![BYRON, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron (1788-1824). Autograph manuscript poem, 'On Finding the Fan of Miss A[nne] H[ouson]', n.p., n.d. [1807], 20 lines of verse in stanzas numbered 1 - 5, 1½ pages, 4to, endorsed in a different hand on 2nd page, 'Copied for Mr Moore, January 29th 1828'; the opening verse:](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/CKS/2004_CKS_06973_0074_000(073651).jpg?w=1)
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron (1788-1824). Autograph manuscript poem, 'On Finding the Fan of Miss A[nne] H[ouson]', n.p., n.d. [1807], 20 lines of verse in stanzas numbered 1 - 5, 1½ pages, 4to, endorsed in a different hand on 2nd page, 'Copied for Mr Moore, January 29th 1828'; the opening verse:
'In one who felt as once he felt,
This, might perhaps have fanned the Flame,
But now his Heart, no more will melt,
Because that Heart is not the same'.
One of several poems written in 1807 for the flirtatious and apparently vain Anne Houson, daughter of a clergyman at Southwell. Byron wrote of her to John Pigot 'She is a beautiful Girl, & I love her, nor do I despair, unless some damned accident intervenes, secrecy on this subject my dear P. is requested' (Fiona MacCarthy. Byron. Life and Legend, 2002, p. 49).
This is apparently the original manuscript which Thomas Moore saw at Newstead, where he stayed on January 28 - 29, 1828 and published in his edition of The Works (1832). E.H. Coleridge included it (with Byron's numbering of the stanzas) in his edition of 1898 when the manuscript was still at Newstead. J.J. McGann recorded later that it was no longer at Newstead (The Complete Poetical Works, 1980-1993, v.I, no.103 and note).
'In one who felt as once he felt,
This, might perhaps have fanned the Flame,
But now his Heart, no more will melt,
Because that Heart is not the same'.
One of several poems written in 1807 for the flirtatious and apparently vain Anne Houson, daughter of a clergyman at Southwell. Byron wrote of her to John Pigot 'She is a beautiful Girl, & I love her, nor do I despair, unless some damned accident intervenes, secrecy on this subject my dear P. is requested' (Fiona MacCarthy. Byron. Life and Legend, 2002, p. 49).
This is apparently the original manuscript which Thomas Moore saw at Newstead, where he stayed on January 28 - 29, 1828 and published in his edition of The Works (1832). E.H. Coleridge included it (with Byron's numbering of the stanzas) in his edition of 1898 when the manuscript was still at Newstead. J.J. McGann recorded later that it was no longer at Newstead (The Complete Poetical Works, 1980-1993, v.I, no.103 and note).
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