BIB_ID
137347
Accession number
MA 406.9
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1821 Feb. 18].
Credit line
Purchased, 1920.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Miss Clairmont / presso al Sige Proffe Bojti / dirmpetto Palazzo Pitti / Firenze."
Location and date of writing inferred from postmarks and from Jones.
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 H. Buxton Forman sale catalogue (Mar. 15, 1920).
The final page is written on a leaf on which Shelley had begun a letter to John Keats. It reads only: "My dear Keats, I learn this moment that you are at Naples, and that..." The two lines have been cancelled by Shelley, and the only complete extant letter from Shelley to Keats (27 July 1820) is now at Harvard.
Location and date of writing inferred from postmarks and from Jones.
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 H. Buxton Forman sale catalogue (Mar. 15, 1920).
The final page is written on a leaf on which Shelley had begun a letter to John Keats. It reads only: "My dear Keats, I learn this moment that you are at Naples, and that..." The two lines have been cancelled by Shelley, and the only complete extant letter from Shelley to Keats (27 July 1820) is now at Harvard.
Provenance
Sold by Paola Clairmont to H. Buxton Forman (30 July 1879); his sale (New York, 15 March 1920, v. 1, lot 710, p. 167) to the Rosenbach Company; purchased in 1920.1
Summary
Discussing her intention to travel to Germany; thanking her for news from Naples and discussing the political situation there; asking her to present Emilia's petition to the Grand Duchess; saying he has not seen Del Rosso; alluding to his trip to Leghorn and promising to send her a German dictionary from there. With a postscript reporting that Keats is very ill at Naples and that he has written inviting him to Pisa "without however inviting him to our own house," noting that they are not rich enough for that sort of thing; remarking that he is "provoked at Sgricci's assumption, & shall certainly never allow him to make use you allude to, of me."
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