Scope and arrangement
· To Elizabeth Gunning, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Aug 1800 : (MISC 2291) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Englefield Cottage near Egham, Surrey : begins, "With that sincere regret, which my heart never fails to experience, when worth and Genius fade from their transitory scene of suffering, I read the account of your domestic misfortune ...".
· To Jane Porter, novelist : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1799] : (MISC 2294) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "On Tuesday, my charming and amiable friends, we will enjoy your society ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Aug 1800 : (MISC 2295) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Englefield Cottage near Egham, Surrey : begins, "I should have done myself the pleasure of answering your letter before, had I not be [sic] very much indisposed ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Aug 1800 : (MISC 2290) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Englefield Cottage near Egham, Surrey : begins, "Lovely and amiable friend! What will you think of our shameful silence? What will you say of our good manners?" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Sep 1800 : (MISC 2292) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Cottage : begins, "I should have acknowledged your letter, in answer to that which I wrote to Miss Gunning, had I not met with an accident ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Oct 1800 : (MISC 2293) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "Near a month confined to my bed, and every day expecting expecting [sic] to prove that 'there is another and a better world' ...".
· To Robert Ker Porter, painter, writer, and diplomat : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter third person : 15 Apr 1797 : (MISC 2289) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Clifford Street : thanking him "for his very charming verses and picture..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Jul 1800 : (MISC 2450) : 3 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "As Fame has a ladder which all must, sooner or later ascend, who have Genius to guide them, and as you have made long strides towards the very top of its utmost altitude, I wish to hang upon your skirts, a biographical sketch, of the painter of Seringapatam.
· To Samuel Jackson Pratt, writer and actor : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Jul 1799 : (S'ANA 0223) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "I am up to the brain in your gleanings --! I admire!! I am amused beyong expression!!" Published in full with commentary as SC 23 in Shelley and his Circle v. 1, p. 208f. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 31 Aug 1800 : (S'ANA 0224) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Englefield Cottage, near Egham, Surrey : begins, "I never wish to have any introductins to my own poetry in the M[orning] P[ost] and therefore I thought of course that yours did not require it ..." Published in full with commentary as SC 29 in Shelley and his Circle v. 1, p. 231f.