RARE LETTER FROM LADY NOEL BYRON BYRON (Anne Isabella Noel, née Millbanke, 1792-1860, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, wife of Lord Byron)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Crabb Robinson saying that “Mr Follen, who has now vanished from our sight I fear for ever, had not any opportunity of giving you a message from me - Instead of repeating it I will ask you if you can bestow upon me any hour next Sunday, & come so far as this place to see yours very truly...”, with a postscript that she leaves “London this morning, but shall hope I find your answer on my return on Saturday & will observe the time named by you...”, 2 sides 8vo., ‘Great Western Hotel’, Paddington Station, 6th July no year

A highly educated and strictly religious woman, she seemed an unlikely match for the “amoral” and agnostic poet, and their marriage soon ended in acrimony. Lady Byron's reminiscences, published after her death by Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealed her fears about alleged incest between Lord Byron and his half-sister. The scandal about Lady Byron's suspicions accelerated Byron's intentions to leave England and return to the Mediterranean where he had lived in 1810. Their daughter Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace, worked as a mathematician with Charles Babbage, the pioneer of computer science.
Presumably this is addressed to Henry Crabb ROBINSON (1775-1867) the journalist and diarist who was a close friend of most of the Romantic Poets.

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Stock No:  42710      £775

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