Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord

agreeing to forward Campbell's recommendation of an actress to the sub-committee for directing affairs at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane ("..your recommendation is decisive with me though I have never seen her - but the jarring opinions & interests of a theatre are such - that I could not pretend to anticipate a favourable result to any rational proposition..."), 2 pages, 8vo, 13 Terrace, Piccadilly, 28 November 1815, with autograph address wrapper with remains of red wax seal impression, professionally conserved, the wrapper strengthened

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An unpublished letter to the poet Thomas Campbell, written to Byron as a member of a committee focusing on the role of the newly built Theatre Royal on Drury Lane as a centre for national life. Byron was responding to a letter of 26 November, in which Campbell promoted the talents of Mrs Frances Allsop, the daughter of Dorothy Jordan (Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell, ed. Beattie (1855), vol. 2, pp.62-63)