John Mackenzie Kennedy manuscript material : 1 item, 1857

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John Mackenzie Kennedy manuscript material : 1 item, 1857

ยท Holograph memoir, "Reminiscences of Percy Bysshe Shelley" : 1857 : (S'ANA 0692) : 24 pages of text, with a title-page and a dedication page, to "the dearest friends of my boyhood"; attribution on the title-page in the hand of Hellen Shelley; text begins, "I had just completed my sixteenth year, when I joined the Depot of the 76 Regiment, at Horsham ..." Published with commentary as SC 776 (Appendix) in Shelley and his Circle, v. IX, p. 168-185.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7630725

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Kennedy, John Mackenzie, b. 1797.

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John Mackenzie Kennedy, British army officer and friend of the Shelley family. From the description of John Mackenzie Kennedy manuscript material : 1 item, 1857 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 506514579 ...

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...