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Richard Byron manuscript material : 2 items
- Title
- Richard Byron manuscript material : 2 items, 1784-1790
- Author
- Byron, Richard, 1724-1811.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Pforz MS | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 2 items
- Summary
- · To Sophia Byron, née Trevannion, wife of John "Foul-weather Jack" Byron; she was the paternal grandmother of Byron, the poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Feb 1784 : (B'ANA 0765) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Winston : begins, "We are under very great & unfeigned concern for the loss of Lady Conyers [i.e., Lady Amelia Darcy, mother of Augusta Leigh, half sister of Byron, the poet] ..."; with genealogical notes in a later hand.
- · To James Sykes, navy agent : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Nov 1790 : (B'ANA 0613) : enclosing a letter to his son which he requests Sykes will forward [enclosed letter not present]. In 1801, Richard Byron's son (also Richard, later to become Rear-Admiral) married Sarah, the daughter of James Sykes.
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Rev. Hon. Richard Byron, Rector in Haughton le Skerne, County Durham, England. He was the great-uncle to Lord Byron, the poet.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 80787386
- Author
- Byron, Richard, 1724-1811.
- Title
- Richard Byron manuscript material : 2 items, 1784-1790
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Rev. Hon. Richard Byron, Rector in Haughton le Skerne, County Durham, England. He was the great-uncle to Lord Byron, the poet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Sykes, James, navy agent, addressee.Byron, Sophia, -1790, addressee.
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS