- unitid
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{"value"=>"23463", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Pforz Ms", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b166509061", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1802-1839", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1802/1839"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Mary Jane Godwin manuscript material"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"17 items", "unit"=>"items"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Mary Jane Godwin manuscript material in the New York Public Library's Pforzheimer Collection consists of correspondence and related archival material. The bulk of the correspondence is from the 1830s. Correspondents include: Laman Blanchard, author and journalist; Aaron Burr, third Vice President of the United States; Mary Hays, novelist, and over half a dozen others. Related archival material includes a 1938 official copy of M. J. Godwin's death certificate, and copies in the hand of Claire Clairmont of what may be letters written by M. J. Godwin."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Godwin, Mary Jane, 1768-1841", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Mary Jane Godwin, formerly Clairmont, née de Vial, English translator and bookseller. She was the second wife of the philosopher and novelist William Godwin, and together they ran the M. J. Godwin and Co. Juvenile Library bookshop and imprint. Her daughter was Claire Clairmont, mother of Lord Byron's child, Allegra; her stepdaughter was Mary Shelley, author of <span class=\"title\">Frankenstein</span>.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Mary Jane Godwin manuscript material is arranged in two series:</p> <p>Series I: Correspondence Series II: Related archival material</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Finding aid compiled by Charles Cuykendall Carter. Last updated April <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
- note
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{"type"=>"reference", "value"=>"Some of the NYPL Pforzheimer Collection's Mary Jane Godwin manuscript material has been published, with extensive descriptions and commentaries, in the Shelley and his Circle limited series (Harvard University Press). Published items are noted in this finding aid with the SC reference number, and volume and page numbers."}
- date_start
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1802
- keydate
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1802
- date_end
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1839
- date_inclusive_start
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1802
- date_inclusive_end
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1839
- extent_statement
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17 items
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Mary Jane Godwin manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Mary Jane Godwin manuscript material is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/23463#c1733564'>Series I: Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/23463#c1733593'>Series II: Related archival material</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}