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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley

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Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron.
Shelley had been delayed there by Hunt's personal situation (his wife Marianne had been told she did not have long to live) and by Byron's complicated affairs. He hints that Edward Williams might sail back to the Villa Magni ahead of him. Hurriedly concluding the letter, Shelley hopes that Mary was reconciled to staying at the Villa Magni, where he had never been happier, but where she had been ill and wretchedly depressed. In a PS he tells her that he has found the manuscript of his translation

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Series
The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Henry Cockburn
Keywords
#greatwriters
poetry
literature
Percy Bysshe Shelley
shelley's ghost
mary shelley
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 02/12/2010
Duration: 00:03:23

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