Field Place
September 6, 1810
Sir,
I have to return your my thankful acknowledgement for the receipt of the books, which arrived as soon as I had any reason to expect, the superfluity shall be balanced as soon as I pay for some books which I shall trouble you to bind for me - I enclose you the title-page of the Poems, which you will see you have mistaken on account of the illegibility of my hand-writing. I have had the last proof impression from my printer this morning, and I suppose the execution of the work will not be long delayed. As soon as it possibly can, it shall reach you, and believe me, Sir, grateful for the interest you take in it. I am, Sir, Your obedient, humble servant, Percy B. Shelley
[Addressed - Mr. Stockdale, Bookseller 41 Pall Mall, London.
Johe Stockdale was the eldest son a Cumberland man who became a publisher and printer in London circa 1783. He was married to Mary Ridgeway, sister of a well-known Piccadilly publisher. Stockdale was admitted to the freedom of the Stationers Company in 1802, compiled a number of books himself, and gained a reputation by publishing fiction and poetry at the author's expense.
(Taken from Roger Ingpen's 1909 edition of The Letters of Percy Shelley, published by Isaac Pitman & Sons, London)
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