Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
02-03 August 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/759
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    160/162 page 72
    The Property of Miss LE. G. Colles, A DESCENDANT OF ROBERT CHARLES DALLAS, WHO BROUGHT OUT FOR LorpD Byron, Hnglish Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 631 Byron (George Gordon, Lord) A SUPERB AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS MOTHER, 3 pp. 4to, 8, St. Jas’ St., Mch. 6th, 1809 : Dear Mother My last letter was written under great depression of spirits from poor Falkland’s death [Capt. Lord Falkland, R.N. mortally wounded in a duel at Golder’s Green]... What you say is all very true, come what may! Newstead and I stand or fall together... I have fixed my heart upon it, and no pres- sure, present or future, shall induce me to barter the last vestige of our inheritance. I can endure privations, but could I obtain in ex- change for Newstead Abbey the first fortune in the country, I would reject the proposition ... I feel like a man of honour, and I will not sell Newstead. I shall get my seat [House of Lords] on the return of the affidavits from Carhais in Cornwall, and will do something in the House soon : I must dash, or it is all over. My satire [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] must be kept secret for a month, after that you may say what you please on the subject. Lord Carlisle has used me in- famously, and refused to state any particulars of my family to the Chancellor. I have lashed him in my rhymes, and perhaps his Lord- ship may regret not being more conciliatory. They tell me it will have a sale: I hope so, for the bookseller has behaved well, as far as publishing well goes. Believe me yours truly Byron. P.S.—You shall have a mortgage on one of the farms. IN EXCELLENT PRESERVATION. END OF SALE. Printed by J. Davy & Sons, Ltd., 8-9, Frith Street, W.1, England.
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