Found 49 collections related to Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917

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

Charles Fairfax Murray, English artist and art connoisseur. To Harry Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Jul 1879 : (S'ANA 0247i) : from 29 New Bond Street, London (Ellis & White printed stationery) : begins, "I have rec.d a note from Miss [Paola] Clairmont this morning ..."; with a transcription of the note, which discusses Edward Silsbee. less

Harry Buxton Forman, English bibliographer and forger. He wrote a great deal of critical and bibliographic literary scholarship throughout his life, most notably on Shelley and Keats, all the while maintaining a career in the Post Office. In 1886 Forman met fellow bibliographer T. J. Wise through the Shelley Society, and the two began secretly printing counterfeit publications of works of famous authors, subsequently validating the authenticity of the books through their own bibliographic works. Their scheme remained largely undetected until nearly two decades after Forman's death, with the publication of John Carter and Graham Pollard's Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. The Harry Buxton Forman manuscript material in the Pforzheimer collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: the holograph text of his Memoir of Shelley, as published in the 1892 Aldine edition of Shelley's works ; papers relating to his "The Building of the Idylls," an essay on Tennyson ; and over a dozen essays and works of criticism on Shelley or Shelley-related publications. The correspondence is dated from between 1877 and 1913, and mostly discusses Shelley scholarship. Correspondents include: Paola Clairmont, niece of Claire Clairmont ; Mary Cowden Clarke, literary scholar and writer ; E. J. Trelawny, writer and adventurer ; and Thomas James Wise, book collector and forger. less

Vernon Horace Rendall, British editor and writer. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Dec 1908 : (S'ANA 0219c) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Athenæum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. (printed stationery) : marked "Private"; begins, "I know all about the Shelley letter which was the subject of a recent article in the Athenaeum -- among other things that you are the happy possessor of it. It is obvious that it is not now regarded as a forgery..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Dec 1908 : (S'ANA 0219d) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Athenæum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. (printed stationery) : begins, "Many thanks for your letter. I fear I am held up with much business till after Xmas ...". less

Ambrose George Barker, English writer and revolutionary Socialist. He wrote a work on the coinage of Walthamstow (1911), a history of the Walthamstow Working Men's Club (1933) and a biography of Henry Hetherington, radical publisher (1938). Barker was an an active propagandist for anarchism and atheism from 1880 to 1953. He founded the Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club in 1880, which introduced Socialism to East London (cf. Meltzer, A. I couldn't paint golden angels). To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed ; 14 Sep 1899 (S'ANA 0995), offering a copy of T. J. Hogg's The memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff (1813), which Shelley had reviewed. less

Alfred Forman, English translator. After attending a Wagner concert in 1873, he began producing poetic translations of the operas into English, most of which remain unpublished. He was the brother of bibliographer and forger Harry Buxton Forman. His wife, Alma Murray, was an actor known for her role as Beatrice Cenci in Shelley's The Cenci. To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger, his brother : 8 holograph pieces of correspondence : (S'ANA 0025-09, 25, 28, 31, 33a, 14, 23) (S'ANA 0927) : 7 letters and 1 post card, discussing literary and family matters. less

To Henry S. King & Co., publishers : 3 documents : -- 1 memorandum of agreement signed : 11 Jun 1873 : (G'ANA 0033a) : 1¹/₄ p. (single sheet) : for payment to Paul for his Godwin biography. -- 1 receipt of payment signed : 12 Jun 1873 : (G'ANA 0033b) : 1 p. (single sheet) : for £100 for the Godwin biography. -- 1 receipe of payment signed : 14 May 1875 : (G'ANA 0033c) : 1 p. (single sheet) : for another £100 for the Godwin biography. less

To Harry Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 18 Jun 1889 : (S'ANA 0025.04) : from Athenæum Office, 22, Took's Court, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, E.C. (printed stationery) : reads in full, "Is this correspondence worth a note?" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Jun 1889 : (S'ANA 0025.05) : from Athenæum Office, 22, Took's Court, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, E.C. (printed stationery) : reads in full, "There are more of Harriet Shelley's letters in this week's Nation. Do you think they are worth a notice?" -- 1 autograph post card signed : [25 Jun 1889] : (S'ANA 0025.06) : [no place] : reads in full, "I can wait a week. Have you seen the second batch.". less

