Title: [Collection comprising an autograph letter signed by the forger 'Major Byron', together with three examples of his Byron forgeries]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">This collection, from the Schimmel sale (2012), lot 17, contains, apart from newspaper clippings:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">[ALS to a suspicious collector], New York, 1849-10-19, 8vo. pp. 3. A letter of the forger himself to a suspicious collector indignantly insisting upon the genuineness of his Byron forgeries, and assailing the ‘unscrupulous malignity’ of John Murray, John Cam Hobhouse, and the Athenaeum, ‘who [have] slandered me’.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">[Forged Lord Byron ALS to John Murray], “Ravenna”, 1821-10-03, 4to. p. 1.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">[Forged Lord Byron ALS to Sir Godfrey Webster], “Genua”, 1822-11-28, 4to. pp. 3.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">[Forged Lord Byron ALS to Richard Hoppner], “Venice”, 1818-11-25, 4to. pp. 3.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/143187" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>