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Ashley MS 4740-4750

Record Id:

036-001979991

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001978147

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000032.0x000338

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ISAD(G)

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Ashley MS 4740-4750

Title:

Letters (11) from Lord Byron, ten to John Murray, and one (4744) to John Cam Hobhouse; 15 May 1819-21 Dec. 1822. The letters contain, among other matters, contemptuous comments on the work of John Keats, discussion of 'Don Juan' and its reception by the critics, and accounts of Byron's relations with Margarita Cogni (La Fornarina), Countess Teresa Guiccioli, and Lady Byron. The letters also treat of Byron's feat in swimming the Hellespont, his natural daughter Allegra, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. See also Ashley MS 5161 and Ashley MS 5162, and Add MS 42093, for further criticism by Byron of Keats' poetry. Printed in Marchand, op. cit., vols. vi, vii, viii, x, 1976-1980, passim. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 65, 66, 68; xi, pp. 26-42.

Eleven quarto volumes.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Ashley Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001978147
036-001979991

Is part of:

Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts

Ashley MS 4740-4750 : Letters (11) from Lord Byron, ten to John Murray, and one (4744) to John Cam Hobhouse; 15 May 1819-21 Dec. 1822. The…

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032-001978147[1265]/036-001979991

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1819

End Date:

1822

Date Range:

15 May 1819-21 Dec 1822

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