BIB_ID
137254
Accession number
MA 406.7
Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Display Date
1820 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Address panel has been partially cut away, but with postmarks and evidence of a seal and apparently addressed to "[Thomas M]edwin Esqr / Genève."
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.
The lower half of the second sheet, including the closure and signature (and with the address panel on the verso), has been cut away.
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.
The lower half of the second sheet, including the closure and signature (and with the address panel on the verso), has been cut away.
Provenance
Edward John Trelawny; by descent to his daughter Mrs. C. F. Call; her sale (Sotheby's, 8 November 1907, lot 29, p. 6) to Sabin; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Concerning the winter weather in Florence and Switzerland; remarking on the political situation in England and noting "These are not times in which one has much spirit for writing Poetry; although there is a keen air in them that sharpens the wits of men and makes them imagine vividly even in the midst of despondence;" describing Italy as a pleasant place and inviting Medwin to visit him, noting that it is "The Paradise of exiles -- the retreat of Pariahs -- but I am thinking of myself."
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