Accession number
PML 146395.50
Creator
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Partial postmark dated of Nov. 28, with the year missing.
Addressed: Mr. Chas. Ollier / 8 New Burlington Street.
This letter evidently followed by a related letter from Shelley to Ollier, postmarked Dec. 5, 1825, stating that she had written "some days ago" requesting Wordsworth's Poems and Keats's first publication containing Sleep and Poetry, but had (evidently) failed to receive them. Cf. Sale, New York, Christies, 14 Dec. 2000, sale 9548, lot 133.
Nov. 28 fell on a Monday in 1825.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Addressed: Mr. Chas. Ollier / 8 New Burlington Street.
This letter evidently followed by a related letter from Shelley to Ollier, postmarked Dec. 5, 1825, stating that she had written "some days ago" requesting Wordsworth's Poems and Keats's first publication containing Sleep and Poetry, but had (evidently) failed to receive them. Cf. Sale, New York, Christies, 14 Dec. 2000, sale 9548, lot 133.
Nov. 28 fell on a Monday in 1825.
Part of a large collection of prints, drawings, and letters bound into an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (PML 146390-97); assembled by collector David Langton and formerly in the possession of John Dillon and Gordon Ray.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
In red ink in an unidentified hand on verso: Mary Shelley daughter of Godwin & Mary Wollstonecraft, authoress of Frankenstein &c - to C. Ollier Editor of the New Monthly Mage.
Provenance
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Asking that he send her copies of the last edition Wordsworth's poems and "the first publication of Keats containing Sleep & Poetry" and commenting on the health of her son, "I consider Percy as well now, though I am still careful of him - thank god it is so well over!".
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