Byron, George Gordon Lord. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SERIES OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND FRANCIS HODGSON Writing of poetry ("...Who is the hero of Paradise Lost? Why Satan..."), love ("...I almost rejoice when one I love dies young, for I could never bear to see them old or altered..."), religion ("...we are miserable enough in this life, without the absurdity of speculating on another..."), and revolution ("...the Neapolitan treachery & desertion have spoilt all our hopes here..."), the most important byron material to have been offered at auction since the sale of the manuscript of Beppo in 1976, comprising 15 complete autograph letters signed ("Byron", "Bn", "MPAIRWN" [GREEK]), 5 incomplete letters and lengthy fragments, one brief note, one separate post-script, one short fragment, and one address wrapper with free frank, four letters with address panels and one integral address leaf, in total 71 pages in Byron's autograph with many unpublished passages, chiefly 4to (one letter and one post-script 8vo), 27 November 1808 to 12 May 1821, loosely inserted in a brown morocco album with a lock, some nicks and tears (only two tears with significant loss of text), two seal-tears, a few ink stains and some light spotting, some marginal comments and underlinings in a later hand, lock on album broken [together with:] three autograph letters signed by Annabella Milbanke, later Lady Byron, principally concerning a bond for £500 signed by Byron for Hodgson and referred to in his letter of 3 January 1813, 5 pages, 4to and 8vo, 25 November 1814 to 24 January 1825; autograph letter signed by William Fletcher Byron's valet, to Hodgson, 3 pages, 8vo, 8 September 1838; autograph letter signed by John Murray (IV), 2 pages, 14 July 1898; a transcript of an additional letter by Byron to Hodgson; Catalogue of some highly important letters in the autograph of Lord Byron to which are added interesting letters the collection of the Rev. Canon Hodgson, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 2 March 1885, tears to Lady Byron letters
Byron, George Gordon Lord. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SERIES OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND FRANCIS HODGSON Writing of poetry ("...Who is the hero of Paradise Lost? Why Satan..."), love ("...I almost rejoice when one I love dies young, for I could never bear to see them old or altered..."), religion ("...we are miserable enough in this life, without the absurdity of speculating on another..."), and revolution ("...the Neapolitan treachery & desertion have spoilt all our hopes here..."), the most important byron material to have been offered at auction since the sale of the manuscript of Beppo in 1976, comprising 15 complete autograph letters signed ("Byron", "Bn", "MPAIRWN" [GREEK]), 5 incomplete letters and lengthy fragments, one brief note, one separate post-script, one short fragment, and one address wrapper with free frank, four letters with address panels and one integral address leaf, in total 71 pages in Byron's autograph with many unpublished passages, chiefly 4to (one letter and one post-script 8vo), 27 November 1808 to 12 May 1821, loosely inserted in a brown morocco album with a lock, some nicks and tears (only two tears with significant loss of text), two seal-tears, a few ink stains and some light spotting, some marginal comments and underlinings in a later hand, lock on album broken [together with:] three autograph letters signed by Annabella Milbanke, later Lady Byron, principally concerning a bond for £500 signed by Byron for Hodgson and referred to in his letter of 3 January 1813, 5 pages, 4to and 8vo, 25 November 1814 to 24 January 1825; autograph letter signed by William Fletcher Byron's valet, to Hodgson, 3 pages, 8vo, 8 September 1838; autograph letter signed by John Murray (IV), 2 pages, 14 July 1898; a transcript of an additional letter by Byron to Hodgson; Catalogue of some highly important letters in the autograph of Lord Byron to which are added interesting letters the collection of the Rev. Canon Hodgson, Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 2 March 1885, tears to Lady Byron letters
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