The collection of Byron's letters sold for record sum

[SergeiSK]

Collection of unpublished letters of the English poet George Gordon Byron was sold at Sotheby's auction for a record $ 277.25 a thousand pounds (458.8 thousand U.S. dollars). On Thursday reported Agence France-Presse.
In this preliminary assessment of the lot was from 150 to 180 thousand pounds. As the representative of Sotheby's, the auction house "in a perfect rapture" of a successful transaction. In addition, the price indication of how Lord Byron is important for literature and loved by the public.
The collection consists of 71 handwritten pages, mostly from the letters of the poet. In them he wrote about love, poetry, religion, travel and the revolution. According to the expert Sotheby's, in the unpublished letters of Byron, which is considered to be the rake, presents quite a different angle.
Letters Byron previously stored in the library of Count Rosebery Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1894 to 1895 years. The proceeds for the lot amount was the largest that has ever paid for the manuscript of the British romantic poets at auction, says the agency.
(Lenta.ru)