Thomas Love Peacock to Percy Bysshe Shelley | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Thomas Love Peacock to Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelfmark

MS. Abinger c. 66, fols. 56-7

Summary

Original, signed.

Political and social news; listing the contents of a box Peacock has sent to Italy; Peacock's intentions to write a romance and publish a political pamphlet; efforts to raise a subscription for a poor teacher; et al.

Mentions Sir Samuel Romilly; Dowager Marchioness of Landsowne, [Mary] Petty; ?Norton; [William Alexander] Maddocks [Madocks]

Incipit: I have again allowed a...