Henry Howard Harper (1871-1953), American writer and editor. He served for years as an officer for The Bibliophile Society of Boston, and produced several works privately printed by that group, including The Letters of Charles Lamb (1905); Byron's Malach Hamoves (1918); and Letters of Mary W. Shelley (1918). · To H. Buxton Forman, Shelley bibliographer : 2 typescript letters signed : -- 17 Nov 1910 : (S'ANA 0726) : from Boston; begins, "I herewith enclose a copy of the letter of William Godwin written to John Taylor..." [copy not present]. With penciled notes at the head of the sheet in Forman's hand. -- 13 Dec 1910 : (S'ANA 0727) : from Boston; begins, "I herewith send you the original Godwin letter..." [ms. letter not present]. Godwin's letter of 27 Aug 1814 was used by Forman in his "Elopement of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin as narrated by William Godwin," published by the Bibliophile Society in 1911. Both letters are on Bibliophile Society stationery. less

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

Holograph short story, "The adventures of Ernest Alembert" : 25 May 1830 : (MISC 0187) : 16 p.; stitched within brown paper covers marked in Brontë's juvenile hand, "The Adventures of Ernest / Alembert a Tale by C / Brontë May 25 1830"; begins, "Many Years ago there lived in a certain country, A youth named Ernest Alembert. He came of an ancient & noble race ..." With the bookplate of H. Buxton Forman. less

Notes and commentary on Shelley's Esdaile notebook : (S'ANA 0395) : ca. 1886 : 78 leaves in ruled notebook. This notebook contains transcriptions of Shelley's Esdaile poems through "The Voyage" on the rectos -- the facing versos contain pencil and ink notes by Dowden relating to the text, composition of poems, influences, etc. Shelved as *Pforz (BT) Dowden 01. less

Edward Bibbins Aveling, English Marxist campaigner and companion of Eleanor Marx. To Sydney E. Preston, Shelley Society secretary : 1 autograph post card signed : [2?] Apr 1886 : (S'ANA 0219j) : identifying an issue of Modern Thought containing an article on Shelley, thanking him "for admissions last night." From the files of H. Buxton Forman. less

Mary Cowden Clarke, English literary scholar and writer. She was the eldest daughter of musician Vincent Novello, through whom she met some of the most prominent authors of Romantic period, including John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Charles and Mary Lamb. It was the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare (1807) that ignighted in her a lifelong passion for the works of the Bard of Avon. Along with her husband, Charles Cowden Clarke, she published various books and essays related to Shakespeare throughout her life. · Holograph essay signed, in the form of a letter to the Editor of "The Illustrated London News" : 7 Nov 1895 : (S'ANA 0010) : 10 leaves, stitched together at top left corner : an article on John Keats, recalling her personal encounters with Keats at the home of her father, Vincent Novello, when Shelley was one of the company; also discussing Keats's poetry. less

Edmund Gosse, English librarian, poet, author and critic. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 3 autograph letters signed : -- 1 May 1895 : (MISC 0882) : regarding an Anne Finch manuscript, with the envelope ; along with a response (copy) by Forman dated 3 May 1895 (MISC 882a). -- 7 May 1895 : (MISC 0883) : begins, "I am sorry to say I don't possess a copy of Sylva ...", with the envelope. -- 1 Jun 1898 : (MISC 0884) : regarding the first edition of his book, Gray, along with the envelope. less

Roger Ingpen, British literary editor and writer. His Shelley in England (1917) was among the most important early 20th century accounts of Shelley's life. · To Harry Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Oct 1913 : (S'ANA 0718) : from 28 Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park W. (printed stationery); begins, "I procured the Medwin letter with the object of printing it at some time or another, but I very willingly give you leave to make use of it ...". less

Autograph notes and answers to three questions asked by a Shelley editor : [no date] : (S'ANA 0982) : 1 p., on lined legal-size sheet; pertaining to Shelley's mention of "Arcturus" in Revolt of Islam, Prince Athanase, and The Question, II. Docketed by the recipient, possibly H. B. Forman. less

To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and publisher : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Aug 1881 : (S'ANA 0706) : from Villa Novello, Genoa : reads in full, "Since writing I thought I could answer your first query if not the others. My brother in law Charles Cowden-Clarke was born December 15th 1787 at the village of Enfield, Middlesex, near London." With the stamped, postmarked, printed Villa Novello envelope. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Aug 1881 : (S'ANA 0707) : from Villa Novello (printed stationery) : begins, "Your letter of 26 Aug.t I send on to my sister Mary Cowden-Clarke ..." With the stamped, postmarked, printed Villa Novello envelope. less

William Bell Scott, Scottish poet and painter. · Holograph "Introductory Memoir" to his edition of The Poetical Works of John Keats : [ca. 1873] : (S'ANA 0055) : 23 pages (23 single sheets) : [no place] : written chiefly on rectos, with notes and additions on a few of the versos; begins, "There is no one of the poets who lived at the beginning of this century, -- the greatest era of lyrical and narrative poetry in England, as the Elizabethan age was of dramatic -- of whom we still find it so difficult to speak without bias or prejudice, for or against, as Keats ...". less

