- Creator
- Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness, 1792-1860
- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 131 items
- Preferred Citation
- Anne Isabella Byron, Lady Byron manuscript material : 131 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Location
- Pforz MS
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request access to this collection.
Anne Isabella Noel Byron, Lady Byron, wife of the poet Lord Byron. In the years following their separation and his death, she dedicated herself to philanthropic causes, with a special interest in education of the poor. 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 her philanthropy. Correspondents include: Joanna Baillie, playwright and poet ; Fanny Kemble, actress and author ; John Murray, publisher ; Harriet Beecher-Stowe, author ; and over forty others.
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- Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851 (recipient)
- Baillie, Sophia Denman, 1771-1845 (recipient)
- Blakiston, Mary (recipient)
- Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness, 1792-1860
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
- Byron, Sophia Maria, 1756?-1821 (recipient)
- Chaloner, Louisa (recipient)
- Chapman, John, 1822-1894 (recipient)
- Cropper, James, 1773-1840 (recipient)
- Doyle, Selina (recipient)
- Goldsmid, Louisa Sophia, 1819-1908 (recipient)
- Grenville, George Neville, 1789-1854 (recipient)
- Hill, Alfred (recipient)
- Hill, Matthew Davenport, 1792-1872 (recipient)
- Hill, Rosamond Davenport, 1825-1902 (recipient)
- Hoar, William (recipient)
- Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 (recipient)
- Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 (recipient)
- Lawrence, Arabella (recipient)
- Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906 (recipient)
- Marsden, J. W (recipient)
- Montfort, Madame de (recipient)
- Murray, John, 1778-1843 (recipient)
- Peel, Susannah Clerke (recipient)
- Russell, J. Scott (John Scott), 1808-1882 (recipient)
- Scharf, George, 1788-1860 (recipient)
- Sherwin, Camilla (recipient)
- Siddons, Harriet, 1783-1844 (recipient)
- Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844 (recipient)
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 (recipient)
- Darton & Clark (recipient)
- Latham, Rice & Co (recipient)
- Longman & Co. (recipient)
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Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319