A famous eulogy to Lord Melbourne in manuscript, with assorted documents related to her Ladyship.
N.p.]: December 1848. 2½ pp., folded sheet (230 x 190 mm). Docketed in ink on the verso by Lady Byron, “Lines on Lord Melbourne/ Dec 1848,” and in pencil, “The Lady Noel Byron/ her writing.” a heartfelt eulogy to her husband’s mistress’s husband, the former prime minister. In 1812 Lord Byron began an illustrious affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the wife of Lord Melbourne and the cousin of Byron’s future wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke. Lady Byron, who separated from her promiscuous husband in 1816 after just two years of marriage, seems to have maintained a friendship with Lord Melbourne, then Prime Minister and trusted adviser to Queen Victoria, until his death in 1848: “…leave his ashes in neglected rest,/ Save when some heart that answer’d to his own,/ Perchance too humble, or perchance too high,/ to yield in life the ministries of love…” [With]: an autograph letter addressed to E. Harrison, from Southampton, 26 September 1835, with the Lady’s seal; an address panel with seal; an autograph poem, “The Solitary Star,” addressed to Mrs. Laura Jameson, 27 September 1843; an autograph note, “Sent per L.B.S.C.R…”; and an engraved portrait of Lady Byron by Freeman, “Presented with the Court Journal of 5th Jan.y 1833.” Condition : minor fading, few small holes in seals.
A famous eulogy to Lord Melbourne in manuscript, with assorted documents related to her Ladyship.
N.p.]: December 1848. 2½ pp., folded sheet (230 x 190 mm). Docketed in ink on the verso by Lady Byron, “Lines on Lord Melbourne/ Dec 1848,” and in pencil, “The Lady Noel Byron/ her writing.” a heartfelt eulogy to her husband’s mistress’s husband, the former prime minister. In 1812 Lord Byron began an illustrious affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the wife of Lord Melbourne and the cousin of Byron’s future wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke. Lady Byron, who separated from her promiscuous husband in 1816 after just two years of marriage, seems to have maintained a friendship with Lord Melbourne, then Prime Minister and trusted adviser to Queen Victoria, until his death in 1848: “…leave his ashes in neglected rest,/ Save when some heart that answer’d to his own,/ Perchance too humble, or perchance too high,/ to yield in life the ministries of love…” [With]: an autograph letter addressed to E. Harrison, from Southampton, 26 September 1835, with the Lady’s seal; an address panel with seal; an autograph poem, “The Solitary Star,” addressed to Mrs. Laura Jameson, 27 September 1843; an autograph note, “Sent per L.B.S.C.R…”; and an engraved portrait of Lady Byron by Freeman, “Presented with the Court Journal of 5th Jan.y 1833.” Condition : minor fading, few small holes in seals.
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