To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 26 May 1880 : (S'ANA 0247o) : [no place] : begins, "P[aula] C[lairmont] would not take the 30£ & so gave me the papers and the ahses. Ellis is to come in a day of two ..."; docketed in Forman's hand. -- Along with an autograph letter, in Italian, to Newman from "G. Cini" (S'ANA 0247f), mentioning a consultation with Paola Clairmont on a price for Shelley letters. "G. Cini" is perhaps Giorgio Cini, grandson of Lady Mount Cashell. less

Benjamin Bickley Rogers, English barrister and classical scholar. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 4 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Feb 1878 : (S'ANA 0923) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 3 Old Square Lincoln's Inn : on embossed Athenæum Club stationery; begins, "My translation of [Aristophanes'] The Clouds was written while I was an undergraduate at Oxford ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 May 1878 : (S'ANA 0924) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from 3 Old Square Lincoln's Inn : begins, "I am very much obliged for your kind present. Shelley's play undoubtedly exhibits powers which ... would have made him a formidable rival to the great comic writers of ancient and modern times..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 May 1878 : (S'ANA 0925) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from 3 Old Square Lincoln's Inn : begins, "I am much obliged fopr your kind letter. I had no idea that you were a reviewer as well as an author ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Sep 1878 : (S'ANA 0926) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from 3 Old Square Lincoln's Inn : begins, "I have only returned from Scotland for a day, but I must answer your kind letter which I find on my table ..."; with the postmarked envelope, stamp excised. less

James Rennell Rodd, first Baron Rennell, English diplomat and classical scholar. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Jun 1912 : (S'ANA 0721) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from "British Embassy, Rome" (printed stationery) : begins, "As a first step your paper has been type-written and that will perhaps give you an opportunity of making some of the possible alterations you anticipated you would want to make ..."; with the excised envelope front. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Nov 1912 : (S'ANA 0722) : from "British Embassy, Rome" (printed stationery) : begins, "I am sending you a corrected typed copy of your MS ..."; with the excised stamped and postmarked envelope front, marked with Forman's notes. -- Both letters mounted within the bound manuscript of Forman's essay, "How Shelley approached the Ode to the West Wind" (S'ANA 0720); filed under "Forman.". less

Arthur Severn, English watercolor painter; he was the son of Joseph Severn, the painter and friend of John Keats. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Apr 1912 : (S'ANA 0709) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from 9 Warwick Square, S. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "There is an oil picture by my Father -- of Shelley sitting on the top of the Palace of the Caesars or the Baths of Caracalla ...". less

Robert Browning, English Victorian poet and playwright. The Robert Browning manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of his writings and correspondence. The writings include one holograph verse play (Colombe's Birthday), some autograph corrections of printed proof sheets (La Saisiaz and Jocoseria), and one holograph sonnet, "Tutti ga I so gusti e mi go I mii." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1876 and 1887 and discusses both his professional and personal life, and his Shelley related interests. Correspondents include: Sarah Anne FitzGerald, learned lady ; H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger ; Ellen Heaton, art collector and philanthropist ; George Barnett Smith, author and journalist ; and over forty others. less

Frank T. Sabin, London rare book and autograph dealer. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Sep 1906 : (S'ANA 0052) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from 118, Shaftesbury Avenue, W., London (printed stationery) : begins, "I am returning the proof you were good enough to let me see ..."; along with printed galley proof (2 single-sided sheets) of journal article, "'Queen Mab' and 'The Dæmon of the World,'" with ink corrections in Forman's hand. The article was published in The Athenæum of 14 October 1905. Both items formerly laid in to the Pforzhiemer copy of Queen Mab with Shelley's holograph annotations and drawings. See Shelley and his Circle v. 3, p. 510-511 for brief discussion of the letter. less

Richard Garnett, English librarian and author; spent his career at the British Museum, becoming Keeper of Printed Books in 1890. Garnett wrote and edited several works on Shelley, including Relics of Shelley (1862). · Corrections on printed proofs, "Shelley, Harriet Shelley, and Mr. T. L. Peacock" : [post-6 Mar 1862] : (S'ANA 0693) : substantial manuscript emendations on printer's proofs for his contribution to Relics of Shelley. The published text, with a few minor exceptions, follows the revisions. less

George Bullen, Irish-born librarian at the British Museum. To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Oct 1879 : (S'ANA 0247L) : regarding a Shelley tract, "I think that I may safely say that there is not a copy in the museum.". less

William Clement Drake Esdaile, English barrister and founding secretary of conservationist group The New Forest Association. Esdaile's sister-in-law was Eliza Ianthe Esdaile, née Shelley, daughter of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his first wife, Harriet. To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Dec 1893 : (S'ANA 0219h) : regarding publication permission of poems form the Esdaile Notebook of Shelley's juvenilia. With stamped envelope. less