W. Courthope Forman manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Forman, W. Courthope", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"W. Courthope Forman manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"ca. early 20th century", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"0/5", "certainty"=>"approximate"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· Typescript essay signed, \"Shelley's Two Wives\" : [no date] : (S'ANA 0188a.1) : 7 leaves with holograph emendations.</p><p>· Holograph note on Trelawny's view of Shelley's wives : [no date] : (S'ANA 0188a.2) : 1 p., with an excerpt from a 3 Apr 1870 letter from Trelawny to Claire Clairmont.</p><p>· Holograph note introducing two letters on Browning's thoughts of Shelley : [no date] : (S'ANA 0188b) : 1 p. ; along with two typecript copies of A. C. Swinburne letters to W. M. Rossetti, discussing \"what Robert Browning thought of Shelley's desertion of Harriet.\" The typecripts have a few manuscript emendations, likely in Forman's hand.</p><p>· Holograph account signed, \"Harriet Shelley's Last Letter\" : [no date] : (S'ANA 0188e) : 1 p. ; begins, \"The story of the re-appearance of Harriet's last letter is a rather curious one.\" Along with 2 letters from Forman's wife Elizabeth to Carl H. Pforzheimer (S'ANA 0188f.1-2), listing the contents of the packet of her husband's papers, representing the entirety of (S'ANA 0188). Two parts of the packet have been removed: a 1921 letter to W. C. Forman from J. C. Shelley-Rolls (S'ANA 0188c), now filed under Shelley-Rolls ; and 6 Shelley-related illustrations, now filed as visual materials.</p><p>· To Maurice Buxton Forman, literary editor, his nephew : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Aug 1927 : (S'ANA 0222) : laid into Pforzheimer copy 2 of W.C.F.'s article, \"Shelley's first Wife,\" removed from Cornhill Magazine of Jan 1922.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>William Courthope Forman, literary scholar. He was the youngest brother of bibliographer and forger Harry Buxton Forman.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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{"value"=>"W. Courthope Forman manuscript material : 5 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>"William Courthope Forman, literary scholar. He was the youngest brother of bibliographer and forger Harry Buxton Forman. &#xB7; Typescript essay signed, \"Shelley's Two Wives\" : [no date] : (S'ANA 0188a.1) : 7 leaves with holograph emendations.", "generated"=>true}

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