BIB_ID
137764
Accession number
MA 406.3
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
1818 Dec.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Here titled "Naples -- December 1818. / Written during a fit of low spirits." The second line has been heavily canceled, presumably by Shelley.
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.
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.
Provenance
Given by Lady Shelley to Charles E. Hallé in 1891; sale (London, Sotheby's, 25 July 1907, lot 181); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
A fair copy of the poem. Followed by a sonnet on p. 4 (first line: "Lift not the painted veil which those who live"). Pages are numbered 72-75.
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