Autograph cheque signed in full (“Percy Bysshe Shelley”), requiring Messrs Brookes & Co of Chancery Lane to pay £4 to “Mr Peacock or bearer”; the signature as usual cancelled on encashment (but with a dry pen and with little loss of legibility), one page, oblong 8vo, laid down, London, 6 March (altered from 25 February) 1818 SHELLEY TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, written six days before leaving England for the last time. Peacock – who a little later that year was to portray his friend as Scythrop in Nightmare Abbey – wrote in his reminiscences: “I saw him for the last time on Tuesday, the 10th of March. The evening was a remarkable one, as being the first performance of an opera by Rossini in England...I supped with Shelley and his travelling companions after the opera. They departed early the next morning”. Shelley´s last communication from England was a note from Dover on 12 March to Brookes´s, instructing them to honour no other bill but those to Peacock, Godwin, his publisher Ollier, and his agent at Marlow.
Autograph cheque signed in full (“Percy Bysshe Shelley”), requiring Messrs Brookes & Co of Chancery Lane to pay £4 to “Mr Peacock or bearer”; the signature as usual cancelled on encashment (but with a dry pen and with little loss of legibility), one page, oblong 8vo, laid down, London, 6 March (altered from 25 February) 1818 SHELLEY TO THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, written six days before leaving England for the last time. Peacock – who a little later that year was to portray his friend as Scythrop in Nightmare Abbey – wrote in his reminiscences: “I saw him for the last time on Tuesday, the 10th of March. The evening was a remarkable one, as being the first performance of an opera by Rossini in England...I supped with Shelley and his travelling companions after the opera. They departed early the next morning”. Shelley´s last communication from England was a note from Dover on 12 March to Brookes´s, instructing them to honour no other bill but those to Peacock, Godwin, his publisher Ollier, and his agent at Marlow.
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