BIB_ID
137252
Accession number
MA 406.21
Creator
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Display Date
[1832 Apr. 21].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.9
Notes
Added to this collection from the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection in 1922.
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Manners Sutton / Palace Yd / Westminster."
Date and location of writing inferred from postmarks.
Docketed.
Letter is incomplete; initial page(s) are not present.
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.
Probably written from 33 Somerset Street.--cf. Bennett
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Manners Sutton / Palace Yd / Westminster."
Date and location of writing inferred from postmarks.
Docketed.
Letter is incomplete; initial page(s) are not present.
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.
Probably written from 33 Somerset Street.--cf. Bennett
Provenance
The Williman and Kaye-Dowland collection; purchased with this collection by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1911.
Summary
Assuring her that her party will be a success, remarking that "Numbers except at a Ball, are by no means necessary;" looking forward to seeing her the following week.
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