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Autograph letter signed to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 January 1816

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Item data

Title

Autograph letter signed to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 January 1816

Collection

Pynson Wilmot Longdill manuscript material

Names

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Addressee)
Longdill, Pynson Wilmot, 1779 or 1780-1823 (Author)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1816-01-26

Library Location

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz MS (S'ANA 0041)

Genres

Correspondence

Notes

Funding: Digitized through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Citation/Reference: Shelley and his Circle, SC 306
Content: From Grays Inn : begins, "I have seen Mr. Whitton, and I find that he has not been, by any means, idle, or negligent of the affair between Sir Timothy [your]self."

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b18930259
Archives ID: 22060
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ed822520-1130-0133-7fbf-60f81dd2b63c

Rights

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Autograph letter signed to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 January 1816" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1816. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed822520-1130-0133-7fbf-60f81dd2b63c

APA format

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1816). Autograph letter signed to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 January 1816 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed822520-1130-0133-7fbf-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Autograph letter signed to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 January 1816" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 8, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed822520-1130-0133-7fbf-60f81dd2b63c

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