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TITLE

Autograph letter by Mary Shelley to Edward Trelawny

SUMMARY

Mary Shelley writes to Trelawny about the death of Lord Byron, whose funeral cortège had passed by her house. Writing from Kentish Town, ‘our prison’, Mary’s thoughts turn to Italy, the past, and old friends. She also gives Trelawny news of Claire Clairmont, and ‘her present painful mode of life’ as a governess in Moscow, and of the Hunts, who ‘live out of Florence, without any society’.

NAME

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (sender)
Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881 (recipient)

PLACE

Kentish Town

DATE

1824 July 28

ITEM

4 sheets

MEDIUM

manuscript

MATERIALS

paper

LANGUAGE

eng

GENRE

autographs (manuscripts)
letters (correspondence)

PERSONAL NAME SUBJECT

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron, 1788-1824

TOPICAL TERM SUBJECT

funerals

CHRONOLOGICAL SUBJECT

1824

ACQUISITION NOTE

Gift of Colonel and Mrs Call, 1912.

PROVENANCE

Mrs Call’s father was Trelawny.

LOCATION

KSH

Terrace Room

SHL-2.13


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