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Percy Bysshe Shelley Letter to William Godwin Oxford, February to March 1811.

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Sir. Although unacquainted with you otherwise than by your writings,

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I am nevertheless induced by the spirit of your liberal investigation and agency for the rights of humanity which they breathe to address to you,

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to lay aside all bandages of etiquette, to address you as a common friend to nature, justice and reason.

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I enclose you therefore attract,

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which I have compressed from much prolix reasoning in which I believe to come near to the truth which I submit to your inspection.

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Your opinion or the reasons which induce you to think any part of the enclosed reasoning, incorrect or false, will much oblige me.

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The truth of it, if established,

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would very much fascinate the approach of that period when mankind shall see the truth of and be actuated by the morality of political justice.

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I do not add more, but after an attentive perusal,

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perhaps you will favour me with a letter containing your opinions relative to its comparative truth or fallacy.

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Your friend Jennings Stokley, Mr. Monday's Printer High Street, Oxford.

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The book is not and I fear cannot be published.