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    NJ museum's Lord Byron letter turns out to be fake

    MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — It turns out a nearly 200-year-old letter donated to a New Jersey museum wasn't written by English Romantic poet Lord Byron.

    The National Historical Park in Morristown received the letter more than 50 years ago from a banker and collector.

    The letter's authenticity came into doubt when Drew University began planning a large Byron exhibit. The park's chief of cultural resources Jude Pfister offered the letter.

    The Star-Ledger of Newark (http://bit.ly/qNW7q5) reports the university shared the letter with an expert at the New York Public Library. She found problems with the salutation, signature and content.

    The letter appears to have been written 50 years after Byron's death in 1824. The author remains a mystery.

    The museum is considering an exhibit on forged documents.

     

    74 comments

    • Voice  •  9 mths ago
      "The museum is considering an exhibit on forged documents."

      When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!!
      • wolf 9 mths ago
        sounds like some smart people at that musem, turn an liabilty into to an asset
      • Mark 9 mths ago
        What do you make when life hands you AIDS? Lemon-AIDS?
      • njbruce 9 mths ago
        Lemonade..ha ha..Exactly what came to my mindl LOL
    • CoolWisdomPrevails  •  9 mths ago
      With their luck, an exhibit on forged documents will turn out to contain one that's
      authentic.
      • The Phantom Philosopher 9 mths ago
        "The museum is considering an exhibit on forged documents."

        That was the best part of the whole article!
    • GOD BLESS AMERICA 2012  •  9 mths ago
      I'm sure there are many more fakes in big museums and art galleries around the world.
      • Hae Soo 9 mths ago
        I hope that when forgeries are donated to museums. They follow up with the IRS and disallow the charitable deduction.
    • Half Liger Half Wholphin  •  9 mths ago
      "The museum is considering an exhibit on forged documents."

      When life gives you lemons, make a forged documents exhibit...
      • Me 9 mths ago
        I was going to say the exact same thing!!!
    • AgentUtah  •  9 mths ago
      Maybe Byron was like a nineteenth-century Tupac who just kept releasing new letters after he died.
    • nicholas  •  9 mths ago
      it surprises me how many people there are that have no concept of there, their and they're. it's rudimentary english.
    • thebo  •  9 mths ago
      I think when the letter had the phrase: "yo baby" it kinda tipped it off
    • ACACIA72  •  9 mths ago
      AY! It toined out to be from my uncle, Byron Lord!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Soooo, if the letter was actually written around 1874, it's a long way from being "nearly 200- years-old." Or my math is poor.
    • timer  •  9 mths ago
      So lets spend a few million dollars to find out who wrote the fake letter. I just gotta know.
    • HankALMIGHTY  •  9 mths ago
      NEWS FLASH ! A fiberglass t-rex skeleton turns out to be real!
    • Max Fubar  •  9 mths ago
      Someone got suckered decades back.
    • BrandiH  •  9 mths ago
      Ooh, exhibit on forged documents! You know, that might actually be interesting. Include all the stories of the people being duped by them the first time. It's amazing, really, what people will forge. And how many people get taken for a ride by them.
    • Jim  •  9 mths ago
      Anyone who compares this to the president's supposed "fake" birth certificate is not only an idiot, but illiterate as well. There is no difference between Obama's birth certificate and any other in Hawaii. I guess the nutjob conspiracy theorists will always be alive and well. Why not go after the "theory" that the earth is flat or the "theory" that fox news is real news! Stop taking your brains out and playing with them, it costs you too much.
    • NickDC33  •  9 mths ago
      Lord Byron considered New Jersey fake as well
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      In psychology I learned that people who are not grammar teachers that correct others speech alot of times have a inferiority complex.
    • anEngineer  •  9 mths ago
      "The museum is considering an exhibit on forged documents." This museum really knows how to make lemonade out of a lemon.
    • TheCBSstable2009  •  9 mths ago
      As fake as my ex-wife's 38DD's???
    • Epolite  •  9 mths ago
      History is being being falsely created or recreated all the time, I don't believe anything that is found in Israel to be true, one guy was even found to be making artifacts in his house and claiming they were excavated or found in some old backstreet shop somewhere. Even Thanks giving is now claimed to be first celebrated by Indians not the pilgrims,

      .
    • Robert  •  9 mths ago
      NJ is like Staten Island.
      All fake, sitting on top of a garbage dump.
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