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‘At Jane’s request I inclose you this letter’, Mary writes to Thomas Medwin. She is clearly still in shock, and the letter is brief and disjointed: S. & I were united exactly 8 years ago yesterday—on the 4th of August he wd have been 30—Except that his health was getting better & better I wd not selfishly desire that his angelic spirit shd again inhabit that frame which tormented it—he is alive & often with me now—Every one feels the same, all say that he was an elemental spirit imprisoned here but free & happy now—I am not now—one day I hope to be worthy to join him—my life is chalked out to me—it will be one of study only—Except for my poor boy—

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (sender)
Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869 (recipient)

1822 July 29

4 sheets

manuscript

paper

eng

autographs (manuscripts)
letters (correspondence)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

1822

Gift of Colonel and Mrs Call, 1912.

Mrs Call’s father was Trelawny.

KSH

Terrace Room

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