BIB_ID
137464
Accession number
MA 790.1
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
1821 June 8.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 21.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to "Miss Clairmont / presso al Profe Bojti / dirimpetto Palazzo Pitti / Firenze."
Part of a collection of three letters concerning Shelley's Adonais; see related collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of three letters concerning Shelley's Adonais; see related collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Sold by Paola Clairmont to H. Buxton Forman; his sale (New York, 15 March 1920, vol. 1, lot 711, p. 167) to E. D. North for J.P. Morgan, Jr.
Summary
Concerning his ill health, remarking that he has a "great desire & interest to live" but that although he takes care of himself "it appears to make no difference." Noting that reading does not occupy him enough and that "the only relief I find springs from the composition of poetry, which necessitates contemplations that lift me above the stormy mist of sensations which are my habitual place of abode." Mentioning that he has been composing a poem on Keats (his Adonais), which is "better than any thing that I have yet written, & worthy both of him & of me." Remarking on her travel plans; noting that no one in England writes them any more; mentioning the departure of Mavrocordatos.
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