Ashley MS 915

Account of the Death and cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley, together with a description of his life and character and that of his companion Captain Williams, who was drowned with Shelley in his yacht, the ''Don Juan'', by J. H. Leigh Hunt; probably 1822. The MS. is in the hand of Hunt''s wife, but has corrections and additions in his own hand, and was apparently intended, to judge by the instructions to the printers written on the MS. by Hunt, for inclusion in his journal The Liberal, but was never printed. The MS. includes a transcript (ff. 7-20) of an account by Edward Trelawny of the death and cremation of Shelley and Williams. Portraits of Shelley and Hunt, and photographs of Shelley''s house in Pisa and of the scenes of his death and cremation are bound together separately (ff. ii-vib). Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, p. 202.

Octavo; ff. vi+28.

Captain Edward Ellerker Williams, friend of P B Shelley: James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: Account of death and cremation of P. B. Shelley and Captain Williams by James Henry Leigh Hunt: 1822: Copy by Mrs Hunt, with autogr. notes.

includes:

• f. ii Amelia Curran, artist: Art. Portraits: Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: Walker and Cockerell; engravers: Portrait after Amelia Curran of Percy Bysshe Shelley, engraved by Walker and Cockerell: 1819.
• f. iii Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter: James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Art. Portraits: Walker and Cockerell; engravers: Portrait after Benjamin Robert Haydon of James Henry Leigh Hunt, engraved by Walker and Cockerell: n.d.
• f. iv Art. Miscellaneous: Pisa, Italy: Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: John Drinkwater, playwright and theatre manager: Photograph of Shelley''s house at Pisa by John Drinkwater: 1925.
• ff. v, vi Art. Miscellaneous: Viareggio, Italy: John Drinkwater, playwright and theatre manager: Views by John Drinkwater of Viareggio: 1925: Photographs.
• ff. 1-27 James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Biography: Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: Description of life and character by James Henry Leigh Hunt of Percy Bysshe Shelley: 1822?: Copy by Mrs Hunt, with autogr. notes.
• ff. 7-20 Captain Edward Ellerker Williams, friend of P B Shelley: James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet: Edward John Trelawny, author and adventurer: Account of death and cremation of P. B. Shelley and Capt. E. E. Williams by Edward John Trelawny, with notes by James Henry Leigh Hunt: 1822?: Copy.
• ff. 21-27 Captain Edward Ellerker Williams, friend of P B Shelley: James Henry Leigh Hunt, essayist and poet: Description of life and character of E. E. Williams by James Henry Leigh Hunt: 1822?: Copy by Mrs Hunt, with autogr. notes.