| dc.creator | Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-05T19:22:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-11-05T19:22:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1812-12-27 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/6159 | |
| dc.description | Autograph letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg. Written from Tanyralt [Tan-yr-Allt, Wales]. Transcriptions included. | |
| dc.format | PDF | |
| dc.format.medium | 3 pages, double sheet, 22.2 x 18.3 cm | |
| dc.relation | William Luther Lewis Collection | |
| dc.rights | Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any photograph. | |
| dc.source | FF-B2, Housed in a box covered in brown buckram with the spine gold lettered "Autograph Letters of Percy B. Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg and Others" | |
| dc.subject | Authors | |
| dc.subject | Letters | |
| dc.subject | Autographs | |
| dc.title | Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Jefferson Hogg | |
| dc.type | Image | |
| dc.identifier.digitool | 97693 | en_US |
| dc.date.captured | 2012-04-04 | |
| dc.description.transcription | Tanyralt. . . . Dec. 27. 1812.
My dear Friend
Your letter to Harriet contains some hints of the possibility of your being at leisure in a short time. I sincerely hope that your schemes would allow a visit to Tanyralt. The advantage of a mail within 17 miles would entirely obviate any trouble in the affair. – We all anxiously wish you wd. Come, & hope that your hint was something better than a mere lure for the opportunity of refusal. – We are all surprised at the complaints of cold which issue from London. For a day or two indeed it bit a little in the first of the morning, but nothing more.
Believe me that I sympathise in your feelings on Buonaparte & Peace very warmly. Buonaparte is a personage to whom I have a very great objection. He is to me a hateful & despicable being. He is seduced by the grossest & most vulgar ambition into actions which only differ from those of pirates by virtue of the number of men & the variety of resources under his command. – His talents appear to me altogether contemptible & common place; incapable as he is of comparing connectedly the most obvious propositions; or relishing any pleasure truly enrapturing. – Excepting Lord Castlereagh you could not have mentioned any character but Buonaparte whom I contemn & abhor more vehe [p. 2] mently . . With respect to these victories in the North, if they tend towards Peace they are good . . . . . if otherwise they are bad. – This is the standard by which I shall ultimately measure my approbation of them. – At the same time I cannot but say that the first impression which they made on me, was one of horror & regret. –
Brougham’s defense was certainly not so good as it might have been; was denied him. He could neither [deleted] not speak treason, he could not commit a libel. & therefore his client was not to be defended on the basis of moral truth . . . . He was compelled to hesitate when truth was rising to his lips; he could utter that which he did utter only circumlocution & irony. – The Sol. Gen’s speech appeared to me the consummation of all shameless insolence. & the address of Ld Ellenborough, so barefaced a piece of timeservingness, that Im sure his heart must have laughed at his lips as he pronounced it.
I have as yet received no answer from the Duke of Norfolk. – I scarcely expect one. – I do not see that it is the interest of my Father to come to terms during my nonage, perhaps even not after. – Do you know I cannot prevail upon myself to care much about it. – Harriet is very happy as we are, & I am very happy; -- I question if intimacy with my [p. 3] relations would add at all to our tranquillity. – They would be plotting & playing the Devil, or shewing us to some people who would do so: -- or they would bore & be dull. Or they wd. Take stupid likes or dislikes, & they certainly might cramp the liberty of our movements. – In fact, I have written to the duke. I can say to my Conscience “I have done my best” but I shall not be very unhappy if I fail. –
I continue vegetable. Harriet means to be slightly animal until the arrival of Spring. – My health is much improved by it. tho partly perhaps by my removal from your nerve racking & spirit quelling metropolis.
We are divided between two opinions. Whether you really will allow us the heartfelt pleasure of seeing you here this winter; or whether your suggestion was a quiz.
My dear friend
I remain
Yours very affectionately
Percy B Shelley
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