Autograph letter signed : Rome, Scala Dante, to Miss Haslam [daughter of John Haslam, physician], 1878 Aug. 25.

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Autograph letter signed : Rome, Scala Dante, to Miss Haslam [daughter of John Haslam, physician], 1878 Aug. 25.

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Asking her to convince Mrs. Wilkinson to allow him to borrow a letter from Shelley to Severn, which had accompanyied a presentation copy of Adonais, in order to prove that Severn was the friend present at Keats's death. Severn had given the letter to Mr. Wilkinson in the 1840s; he writes in response to an edition of the poem published by Buxton Forman which does not identify Severn as "the imaginary friend."

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