- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 4 pages (double sheet), 33 cm (folio); 4 pages (double sheet), 33 cm (folio)
- Preferred Citation
- Lines on the Gallic Nation, on their desertion of Napoleon : [manuscript copy], 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 an in-person research appointment.
· Manuscript poem copied in the hand of "Miss Hazlet" [possibly Margaret Hazlitt (1770-1841)]. Nine ten-line stanzas; begins, "Oh! shame to thee, land of the Gaul, / Oh! shame to thy children and thee ...." Published in various 19th century sources under the title, "Ode," and ascribed to Lord Byron, it is not in fact by Byron (see J. McGann's edition of Byron's complete works, volume VII, page 111). Copy date unknown; the watermark is 1814. On page 4 of the folded double sheet is an authentication note in the hand of Thomas Hardy, the radical bootmaker and founder of the London Corresponding Society, which reads in full: "The above excellent lines on the Gallic Nation on their desertion of Napoleon Bonaparte, written by Lord Byron. Copied by Miss Hazlet and sent to Thomas Hardy.".
Key terms
Names
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 (dubious author)
- Hardy, Thomas, 1752-1832 (annotator)
- Hazlitt, Margaret, 1770-1841 (scribe)
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
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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