BIB_ID
137361
Accession number
MA 1135
Creator
Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879.
Display Date
1878 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Purchased, 1937.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed "To / Miss Haslam / 19 Slaidburn St. Chelsea / London S.W."
Recipient is the daughter of John Haslam, physician. Severn had given the letter to Wilkinson in the 1840s, and his attempt to locate the letter is in response to an edition of the poem published by Buxton Forman which does not identify Severn as "the imaginary friend." By 1878, however, the letter was in the collection of Henry Huth.
The letter here referenced (Shelley to Severn, Pisa, 29 November 1821) is MA 790.2.
Written from Scala Dante.
Recipient is the daughter of John Haslam, physician. Severn had given the letter to Wilkinson in the 1840s, and his attempt to locate the letter is in response to an edition of the poem published by Buxton Forman which does not identify Severn as "the imaginary friend." By 1878, however, the letter was in the collection of Henry Huth.
The letter here referenced (Shelley to Severn, Pisa, 29 November 1821) is MA 790.2.
Written from Scala Dante.
Provenance
Purchased from J.E. Brooks in 1937.
Summary
Asking her to convince Mrs. Wilkinson to allow him to borrow a letter from Shelley to Severn, which had accompanied a presentation copy of Adonais, in order to prove that Severn was the friend present at Keats's death. Promising to return the letter should Mrs. Wilkinson send it to him.
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