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- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 67 manuscript pages (15 double sheets, 13 single sheets)
- Preferred Citation
- Chancery papers relating to the children of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Harriet, née Westbrook, 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 an in-person research appointment.
Transcriptions of nine major documents in the Chancery suit for custody of Ianthe and Charles Shelley. 13 pages in the hand of H. Buxton Forman; the rest in the hand of a legal secretary or clerk, copied for Forman in the 1870's or 1880's and bearing his annotations.
Key terms
Names
- Alexander, William, Sir, 1754 or 1755-1842
- Beauchamp, Elizabeth, 1782-1854
- Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
- Esdaile, Ianthe, 1813-1876
- Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 (annotator)
- Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 (scribe)
- Horne, William, Sir, 1773-1860
- Shadwell, Lancelot, Sir, 1779-1850
- Shelley, Charles Bysshe, 1814-1826
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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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