xt7qjq0stw34_3458 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to William Godwin text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to William Godwin 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_34/Folder_8/Multipage11934.pdf 1815 January 7 1815 1815 January 7 
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Peal accession no. 10578. Includes a transcript and a summary of the letter.
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 SHEILEY, PERCY BYSSIE (1792-1822).
Poet. Bishopsgate.

AOI'. so “'50 William GOde-no 7 Jan. 1815[ia801816]
hp. (double sheet, quarto). moomplete.

He writes out an account of his affairs, including
details of his grandfather‘s will and his
relations with his own father, Sir Timothy
Shelley.

Printed in Ingpen's edition of Shelley's letters
as No. 213 (I, LLLLBi‘f.) The balance of the letter
has not been recovered, nor did Ingpen know its
location. Shelley and Mary Godwin had eloped
in August, 1811;, and were finally married in
December, 1816. This is one of a long series
of letters to Godwin, who was phi1030p11er
enough to accept loans (as they were called)
from the man who was living with his daughter.

 

 Bishopsgate Jan 7.1815.

Sir

I will endeavour to give you as clear as
possible ["an" cancelled] a history of the
proceedings between myself 8; my father.

A small portion of the estates to which I

am entitled in reversion, were comprehended

in the will of Mr. John Shelley my great

uncle, £2 devised to the same uses as the

larger portion which was settled on my fathers
marriage jointly by my grandfather & father.

This portion was valued at £18000, which any father
purchased of me with an equivalent of £11000.

I signed on this occasion two deeds, the one was to
empower my attorney to suffer what‘s called a
recovery, the other a counterpart of the deed

of conveyance.

Before these transactions however, & at the

very commencement of our negotiations, I signed

a deed which was the preliminary & the basis

of the whole business. My grandfather had left

me the option of receiving a life estate in some
very large sum (I think £1LL0,OOO) on condition

that I would prolong the entail so as to possess
only a life estate in my original patrimony.

These conditions I neVer intended to accept,
although Longhill considered them very favourable
to me & urged me by all means to grasp at the

offer. It was ["to" cancelled] my father's
interest & wish that I should refuse the conditions,
because my younger brother, ["would" cancelled]
inherit [instead of ”inherits"], in default of my
compliance mlththem, the life estate. Longdill

& Inhitton thereupon, made an agreement that I should

 

 Sir

resign my rights to this property, &
that my father in exchange for this concession
should give me the full price for any reversion.
In compliance with the terms of this agreement
I signed a deed in parting (‘2) that I disclaimed
my grandfathers property. My father did not
sign his part of the agreement because he could not
do so without forfeiting the new entail, which
says, that whoever in whatsoever manner endeavours
to break thro the intentions of the testator shall
not enjoy the fortune: but Mr. Whitton engaged
tacitly to Longhill that my father would buy the
reversion on the terms already settled.

Now, Whittcn professes my fathers willingness

to proceed, but urges every consideration
calculated to delay the progressof the affair
Longhill told me that he saw Whitton wished

to procure as much delay as possible, but that
he still thought it was their intention not entirely
to give up the negotiation. Whether both Whitton
8: Longdill are not quietly making their advantage
[”from" cancelled] out of the inexperience &
credulity of myself 8c my father isa doubt that
has crossed my mind.

You say that you will receive no more than £1250
for the [one word cancelled] payment of those
incumbranc‘es which you think I may be considered

as flecially bound to relieve you. I would not
desire to persuade you to sell the approbation

of your friends for the difference between this

sum, & that which your necessities actually require.
but the mention of your friends has suggested a
plan to my mind which possibly you may be able

to execute. You have undoubtedly some well wishers
who altho they would refuse to give you so large

a sum as £1200 ["would” cancelled] might not refuse
to lend it you on security which they might consider
unexceptionable. I think you could Lay before any
rich friend such a statement of your case, as,

that if he could refuse to leand 1200 on my security

 

 his deSire of benefiting you.must be exceedingly
slight. There is every probability in favour of

the arrangement with my father being completed

within the year. I can give evidence of the existence
of the negotiation between us. If this prospect

should fail, I still remain heir to property

of 6. or 7000 a year. Why not ask Graltan or
Mackintosh or Lord Holland, whom I have heard

named as your

[the rest of this letter is wanting]