Autograph letter signed to John Cowell, 22 October 1814
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Title
Autograph letter signed to John Cowell, 22 October 1814
Collection
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron manuscript material
Series II: Correspondence
To John Welsford Cowell, his young protégé, later a banker
Names
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 (Author)
Cowell, John Welsford (Addressee)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1814-10-22
Library Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz MS
Shelf locator: Pforz MS (B 0009)
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Notes
Content: [No place]; referring to a bet with some of his friends that he would not marry; begins, "Many sincere thanks for your kind letter. – – The bet or rather forfeit was one hundred to Hawke . . . ."
Citation/Reference: Shelley and his Circle, SC 267 : volume III, page 384; Marchand volume 4, page 222.
Funding: Digitized through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Physical Description
Extent: 2 pages : double sheet
Languages
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16737284
Archives ID: 19609
Archives EAD ID: 3127949
Archives Components ID: 1740908
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 68ecd7c0-ecdf-0136-26bd-0fd62d63d07d
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Autograph letter signed to John Cowell, 22 October 1814" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1814. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/68ecd7c0-ecdf-0136-26bd-0fd62d63d07d
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1814). Autograph letter signed to John Cowell, 22 October 1814 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/68ecd7c0-ecdf-0136-26bd-0fd62d63d07d
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Autograph letter signed to John Cowell, 22 October 1814" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 6, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/68ecd7c0-ecdf-0136-26bd-0fd62d63d07d
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