Roberts, W., undated

Autograph manuscript possibly in Roberts's hand of a piece concerning a forged broadside of text from Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Proposal for Putting Reform to the Vote throughout the Kingdom" (1817). According to the piece, the broadside was titled "Universal Suffrage, 1811." The manuscript quotes Wise in confirming the broadside as a fake, ironically, due to an analysis of the punches used for the type and the size of the paper on which the forgery was printed.