Edward Augustus Silsbee manuscript material

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{"value"=>"23692", "type"=>"local_mss"}

origination

{"value"=>"Silsbee, Edward Augustus, 1826-1900", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Edward Augustus Silsbee manuscript material"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1870-1879", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1870/1879", "certainty"=>"approximate"}

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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 items"}], "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>· Holograph marginalia in his copy of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Moxon, 1870) : ca. 1870 : (S'ANA 0761) : penciled marginalia in two volumes given to Silsbee by Claire Clairmont, with her inscription on the verso of the frontispiece of volume 1; Silsbee's notes marked with paper slips. Shelved as *Pforz BT (Clairmont, C.) 01.</p><p>· To Charles Fairfax Murray, English artist and art connoisseur : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Jul 1879 : (S'ANA 0247h) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Florence : begins, \"I have been in treaty for the Shelly [sic] letters with Miss Clairmont the elder & her niece, & have always understood that I should have the refusal of them if I would give more than any one else offered ...\"; printed in full with commentary in Shelley and his Circle, volume 2, page 911.</p>"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Captain Edward Augustus Silsbee, American merchant seaman and Shelley devotee.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_start

1870

keydate

1870

date_end

1879

date_inclusive_start

1870

date_inclusive_end

1879

extent_statement

2 items

prefercite

{"value"=>"Edward Augustus Silsbee manuscript material : 2 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Captain Edward Augustus Silsbee, American merchant seaman and Shelley devotee. &#xB7; Holograph marginalia in his copy of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Moxon, 1870) : ca. 1870 : (S'ANA 0761) : penciled marginalia in two volumes given to Silsbee by Claire Clairmont, with her inscription on the verso of the frontispiece of volume 1; Silsbee's notes marked with paper slips. Shelved as *Pforz BT (Clairmont, C.) 01.", "generated"=>true}

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