Autograph letter signed : Dover, to William Godwin, 1816 May 3 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Concerning his financial affairs, remarking that "the limited condition of my fortune is regretted by me" and regretting that he is unable to send Godwin funds; reporting that the chancery courts decided that Shelley and his father may not touch his grandfather's estate and that Shelley is therefore dependent on his father's charity; discussing attempts to raise funds with a post obit security; determining to leave England "perhaps forever," but noting "I respect you, I think well of you, better perhaps than of any other person whom England contains, you were the philosopher who first awakened, & who still as a philosopher to a very great degree regulate my understanding." Giving his address in Geneva