It is almost two hundred years since the death of Lord Byron. He succumbed to a fever on April 19, 1824, in the town of Missolonghi, on the west coast of Greece, at the age of thirty-six.

Amid hundreds of thousands of documents donated to the National Historical Park in Morristown was a nearly 200-year-old letter written by Lord Byron, the celebrated English Romantic poet.

Byron was in the van of those poets who came to be known as “Romantics,” and his life had something of the turbulence of a fairy tale. The future Lord Byron was born in 1788 to a family that could ...