Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord

autograph manuscript poem ("In me who felt, as once he felt ... Its former warmth around another"), 20 lines in five stanzas, a fair copy with two corrections, 2 pages, 4to, 1807, annotated in the hand of Elizabeth Pigot ("Copied for Mr Moore Jany 29th 1828"), in a collector's slipcase and red morocco backed box with armorial gilt stamp

Maggs, Catalogue 449 (1924); American Art Association, 13 November 1935; Halstead B. Vander Poel; sale of his library, Christie's, London, 3 March 2004, lot 74

Index of English Literary Manuscripts: Volume IV, 1800-1900, ByL 467

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"...She is a beautiful Girl, & I love her, nor do I despair, unless some damned accident intervenes..." (Byron to John Pigot on Anne Houson, 13 January 1807)

The only known manuscript of one of Byron's early poems written for Anne Houson, the daughter of the Rev. Henry Houson of Southwell. Byron wrote at least seven love poems for her in the early months of 1807, most of which - including this - remained unpublished in Byron's lifetime. As the note at the bottom of the current manuscript shows, in 1828 it was in the hands of Byron's friend Elizabeth Pigot, who showed it to Thomas Moore. It was duly included in the 1832 edition of Byron's works edited by Moore.