Letter from Lord Byron to John Hanson mb-code 42-21178958 'Youth Crowned with Roses'

'Youth Crowned with Roses'

but was killed whilst trying to set a speed record on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn in 1938

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previously WFB'

To whom this Plate is most humbly Inscribed by his most obedient Servant

Letter from Lord Byron to John Hanson mb-code 42-21178958 'Youth Crowned with Roses'Letter from Lord Byron to John Hanson, 11th November 1810. Letter written from Athens by George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) to John Hanson, his solicitor, with reference to his pecuniary difficulties and refusing to entertain the proposal to sell Newstead Abbey (ultimately sold in 1817). From the second series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I V. (London, 1899).