The "Byron Window", removed in 1988 from the first floor breakfast room of the Temple Hotel, Matlock Bath This pane of glass (cracked and repaired before its donation) bears several etched inscriptions. At the time of donation, Derbyshire Record Office staff have been unable to find firm documentary evidence of authorship. The sale catalogue from a 1975 auction of the property (LS/SALE_CATS/270) asserts that the pane of glass had been inscribed by George Gordon the 6th Lord Byron with a poem and that Princess Victoria had later etched her name on the same pane. An article in Derbyshire Life and Countryside (Vol 53, no 9, Sep 1988) makes the same claim and quotes the owner of the Temple Hotel as saying that during refurbishment works the pane had been removed from the window and framed for display. William Adam's "The Gem of the Peak" (1838/1851 editions) mentions that the name of Walter Scott is to be found etched in a window in Room 5 of the Temple Hotel, and discusses incidents in the life of Byron, including a visit to Matlock Bath. He does not, however, mention a window at the Temple on which Byron wrote. However, the date nearest to the poem reads 8 Oct 1786, some four years prior to the birth of George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron. Furthermore, it is uncertain that the name below the poem reads Byron. For information please see the URL below to a post about the "Byron Window" on the Record Office Blog, 14 Oct 2017 19th cent