BIB_ID
137348
Accession number
MA 406.8
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
1820 Nov. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to "Messrs. Ollier / Booksellers / Vere Street / Bond 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.
Remarking on the numerous printing errors in Prometheus and promising to send a list of errata in a day or two; enclosing some poems to be added to Julian & Maddalo and reminding him that "I do not wish to have my name to be printed on the title page, though I have no objection to my being known as the author;" enclosing another poem to be printed at the end of the second edition of Cenci "or of any other writings, to which my name is affixed;" sending condolences to Ollier's brother on the death of his child; enclosing a poem by Medwin and asking Ollier to have it published; remarking that Julian & Maddalo and the enclosed poems "are all my saddest verses raked into one heap," but intending to "mingle more smiles with my tears in future."
See collection files for a description of the letter fromm an unidentified catalogue.
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.
Remarking on the numerous printing errors in Prometheus and promising to send a list of errata in a day or two; enclosing some poems to be added to Julian & Maddalo and reminding him that "I do not wish to have my name to be printed on the title page, though I have no objection to my being known as the author;" enclosing another poem to be printed at the end of the second edition of Cenci "or of any other writings, to which my name is affixed;" sending condolences to Ollier's brother on the death of his child; enclosing a poem by Medwin and asking Ollier to have it published; remarking that Julian & Maddalo and the enclosed poems "are all my saddest verses raked into one heap," but intending to "mingle more smiles with my tears in future."
See collection files for a description of the letter fromm an unidentified catalogue.
Provenance
Sale (Puttick's, 22 July 1878, lot 128, p. 11) to Naylor; offered by him (Cat. 50, December 1878, lot 11535, p. 15); sale (Sotheby's, 12 March 1903, lot 654, p. 54) to Pearson; sale (Sotheby's, 1 June 1905, lot 513, p. 50) to Sabin; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
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