BIB_ID
137465
Accession number
MA 406.10
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
1821 Oct. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and evidence of a seal and addressed to "Leigh Hunt Esqr / Examiner Office / Catharine Street / Strand / London / Angleterre."
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 an unidentified catalogue.
Signed "Your most affectionate S."
Written from "Pisa (or Rather Leghorn)."
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 an unidentified catalogue.
Signed "Your most affectionate S."
Written from "Pisa (or Rather Leghorn)."
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 19 June 1897, lot 340, p. 30) to Barker; sale (Sotheby's, 29 July 1898, lot 386, p. 37, with three other letters) to Franklin; offered by Pearson (with the three others, Cat. 81, [1899?], lot 511, p. 70); sale (Sotheby's, 3 December 1900, lot 1250, p. 133) to Sabin; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Concerning plans for his moving to Italy, suggesting that he come directly to Leghorn from London by sea and advising him on what furniture to bring; saying that Lord Byron is expected soon; regretting that Hogg cannot come to Italy as well; asking him to bring a copy of the Indicator and a copy of Clarke's Queen Mab; fearing that the letter will not reach Hunt before his departure.
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