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09/06/2005
Set of letters by Shelley fetch £45,600
Four letters written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley have been sold for £45,600
by Christie's auction house.
The previously unpublished letters, which provide an insight into Shelley's views on atheism, were written between December 1810 and February 1811.
They were addressed to to Ralph Wedgwood, a member of the pottery family.
The letters, as well as four written by Shelley's best friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg, were
found in an old trunk at a house in south-west London.
The two men were expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for writing a pamphlet about
atheism.
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