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BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, NOEL BYRON, 6th Lord. Autograph letter signed ("Byron") to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Massingberd, Little Hampton, 26 August 1806. 1 page, small 4to, 228 x 183 mm. (9 x 7 1/4 in.), integral address leaf with panel in Byron's hand, stamped postmarks and remains of red wax seal with armorial bearings, paper watermarked "C Willmott 1804," a strip of blank address leaf missing, clean tear at one fold intersection of letter.
A rare early letter -- hasty and breathless in style -- from the youthful poet, who had matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge the previous October and whose first book, Fugitive Poems, was to appear in three months time. From the home of his friend, E.N. Long (whom he was visiting), Byron writes to Mrs. Massingberd, a widow in whose house at 16 Piccadilly he often lodged when in London. Later, when Byron's debts mounted, she acted as a guarantor of various loans to him; by the time he left England in 1809 these debts amounted to 8 or 9 thousand pounds. "My dear Madam, I lose no Time in informing you, that my Lancashire Course is gained, and is extremely valuable, I shall be in Town in few days, I have hardly time to sign myself, your obliged & Sincere...Byron." In a scrawled postscript, Byron adds: "If my Parcels arrive, retain them till my arrival.--Adieu." Not in Byron, Letters, ed. J. Marchand, and apparently unpublished.
A rare early letter -- hasty and breathless in style -- from the youthful poet, who had matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge the previous October and whose first book, Fugitive Poems, was to appear in three months time. From the home of his friend, E.N. Long (whom he was visiting), Byron writes to Mrs. Massingberd, a widow in whose house at 16 Piccadilly he often lodged when in London. Later, when Byron's debts mounted, she acted as a guarantor of various loans to him; by the time he left England in 1809 these debts amounted to 8 or 9 thousand pounds. "My dear Madam, I lose no Time in informing you, that my Lancashire Course is gained, and is extremely valuable, I shall be in Town in few days, I have hardly time to sign myself, your obliged & Sincere...Byron." In a scrawled postscript, Byron adds: "If my Parcels arrive, retain them till my arrival.--Adieu." Not in Byron, Letters, ed. J. Marchand, and apparently unpublished.