Found 10 collections related to Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

Maurice Buxton Forman, English postal worker and literary editor. He was the son of the bibliographer and forger H. Buxton Forman, and has been posthumously implicated as a party to his father's literary counterfeit schemes. Forman produced several works on George Meredith, and followed his father as the editor of the letters of Keats. · To Neville Rogers, Shelley scholar : 5 autograph letters signed : 1948-1953 : (S'ANA 0912.37--41) : three of five written on printed South African "air letter" sheets ; discussing various literary subjects, including Keats and Shelley. less

Sir Sidney Patrick Shelley, 8th Baronet, British army officer. He was the grandnephew of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet. · To Louise Schutz Boas, biographer : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 Dec 1955 : (S'ANA 0431a) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Colombo Club, Colombo, Ceylon : begins, "Just received this. Regret to say I know of no paintings or portraits of Elizabeth Shelley ..."; with Boas's prompting letter to Sir Sidney on the verso (S'ANA 0431b), dated 12 Nov 1955, saying she is "trying to find a portrait or miniature of Elizabeth Shelley, sister of the poet, said to have resembled him so closely that they might have been taken for twins ..."; with the postmarked envelope from Sir Sidney to Boas. less

Frederick L. Jones, American professor and scholar of British Romanticism. His 1964 edition of the collected letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley remains the authoritative text of Shelley's correspondence. · To Clinton N. Rutan of New Jersey : 13 letters; all with the envelopes, on University of Pennsylvania English Department stationery; all addressed from 4537 Pine Street, Philadelphia 43, Pa. : -- 1 typescript letter signed : 15 Aug 1951 : (S'ANA 0947.a01) : begins, "I am always glad to hear from Shelley addicts and collectors ..."; mentioning his "error" with regard to the illustration of E. E. Williams "from a sketch by himself." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Dec 1951 : (S'ANA 0947.a02) : not having received a reply from Rutan, wondering if his letter had been delivered; begins, "Last summer I was much pleased to have your letter of August 8 from Maine." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Feb 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a03) : begins, "Your failure to answer my letters of August 15 and December 3 is so unaccountable that I am beginning to wonder if by your letter of last August 8 you were 'pulling my leg' ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Mar 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a04) : begins, "I was delighted to have your letter of March 1st and with it a dispersal of the mystery which has surrounded our correspondence ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Apr 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a05) : begins, "Has our correspondence again suffered from Post Office inefficiency?" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Apr 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a06) : begins, "I am delighted that you are coming down on Saturday, May 3." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Jun 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a07) : mentioning Rutan's transcription of E. E. Williams's diary; begins, "Since in your letter of May 19 you said you were sending the photostats in a day or so, I was waiting to announce to you their arrival. They have not come yet ..." -- 12 Jun 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a08) : begins, "Thank you so much for the photostats of the one Shelley the fine Mary Shelley and the one Godwin letters." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Jul 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a09) : begins, "I have been tardy in acknowledging receipt of the [Arlington?] Park sale catalogue ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Sep 1952 : (S'ANA 0947.a10) : begins, "Your letter of August 5 found me in the midst of graduate final examinations ..." -- 1 inscription signed : [31 Jan 1953] : (S'ANA 0947.a11) : on an offprint from Modern Language Quarterly of Jones's 1952 essay, "Macaulay's Theory of Petry in Milton." -- -- 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Sep 1954 : (S'ANA 0947.a12) : begins, "Thanks for your card last August from Cape Porpoise." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 May 1958 : (S'ANA 0947.a13) : begins, "You are truly an astonishing correspondent. After passing over half a dozen of my letters of two or three years ago, you write me a nice letter which gives no hint of your long silence." Also held is an empty envelope from Jones to Rutan, stamped with the date of 16 Sep 1952. less

William P. Wreden, American antiquarian bookseller. · To Clinton N. Rutan of New Jersey : 1 typescript letter signed : 26 Jul 1951 : (S'ANA 0947.L) : 2 pages (2 single sheets) : return address Box 84, Burlingame, California (printed stationery) : begins, "Thank you for your letter of July 18th. Your name has been placed on our mailing list to receive catalogs. In the meantime I am pleased to quote the following books by and about Shelley . . . .". less

The Beat poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001), a native of New York City, taught intermittently at the State University of New York at Buffalo during the 1960s. Shelley was among his favorite poets. Lecture on Shelley's Prometheus unbound : (S'ANA 0928) : typescript with autograph annotations and two autograph pages, 1964. Notes (6 typed pages and 2 handwritten) for a lecture on the Promethean myth and Shelley's lyrical drama Prometheus unbound. Signed by Corso at the top of the first page, and dated: Buffalo 1964. less

Gilbert Murray, Australian-born British classical scholar and internationalist. To Neville Rogers, Shelley scholar : 1 typescript letter signed "G. M." : 27 Nov 1953 : (S'ANA 0912.42) : from Yatscombe, Boar's Hill, Oxford (printed stationery) : begins, "I think Shelley was really quoting from the Nichomachean Ethics, 1177B, though the words are not exactly the same ..."; with spaces in the body left for Greek words, which Murray has written ink ink. With the stamped, postmarked envelope. less

Originally housed in his Park Avenue apartment, the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library moved to a suite in midtown Manhattan after Pforzheimer's death in 1957. There, Kenneth Neill Cameron, leading Shelley scholar of the time, continued his work as editor of the multi-volume Shelley and his Circle publication, years later followed by Donald H. Reiman. Mihai Handrea, hired as librarian in 1970, became the first curator of The Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle (a portion of the much larger Pforzheimer Library) when it moved to the New York Public Library in 1986. 23 manuscript boxes of correspondence, proofs, and printed material comprising the Pforzheimer Library papers in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle. less

R. H. Ellis-Davies, a family member of Ellis W. Davies, the Welsh solicitor and politician. To Louise Schutz Boas, biographer : 1 typescript letter signed : 28 Nov 1960 : (S'ANA 0432) : from Craig Wen, Caernarvon : regarding a sideboard table in his family's possession which once belonged to Percy Bysshe Shelley. Along with a color photographic slide of the sideboard, in a cardboard slip marked with a note [in the hand of Ellis-Davies?] explaining the sideboard was made for Shelley at Tanyrallt. less

Theodore G. Ehrsam, American professor, writer and bibliographer. To a Clinton N. Rutan of New Jersey : 3 autograph postcards and 1 annotated flyer : 21 Oct 1955 - 1 Oct 1958 : (S'ANA 0947e) : one post card relating to an article on "Shelley's Brother In-Law" ; the flyer is for a Barnes and Noble reading list relating to a radio program hosted by Ehrsam. less