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John "Foul-weather Jack" Byron manuscript material : 2 items
- Title
- John "Foul-weather Jack" Byron manuscript material : 2 items, 1778-1781
- Author
- Byron, John, 1723-1786.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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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- Found In
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Description
- 2 items
- Summary
- · To Baron Shuldham, naval officer and politician : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 May 1778 : (B'ANA 0536) : concerning his recent orders to prepare a squadron.
- · To James Sykes, navy agent : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Jun 1781 : (B'ANA 0686) : begins, "I have opened the letter you thought from the master of the Ironspine ..." Mounted opposite p. 8 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- John Byron, British naval officer. His frequent bad luck in weather conditions earned him the nickname "Foul-weather Jack." In 1768, he published a narrative of the struggle for survival after a shipwreck, which later supplied suggestions for the shipwreck scene in Don Juan by Lord Byron, John Byron's grandson.
- Call Number
- Pforz MS
- OCLC
- 80788050
- Author
- Byron, John, 1723-1786.
- Title
- John "Foul-weather Jack" Byron manuscript material : 2 items, 1778-1781
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- John Byron, British naval officer. His frequent bad luck in weather conditions earned him the nickname "Foul-weather Jack." In 1768, he published a narrative of the struggle for survival after a shipwreck, which later supplied suggestions for the shipwreck scene in Don Juan by Lord Byron, John Byron's grandson.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Shuldham, Molyneux, 1717?-1798, addressee.Sykes, James, navy agent, addressee.
- Found In:
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925
- Research Call Number
- Pforz MS