Books: Well red at Oxford Inside an old trunk destined for a car boot sale, a thrilling cache of letters has emerged to shed light on the student days of the revolutionary firebrand and poet, P B Shelley. Suzi Feay is transported by a brilliant philosophical prank

The Independent on Sunday | April 24, 2005| | Copyright

The letters are strung together on ancient blue cord and there are traces of a blob of sealing wax. Nearly 200 years ago, the recipient filed them and forgot about them. But the paper is not so brown and decayed as you might expect, and the content is immortally fresh. Susannah Morris, the manuscripts expert at Christie's who has been investigating the letters' provenance and history, has discreetly withdrawn and left me alone to commune with them. Am I going to read them, or am I, like the William Blake-crazed serial killer of Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon, going to take the precious ...

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