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The Byron Society Collection, founded by Marsha M. Manns and Leslie A. Marchand, was conceived of as a living collection to which Byron Society members and friends could contribute their own collections. 

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  • 1,900 volumes, including many early editions
  • Letters from Catherine Gordon Byron, Thomas Moore, Lady Byron, and others
  • 600 books and 60 material objects belonging to Michael Rees, former Secretary of the International Council of Byron Societies
  • Visual representations and portraits, such as Rembrandt Peale’s 1825 lithograph of Byron, as well as statuary, mezzotints and engravings, Staffordshire figures, and decorative and other material objects that demonstrate the impact of Byron’s life and works on his readers, both past and present
  • Papers, correspondence, books, and photographs once owned by the late Leslie A. Marchand, author of Byron:  A Biography and editor of Byron’s Letters and Journals.
  • Byron-related papers of Jerome McGann, an important critic of Romanticim Romanticism and Byron studies, and the editor of Byron:  The Complete Poetical Works, as well as a large set of facsimiles of Byron MSS and associated Byroniana, scholarly, and critical materials.
  • The archives of the Byron Society of America

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