Promising Hobhouse twenty pounds for a Byron monument
Autograph letter signed ("JW de Goethe").
4to. 1 p.
€ 18,500.00
To the British politician John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786-1869), Byron's friend and travel companion, promising him the sum of 20 Pounds Sterling toward a planned monument for Lord Byron, deceased in 1824: "Mein Herr / Bey der Subscription für Lord Byrons Denckmal bitte mich mit Zwanzig Pfund zu unterzeichnen, wozu ich mich schon vormals verpflichtet [...]".
John Cam Hobhouse was Bryon's executor. The statue created by Bertel Thorvaldsen was ultimately placed in Cambridge's Trinity College after having been rejected by several institutions on the grounds of Byron's immorality.
On black-bordered mourning stationery; a few pencil annotations in another hand; marked edge damage.
