Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English hedonist, poet, and breeder of Arab horses. He was the husband of Byron's granddaughter, Lady Anne Blunt. · 1 autograph note signed "W. S. B." : [shortly after 17 Aug 1898] : (S'ANA 0404) : ¹/₄ page...
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English hedonist, poet, and breeder of Arab horses. He was the husband of Byron's granddaughter, Lady Anne Blunt. · 1 autograph note signed "W. S. B." : [shortly after 17 Aug 1898] : (S'ANA 0404) : ¹/₄ page (double sheet) : [no place] : written on the back of an autograph letter of Henry Child of Slinfold, Horsham [England] to Arthur Caffin, dated 17 Aug 1898; Blunt's note reads in full: "Letter forwarded to me by Arthur Caffin as to his grandfather having been at school with Shelley at Warnham." Child's letter begins, "I met today Col. Braburne intimate friend of Genl. Baynes, he says that he is quite sure that Genl. Mrs. Baynes would be pleased to meet Mr. Blunt Lady Anne show them Field Place ..."; also including, "[Shelley] went to school at Warnham with our grandfather Mills who I believe thought he was mad. Used to chaff him about getting his hair cut I expect." Tipped into Blunt's copy of Shelley's letters to Elizabeth Hitchener; shelved as *Pforz BT (Shelleyana. 07).
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