Found 5 collections related to Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, 1800-1873

The Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence and documents. The writings include some original verses; his school exercise book from Oxford, which contains a holograph poem "Oh wretched mortal" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (PBS 0215); and a heavily annotated copy of his published travel book Two Hundred and Nine Days. Correspondents include his friend B. Hoskyns Abrahall, a commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy; Leight Hunt, the poet, journalist, and critic; Thomas Love Peacock, the satirical novelist and poet; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the novelist; Percy Bysse Shelley, the poet; and a few others. Documents include an 1816 passport, and a legacy discharge document for his bequest under Percy Bysshe Shelley's will. less

The Teresa Guiccioli manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings consist of a four-part autobiographical work; five notebooks recording her thoughts, activities, and accounts of Lord Byron's life; and thirty-three books from Guiccioli's personal library with her annotations. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1820 and 1822. Correspondents include Lady Blessington, the Irish-born writer and literary hostess; Lord Byron, the English poet (her lover); Victor Hugo, the French writer; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the English novelist; and over a dozen others. There are also four pieces of correspondence by others in Guiccioli's hand. less