Found 10 collections related to Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879

Charles Gaulis Clairmont, Professor of English in Vienna. He was the step-brother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. To Claire Clairmont, member of the Shelley circle (his sister) : 7 autograph letters signed : 1848-1849 : (CL'ANA 0001-0007) : one with a note to his son Wilhelm ; two with notes to Claire from his wife Antonia. These letters are published in their entirety in The Clairmont Correspondence (1995), edited by Marion Stocking. less

Walter Edwin Peck, American professor and literary scholar. The Walter Edwin Peck manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a typescript introduction to a proposed printing of Shelley's will, and a holograph essay, "Shelley and 'Constantia' (Claire Clairmont)." The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Carl H. Pforzheimer and dated between 1922 and 1931. Accompanying material includes a number of typescript letter copies from Pforzheimer to Peck, and documents from Houghton Mifflin Company relating to sales of Peck's biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. less

Walter Edwin Peck, American professor and literary scholar. The Walter Edwin Peck manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a typescript introduction to a proposed printing of Shelley's will, and a holograph essay, "Shelley and 'Constantia' (Claire Clairmont)." The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Carl H. Pforzheimer and dated between 1922 and 1931. Accompanying material includes a number of typescript letter copies from Pforzheimer to Peck, and documents from Houghton Mifflin Company relating to sales of Peck's biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. less

Caroline Rousseau, French shawl maker. · To Claire Clairmont, of the Shelley circle : 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Nov 1849 : (CL'ANA 0431) : 1 ¹/₃ pages (single sheet) : from 48 rue d'Argenteuil à Paris : in French; acknowledging an order for a shawl; begins, "Oui, Mademoiselle, j'ai mal compris votre première lettre écrite en anglais ..." Madame Rousseau is mentioned in The Clairmont Correspondence (v. 2, p. 447) and The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (v. 3, p. 274). less

Captain Edward Augustus Silsbee, American merchant seaman and Shelley devotee. · Holograph marginalia in his copy of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Moxon, 1870) : ca. 1870 : (S'ANA 0761) : penciled marginalia in two volumes given to Silsbee by Claire Clairmont, with her inscription on the verso of the frontispiece of volume 1; Silsbee's notes marked with paper slips. Shelved as *Pforz BT (Clairmont, C.) 01. less

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