Add MS 51639

(1) Correspondence of the 3rd Lord and Lady Holland with George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, the poet; 4 Feb 1812 - 12 Mar 1823, n.d. Included are several drafts of the Address written by Byron for the opening of the new Drury Lane Theatre on 10 Oct 1812 and printed in The Genuine Rejected Addresses, presented to the Committee of Management for Drurly Lane Theatre; preceded by that written by Lord Byron and adopted by the Committee (1812), pp.1-3 (ff. 25-27v, 41-43, 46-50, 52-53v, 73-74v, 80-81v, 92-93v, 96-97); also an undtaed verse written by Lord Holland after Byron's death on 19 Apr 1824 (f. 176). The original letters of Lord and Lady Holland in this correspondence were returned from Byron's papers, in Mar 1825, by J. C. Hobhouse (Recollections of a long life, ed. Lady Dorchester, iii, 1910, p.95); ff. 192-194 (see below) were probably included too. Letters in this correspondence have been printed, not always exactly, by R. E. Prothero (Lord Ernle), The works of Lord Byron: letters and journals, ii (1898), pp. 102-173 passim; iii (1899), p. 317, and J. C. Hobhouse, op. cit., ii (1909), pp. 285, 286; also 6th Earl of Ilchester, The Home of the Hollands 1605-1820 (1937), pp. 264-279, and L. Marchand, Byron, a biography (1957), i, pp. 319, 325, 354, 363, 385; ii, p. 583. ff. 1-176.

(2) Letters to the 3rd Lord and Lady Holland from Byron's wife, Anne Isabella née Milbanke; 6 Aug 1815 - 17 Mar 1830. See Ilchester, op. cit., p. 278. ff. 177-185.

(3) Letters to the 3rd Lord and Lady Holland from Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh née Byron; 15 Aug - c Nov 1824. ff. 186-191v.

(4) Letter to Lord Byron from Henry Stephen Fox, diplomat; 8 Dec 1812. ff. 192-194.

(5) Two of the rejected Addresses for the opening of the new Drury Lane Theatre, the first submitted by Horace Twiss and printed in The Genuine Rejected Addresses..., pp. 5-7, the second anonymous, not printed in this work and written on or before 24 Sep 1812. Other rejected Addresses are at Add MS 27899 and Add MS 27900. ff. 195-200v.