BIB_ID
137094
Accession number
MA 406.4
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
1816 Feb. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to "Messrs. Carpenter & Son / 13 Old Bond Street / London."
Docketed.
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.
See collection files for a description of the letter from the Sotheby's catalogue (Dec. 1, 1906).
Written from Bishopgate near Egham.
Docketed.
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.
See collection files for a description of the letter from the Sotheby's catalogue (Dec. 1, 1906).
Written from Bishopgate near Egham.
Provenance
Collection of George Smith; sold by his daughters at Sotheby's (1 December 1906, p. 11, n. 115); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Concerning the publication of Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude; noting that Messrs. Baldwin and Co. will print the volume within the next few days and will furnish Carpenter with copies for sale.
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