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- Creator
- Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 332 items
- Preferred Citation
- Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 332 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request access to this collection.
Leigh Hunt, English poet, journalist, and literary critic. 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.
Key terms
Names
- Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
- Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 (Recipient)
- Allingham, William, 1824-1889 (Recipient)
- Balmanno, Robert, 1780-1861 (Recipient)
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 (Recipient)
- Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871 (Recipient)
- Booth, John (Bookseller) (Recipient)
- Brown, Charles Armitage, 1786-1842 (Recipient)
- Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (Recipient)
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 (Recipient)
- Cameron, John (Recipient)
- Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 1801-1866 (Recipient)
- Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (Recipient)
- Carpenter, William, 1797-1874 (Recipient)
- Cheltnam, Jacintha Shelley Leigh Hunt, 1828-1914 (Recipient)
- Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877 (Recipient)
- Colburn, Henry, -1855 (Recipient)
- Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874 (Recipient)
- Dalby, John Watson b. 1799 (Recipient)
- Forster, John, 1812-1876 (Recipient)
- Fox, Florance, b. 1821 (Recipient)
- Fox, W. J. (William Johnson), 1786-1864 (Recipient)
- Gilpin, Charles, 1815-1874 (Recipient)
- Godwin, William, 1756-1836 (Recipient)
- Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800-1881 (Recipient)
- Hayward, A. (Abraham), 1801-1884 (Recipient)
- Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 (Recipient)
- Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862 (Recipient)
- Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840 (Recipient)
- Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884 (Recipient)
- Hunt, Henry Sylvan Leigh, b. 1819 (Recipient)
- Hunt, John, 1775-1848 (Recipient)
- Hunt, Julia Trelawney Leigh, b. 1825 (Recipient)
- Hunt, Marianne Kent, 1787-1857 (Recipient)
- Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley Leigh, 1817-1899 (Recipient)
- Hunt, Thornton Leigh, 1810-1873 (Recipient)
- Hunt, Vincent, 1823-1852 (Recipient)
- Hunter, Fanny (Recipient)
- Hunter, John, 1801-1869 (Recipient)
- Hunter, Rowland (Recipient)
- Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894 (Recipient)
- James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860 (Recipient)
- Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850 (Recipient)
- Kean, Ellen, 1805-1880 (Recipient)
- Kent, Charles, 1823-1902 (Recipient)
- Kent, Elizabeth, 1790-1861 (Recipient)
- Knighton, William, Sir, 1776-1836 (Recipient)
- Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864 (Recipient)
- Latimer, Isaac, 1813-1898 (Recipient)
- Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878 (Recipient)
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895 (Recipient)
- Macready, Catherine Frances Atkins, 1803 or 04-1852 (Recipient)
- Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873 (Recipient)
- Mathews, Mrs. (Anne Jackson), 1782?-1869 (Recipient)
- Moran, Benjamin, 1820-1886 (Recipient)
- Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858 (Recipient)
- Ollier, Charles, 1788-1859 (Recipient)
- Paton, J. Noël (Joseph Noël), Sir, 1821-1901 (Recipient)
- Philippart, John, Sir (Recipient)
- Powell, Thomas, 1809-1887 (Recipient)
- Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1794-1852 (Recipient)
- Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 (Recipient)
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Recipient)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Recipient)
- Shelley, Percy Florence, Sir, 1819-1889 (Recipient)
- Smith, H. Orrin (Recipient)
- Tait, William, 1793-1864 (Recipient)
- Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 1795-1854 (Recipient)
- Taylor, John, 1781-1864 (Recipient)
- Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881 (Recipient)
- Watts, Alaric Alfred, 1825-1901 (Recipient)
- Williams, Jane, 1798-1884 (Recipient)
- Button & Whitaker (Recipient)
Subjects
- Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Critics -- England -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Poets, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
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Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319