BIB_ID
137095
Accession number
MA 406.2
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
1815 Sept. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to "Messrs Lackington Allen & Co. / Finsbury Square / London."
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.
Written from Bishopgate.
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.
Written from Bishopgate.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Enclosing (not present) a list of books that he wishes to be provided with; remarking that "where I have omitted to specify in the list the edition which I prefer, I beg to leave the choice to your discretion" and noting that he is indifferent to whether the books are bound.
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