BIB_ID
137048
Accession number
MA 406.17
Creator
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1826-1827?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley. Items in the collection have been cataloged individually in separate records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Possible dating based on Bennett, who notes that there is no record of Mary Shelley being in direct contact with Henry Colburn prior to [?30 October 1826].--cf. Bennett, p. 536, n. 1.
Written from Kentish Town.
Possible dating based on Bennett, who notes that there is no record of Mary Shelley being in direct contact with Henry Colburn prior to [?30 October 1826].--cf. Bennett, p. 536, n. 1.
Written from Kentish Town.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Reading "Mrs. Shelley would be obliged to Mr. Colburn if he could send the books by the bearer, as she is at an actual stop for want of them."
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