -- the burial place of Lord Byron" : [composed 1 Oct 1832; transcription date unknown; w/m = 1830] : (B'ANA 0315) : begins, "Not in that Palace, where the dead repose / in splendid holiness -- where Time hath spread ..." Formerly among the papers of Lord Byron's "last attachment," the Countess Teresa Guiccioli. Guiccioli visited Newstead and Hucknall Torkard in December 1832; this item was perhaps copied for her on that occasion. less