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Creator
Byron of Rochdale, Elizabeth Shaw Byron, Baroness, d. 1788
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
1 item
Preferred Citation
Elizabeth Shaw Byron, Lady Byron manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Elizabeth Shaw Byron, Lady Byron, wife of William Byron, 5th Baron Byron. She separated from her husband some time following his trial for the murder of their neighbor, William Chaworth. She was the great-aunt of the George Gordon, Lord Byron, the poet. To Joshua Sharp, Esq., at Lincoln's Inn, New Square, London : 1 autograph letter signed "E. Byron" : 22 Nov 1773 : (B'ANA 0685) : from Petersham, Surrey; with instructions for when he receives his writings from a Mr. Pickering; also, that a Mr. Gould seems to think everything will be ready for Sharp's perusal. Mounted on 3rd album leaf following p. 6 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.

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