Byron (Lord George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron, poet, 1788-1824) Autograph address panel signed to Dr Samuel Butler, Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, remains of red wax seal, on reverse a draft letter from Dr Butler in the hand of his daughter Harriet, tear along one side where opened, folds, slightly browned, 250 x 165mm., February 1814; and another, an engraved portrait of Byron, v.s. (2).
⁂ First mentioned relating to a correspondence between Byron and Dr Butler, referring to Butler's translation of Lucien Bonaparte's, Charlemagne. Second mentioned to Byron's university friend Scrope Berdmore Davies; Byron later dedicated his poem "Parisina" to Davies, and described him once as "One of the cleverest men I ever knew in conversation".
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