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- Creator
- Shelley, Percy Florence, Sir, 1819-1889
- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 46 items
- Preferred Citation
- Percy Florence Shelley manuscript material : 46 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
- Location
- Pforz MS
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
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.
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- Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879 (recipient)
- Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898 (recipient)
- Fitzgerald, Percy, 1834-1925 (recipient)
- French, Charlotte Emma Bennet, 1814- (recipient)
- Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910 (recipient)
- Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 (recipient)
- Hunt, Thornton Leigh, 1810-1873 (recipient)
- Kent, Charles, 1823-1902 (recipient)
- Murray, Alma, 1854-1945 (recipient)
- Oxley, J. S (recipient)
- Payne, J. Bertrand (James Bertrand), 1833-1898 (recipient)
- Peile, George (recipient)
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
- Shelley, Percy Florence, Sir, 1819-1889
- Shelley, Timothy, Sir, 1753-1844 (recipient)
- Stedman, William (recipient)
- Tegg, William, 1816-1895 (recipient)
- West, H. G (recipient)
- Williams, W. S. (William Smith), 1800-1875 (recipient)
- Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937 (recipient)
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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