Byron, George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron, poet, 1788-1824) Fragment of a letter to Mary Shelley, cut out as an address panel "To Mrs Shelley... Albaro", 125 x 80mm., [?25th February 1823], "...a point of conciliation on a... observation yesterday...and as I am not ve[ry]?... hear more that of my... . It is also of grea[t]... [th]at he should be on?ton or ?tom... [a]nd would do awaySir T[imothy Shelley - Percy Shelley's father]...[repr]imand[?] S.[Percy Bysshe Shelley - referred to as 'S.' in Byron's other letters to Mary Shelley of 1822-23]in his family... reachedto furnish you... comfortably to England.[this refers to Mary Shelley's imminent return to England]... has done no great harm....", 12 part lines, with "Byron" written over it in another hand, address panel, possibly in a secretary's hand.

⁂ An important fragment of a letter written by Byron to Mary Shelley in the aftermath of Shelley's death due to drowning in the gulf of Spezia. The reference to Sir Timothy Shelley, Percy's father is almost certainly referring to pressure to bring back her son, Percy Florence, to be brought up in England. Sir Timothy was adamant that he would not financially support her son if he was not raised in England. "For her son's sake... [Mary Shelley] returned in August 1823 and spent most of the remainder of her life as an 'exile' in a conservative England that was inhospitable to her ambitions and her intellect. Sir Timothy granted a repayable allowance for Percy Florence that carried with it serious restrictions for Mary Shelley. After the publication of her edition of P. B. Shelley's Posthumous Poems (1824), Sir Timothy withdrew the allowance, demanded the volume be withdrawn, and prohibited Mary Shelley from publishing P. B. Shelley's works or bringing the Shelley name to public attention. Two years later, he temporarily withheld the allowance when a critic cited her name in a review of The Last Man, which had been published as 'by the author of Frankenstein'. Despite his power over her, Mary Shelley over the years found a number of ways to circumvent his restriction just as she persistently negotiated for additional funds as Percy Florence's educational needs increased." - Oxford DNB.