Other items in the collection include one autograph letter, signed, from Percy Bysshe Shelley to "S. Turner" (February 26, 1816) concerning Shelley's grandfather's estate, two autograph orders, signed, to Messrs. Brookes & Co., London, to pay Charles Clairmont (April 9, 1815) and "Mr. Sutton" (February 21, 1818), and an engraved bank check, signed by Shelley and payable to himself (February 16, 1818). Also present is one autograph letter, signed, from Percy Florence Shelley to Edith Nicolls Clark (October 4, 1873) regarding the papers of Percy Bysshe Shelley. and The collection consists of letters and documents regarding Percy Bysshe Shelley that primarily relate to Shelley's finances. The bulk of the collection is held in one bound volume containing fifteen autograph letters, signed, by Shelley's father Timothy Shelley in 1811: one to his son Percy Bysshe Shelley, one to his brother-in-law Captain John Pilfold, and thirteen to London solicitor William Whitton; at the front of the volume are two legal documents signed by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Timothy Shelley, William Whitton, and solicitor P. W. Longdill in 1815. The material concerns Percy Bysshe Shelley's expulsion from the University of Oxford, his debts, and his financial arrangements with his father.
Description:
Order (1818): gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Blum, 1953., Oxford University material: purchased on the Frank Altschul Fund, 1937., Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet., Percy Florence Shelley letter: purchased from Sotheby's (Sotheby's sale 1975 July 15) on the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize Fund, 1975., and Turner letter: purchased from Hamill and Barker on the Elizabeth W. Manwaring Fund, 1956.
