£700
Byron. Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron (née Milbanke; 1792-1860), Hymn, dated 1859, [1ff] of autograph manuscript, comprising 12 stanzas of poetry, beginning: Go when the morning ***, ending: Of Mercy, Truth, and Love!, the verse formerly enclosed in a letter and now mounted and framed with the letter's finale signed and dated: Your friend/AI: Noel Byron/Aug 27. 1859, the foolscap sheet folded, browned and soiled in places, the surface of the sheet with some scuffed losses and chips, tipped-in/pasted on a later 19th c mount, the verso with a TLS of verification from T.A.J. Burnett, Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, on their writing-paper, dated June 5th 1967, the sheet 37 x 24cm, 45.1 x 35.2cm overall
Provenance: Mr. R. Packham of Balham, S.W.12; TLS letter addressed to him as the then owner from Burnett of The British Museum, who would later catalogue the Ashley Library of 17th c and later English poets' printed books and manuscripts, formed by Thomas James Wise, bibliophile and infamous forger.
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