Scope and arrangement
The Anne Isabella Byron, Lady Byron manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include two commonplace books from her youth, notes she kept in a printed journal, and two short essays. The bulk of the correspondence is from between 1835 and 1855 and discusses her personal life, her ideas on education and penal reform, and her philanthropy. Correspondents include: Joanna Baillie, playwright and poet; Fanny Kemble, actress and author; John Murray, publisher; Harriet Beecher Stowe, author; and more than forty others.
The Anne Isabella Byron, Lady Byron manuscript material is arranged in two series: