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06/01/2006
Librarian discovers unknown Byron manuscript
A librarian has discovered the only known manuscript of a poem by Lord Byron
at University College London (UCL).
Librarian Susan Stead was doing some routine cataloguing when she came
across the original poem in a copy of an 1810 edition of The Pleasures of
Memory by Samuel Rogers.
The book came to UCL as part of a collection of the Rogers' family papers,
donated to the college in 1956.
The poem's manuscript, which talks about friendship and memory, was dated 12
April, 1812.
It appeared in print four years later in a volume of collected poems.
Coincidentally, Stead also discovered a rare Shelley manuscript in the
library last year.
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