Found 4 collections related to Shelley, Percy Florence, Sir, 1819-1889

Sir Percy Florence Shelley, third Baronet, son of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the novelist. The Percy Florence Shelley manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include two holograph poems, "Giovanni at Putney" and "Song of Venus to the Ground Shark." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1862 and 1886. Correspondents include: Claire Clairmont, of the Shelley circle (his mother's step-sister); Leigh Hunt, poet, journalist and critic; Sir Timothy Shelley, second baronet (his grandfather); T. J. Wise, book collector and forger; and over a dozen others. less

The Leigh Hunt manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph draft of his poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; a holograph fragment of his preface to Shelley's Mask of Anarchy; and his address book circa the mid-1850s. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1817 and 1826 and discusses his experiences in Italy, including the death of Shelley; family matters; and publishing business. Correspondents include: the Irish poet William Allingham; the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham; the writer and painter William Hazlitt; the writers Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley; and over seventy others. less