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SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Autograph Document Signed, check to fellow
writer Leigh Hunt for £50 drawing on Messrs Brooker & Co. 2
3
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4
x7 inches; ink cancella-
tion affecting signature, minor scattered soiling, vertical folds.
London, 18 December 1810
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“THE PUBLIC CAN BE FORCEDTO DO SOMETHING FORWRITERS”
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SINCLAIR, UPTON.Typed Letter Signed, to Julia Ward Howe, soliciting a state-
ment from Howe supporting his view that those whose work is writing for public causes
cannot earn enough to survive. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; short closed separations at
folds.
Edge Moor, DE, 5 July 1910
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. . . [W]hat I am trying to do is to make people realize that there are kinds of creative writing
of great importance and service to the community which do not provide their writers with a liv-
ing . . . . Now your work has been of great service and inspiration to the country, and a
statement that it has not paid you enough to live upon would be of benefit in the prop[a]ganda
which I am carrying on. . . .
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. . . It seems to me that the time has come when the public can be forced to do something for
writers while they are still alive. . . .”
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The ‘Independent’ will publish the letters on July 28 . . . .”
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