MANUSCRIPTS

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to Captain Daniel Roberts; Trelawny sends instructions from Byron about the building of the 'Bolivar'. Sir Joseph Cheyne thought that item numbered 3.6 was part of the same letter as 3.2.

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to Captain Daniel Roberts; Instructions for the construction of the 'Bolivar' for Byron and boats for Shelley, Williams and Trelawny. Published in the Bulletin and Buxton Forman., Gift of Henry Cannon to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association (KSMA), 21 February, 1907.

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to Captain Daniel Roberts; Memorandum narrative of the 'Masi affair'.

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to Captain Daniel Roberts; Gift of Henry Cannon to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association (KSMA), 21 February, 1907.

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to Captain Daniel Roberts; Trelawny relates the circumstances in which he was wounded in Greece and the difficulties of his recovery and the desperate state of affairs present there., Gift of Henry Cannon to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association (KSMA), 21 February 1907.

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to Captain Daniel Roberts; Trelawny starts for Leghorn to board the 'Hercules'. An account of the preparations for the Greek expedition and he hopes that Roberts will accompany them., Gift of Henry Cannon to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association (KSMA), 21 February 1907.

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to Captain Daniel Roberts; Trelawny regrets that Captain Roberts is not joining himself and Lord Byron on the Greek expedition. Byron and Trelawny are 'extraordinarily thick'. Offers Trelawny’s dogs to Roberts., Gift of Henry Cannon to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association (KSMA), 21 February 1907.

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to Captain Daniel Roberts; Gift of Henry Cannon to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association (KSMA), 21 February 1907.

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to Joseph Severn; Keats had asked for the wording on his grave to be simply ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’, but his friend Charles Brown insisted on adding more elaborate wording. Severn, who was making the arrangements in Rome, hesitated. In April 1823 Trelawny arrived in the city to see to Shelley’s remains (‘a Mad Chap’ wrote Severn, ‘who is this odd fish?’), and took an uninvited interest in Keats’s gravestone. He suggested an alternative inscription (see letter, right side)., Gift of Mrs Eleanor Furneaux to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association (KSMA), 8 December 1910.

: Autograph letter by Edward Trelawny to T. Bailey Saunders; Gives his opinion on the monuments proposed to Shelley and Byron.

: Autograph letter by Eleonora Duse to Angelo Signorelli; Eleonora Duse (1858 - 1924) was one of the most remarkable actors of her time. Her chequered affair with Italian poet and patriot Gabriele d’Annunzio is well known; less known is that one night, following a violent nocturnal fight with him at his residence at Palazzo Zuccari in Via Gregoriana, just above the Spanish Steps, a shaken and disheveled Duse fled to 26, Piazza di Spagna to seek help from celebrated Swedish doctor and writer Axel Munthe (1857 - 1949), who, at the turn of the century, lived in the same bedroom where John Keats had died eight decades before. The letter on display was written to Angelo Signorelli (1876 - 1952), a noted physician and discerning art collector, and his common-law wife Olga Resnevič (1883 - 1973), a Russian writer and translator who eventually became Duse’s biographer. The letter is intimate and affectionate: in its pages Duse keeps making references to her own ‘restless soul’, hoping it will find some peace in the end., Gift of Vera Cacciatore.

: Autograph letter by Eveleen Myers to Sir Rennell Rodd; Distressed by the proposal of moving her husband, Frederick William Henry Myers, plaque. Wants to safeguard spot from any future alterations. Says FWHM name is so much greater than that of Shelley or Trelawny.

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