BIB_ID
137157
Accession number
MA 406.6
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
1816 May 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "Godwin Esq / 41 Skinner Street / 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.
See collection files for a description of the letter, probably from the Sotheby's catalogue (May 21, 1890).
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, probably from the Sotheby's catalogue (May 21, 1890).
Provenance
Sold by Paola Clairmont to H. Buxton Forman (30 July 1879); offered for £35 by Samuel J. Davey, Cat. 31 (1881), lot 3186, p. 63; sale (Sotheby's 21 May 1890, lot 102, p. 35-36) to Barker; sale (Sotheby's 10 April 1895, lot 52, p. 10) to Mason; sale (Sotheby's, 22 July 1901, lot 74, p. 8) to Sabin; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Concerning his financial affairs and his need to leave England for a time.
Concerning his financial affairs, remarking that "the limited condition of my fortune is regretted by me" and regretting that he is unable to send Godwin funds; reporting that the chancery courts decided that Shelley and his father may not touch his grandfather's estate and that Shelley is therefore dependent on his father's charity; discussing attempts to raise funds with a post obit security; determining to leave England "perhaps forever," but noting "I respect you, I think well of you, better perhaps than of any other person whom England contains, you were the philosopher who first awakened, & who still as a philosopher to a very great degree regulate my understanding." Giving his address in Geneva.
Concerning his financial affairs, remarking that "the limited condition of my fortune is regretted by me" and regretting that he is unable to send Godwin funds; reporting that the chancery courts decided that Shelley and his father may not touch his grandfather's estate and that Shelley is therefore dependent on his father's charity; discussing attempts to raise funds with a post obit security; determining to leave England "perhaps forever," but noting "I respect you, I think well of you, better perhaps than of any other person whom England contains, you were the philosopher who first awakened, & who still as a philosopher to a very great degree regulate my understanding." Giving his address in Geneva.
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