BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, 6th Lord . Autograph letter signed ("Byron") to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Massingberd, Little Hampton, 26 August 1806. 1 page, small 4to, 228 x 183 mm. (9 x 7 1/4 in.), integral address leaf with panel in Byron's hand, stamped postmarks and remains of red wax seal with armorial bearings, paper watermarked "C Willmott 1804," a strip of blank address leaf missing, clean tear at one fold intersection of letter. A rare early letter -- hasty and breathless in style -- from the youthful poet, who had matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge the previous October and whose first book, Fugitive Poems , was to appear in three months time. From the home of his friend, E.N. Long (whom he was visiting), Byron writes to Mrs. Massingberd, a widow in whose house at 16 Piccadilly he often lodged when in London. Later, when Byron's debts mounted, she acted as a guarantor of various loans to him; by the time he left England in 1809 these debts amounted to 8 or 9 thousand pounds. "My dear Madam, I lose no Time in informing you, that my Lancashire Course is gained , and is extremely valuable, I shall be in Town in few days, I have hardly time to sign myself, your obliged & Sincere...Byron." In a scrawled postscript, Byron adds: "If my Parcels arrive, retain them till my arrival.--Adieu." Not in Byron, Letters , ed. J. Marchand, and apparently unpublished.
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, 6th Lord . Autograph letter signed ("Byron") to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Massingberd, Little Hampton, 26 August 1806. 1 page, small 4to, 228 x 183 mm. (9 x 7 1/4 in.), integral address leaf with panel in Byron's hand, stamped postmarks and remains of red wax seal with armorial bearings, paper watermarked "C Willmott 1804," a strip of blank address leaf missing, clean tear at one fold intersection of letter. A rare early letter -- hasty and breathless in style -- from the youthful poet, who had matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge the previous October and whose first book, Fugitive Poems , was to appear in three months time. From the home of his friend, E.N. Long (whom he was visiting), Byron writes to Mrs. Massingberd, a widow in whose house at 16 Piccadilly he often lodged when in London. Later, when Byron's debts mounted, she acted as a guarantor of various loans to him; by the time he left England in 1809 these debts amounted to 8 or 9 thousand pounds. "My dear Madam, I lose no Time in informing you, that my Lancashire Course is gained , and is extremely valuable, I shall be in Town in few days, I have hardly time to sign myself, your obliged & Sincere...Byron." In a scrawled postscript, Byron adds: "If my Parcels arrive, retain them till my arrival.--Adieu." Not in Byron, Letters , ed. J. Marchand, and apparently unpublished.
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