BIB_ID
137708
Accession number
MA 408
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
[1819].
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1916.
Description
1 item (20 p.) ; 15.3 cm
Notes
Formerly part of a "small vellum bound Italian note-book" that also contained Shelley's Philosophical View of Reform. The notebook was given in 1894 by Lady Shelley to Rev. Stopford Brooke, who removed the pages containing the essay "On Life" and sold them in 1916 to benefit the British Red Cross. The remainder of the notebook containing A Philosophical View of Reform is held by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library. See Shelley and his circle, 1773-1822, edited by Kenneth Neill Cameron (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1961), p. 897.
Here untitled, but headed by a a small sketch of a tree and a stamp of two shields.
Housed with the autograph manuscript of Julian and Maddalo (MA 974).
Here untitled, but headed by a a small sketch of a tree and a stamp of two shields.
Housed with the autograph manuscript of Julian and Maddalo (MA 974).
Provenance
By descent to Sir Percy Florence Shelley; presented by his wife Lady Jane Shelley to Stopford Brooke in 1894; sent by him to the Red Cross Sale (London, Christies, April, 1916); purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1916.
Summary
An early draft of the essay written on 16 1/4 p., with revisions and corrections throughout. Followed by 3 1/2 p. of notes and jottings, including four paragraphs headed "Malthus principle" on contraception.
Housed in
Blue silk case enclosed in blue cloth drop-spine box (23.1 cm)
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