Rediscovered Shelley letters to auction

From the BBC:

A newly discovered set of letters written by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley are to go on sale after being found in a trunk at a house in London.

The correspondence, written by Shelley and his friend and biographer Thomas Jefferson Hogg, was destined for a car boot sale before being identified.

The letters could fetch £30,000 when they go on sale at Christie's in June. . .

The eight letters by the pair were written to Ralph Wedgwood, a member of the famous pottery family, and sheds light on Shelley's eventual emergence as a rebel poet and the theme of atheism in his work. . .

They were discovered at a house in Norbury, south-west London by one of Wedgwood's descendants, who decided to show them to an expert before taking them to a car boot sale.

Posted by David on February 23, 2005 9:28 PM