B for Byron: letter of apology

Found in a country house in Gloucestershire, this letter written by Lord Byron (1788-1824) to Major John Cartwright (1740-1824) sold for £6000 at Chorley’s (28.2% buyer’s premium inc VAT) on March 20.

This previously unknown snippet of correspondence between the poet and the political reformer was …

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