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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). Autograph letter signed ("Byron") to Mr. S.W. Lunmoore[?], n.p., London], 19 May 1815. 2 pages, 16mo, integral address leaf (part torn away) with recipient's docket. A PEREMPTORY REBUKE FROM LORD BYRON. A cryptic letter dated four months after his disastrous marriage to Anna Isabella Millbank. It concerns a financial matter between himself and his brother-in-law. Byron was later viciously rumored to have had an incestuous relationship with his sister Augusta Leigh. Rather imperiously, Byron writes: "It has been intimated to me that Mr. Leigh, has paid the money for the furniture &c. If this be the case I desire to know on what pretext it is retained in your hands? & beg leave to say that it must immediately be accounted for. If there be any delay or interest for such, Mr. Leigh is the proper person to retain the price [when] the business is concluded, to this I have no objection, but I do protest against its being left to your pleasure to fix a time for accounting between that gentleman and myself...." Byron's finances were in a chaotic state, in spite of his wife's inheritance, and money was a constant concern in this period. The letter may refer to furnishings supplied for Lord and Lady Byron's new London home at 13 Piccadilly Terrace. The couple separated in 1816. Not in Letters , ed. Marchand and presumably unpublished. [ With: ] BYRON. Works . London: John Murray 1832-33. 17 volumes, 8 o. Nineteenth-century calf, spines gilt-lettered and -decorated, top edges gilt (some wear to joints). Provenance : J.F. Hinckley (bookplates). ALL BUT THE FIRST WITH AN AUTOGRAPH ITEM BOUND IN AT FRONT, including: Thomas Moore (autograph fragment); Robert Southey (autograph quotation); Samuel Rogers (ALS); William Lisle Bowles (autograph fragment); John Galt (autograph document); William Wordsworth (clipped signature dated 1840) and the Duke of Wellington (clipped signature). (18)