Letter from Lord Byron to John Hanson mb-code 42-21178958 The Ratcliffe Fire of July

The Ratcliffe Fire of July 1794 was the worst fire disaster to affect London between the Great Fire of London and the Blitz

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Letter from Lord Byron to John Hanson mb-code 42-21178958 The Ratcliffe Fire of JulyLetter 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).