Maurice Buxton Forman manuscript material

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origination

{"value"=>"Forman, Maurice Buxton", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"Maurice Buxton Forman manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1909-1953", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1909/1953"}

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relatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<p>Additional Maurice Buxton Forman manuscript material in the New York Public Library can be found in The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· 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.</p><p>· To Clinton N. Rutan of New Jersey : 2 autograph letters signed : 17-21 Oct 1940 : (S'ANA 0947h.1-2) : both with stamped envelopes ; on several matters of Shelley-related interest, primarily the suicide letter of Harriet Shelley. The later letter gives a British Museum call number for a Harriet Shelley letter, noting \"their MSS are not available until after the war.\" Rutan was apparently preparing to produce \"a life of Shelley in illustrations.\".</p><p>· To T. J. Wise, book collector and forger : 1 [autograph?] letter (copy) : 16 Mar 1909 : (S'ANA 0581) : upon discovering a pirated edition of Tennyson's \"Lover's Tale\" in his father's library which \"does not tally with any of the six editions\" Wise mentions in his Tennyson bibliography. Removed from the Pfozheimer Collection's copy of the bibliography.</p>"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>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.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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1909

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1909

date_end

1953

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1909

date_inclusive_end

1953

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8 items

prefercite

{"value"=>"Maurice Buxton Forman manuscript material : 8 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"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. &#xB7; 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.", "generated"=>true}

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