- unitid
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{"value"=>"23795", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Pforz MS", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1817-1879", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1817/1879"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Edward John Trelawny manuscript material"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"129 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"=>"Edward John Trelawny, English writer and adventurer. His friendships with and writings about the Romantic poets Byron and Shelley brought him considerable fame following their deaths, and well into the Victorian era. This guide lists and describes the manuscript materials held by the Pforzheimer Collection that were created by Edward John Trelawny, including original holograph writings and letters."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881", "type"=>"persname"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The first E. J. Trelawny manuscripts added to the Collection were acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer in September of 1922 from rare book and manuscript dealers: an 1832 letter to Mary Shelley, which she had enclosed in a letter to the publisher Charles Ollier; and a 7 February 1822 letter to Captain Roberts, on specifications for Byron's boat. A 1927 auction provided the opportunity for Pforzheimer to purchase a cache of thirteen Trelawny letters to the artist Seymour Kirkup. By Pforzheimer's death in 1957, he had accessioned over seventy Trelawny manuscripts. Under the auspices of the Pforzheimer Library, the Collection acquired a number of Trelawny manuscripts, including a number of letters to the singer Adelaide Kemble, and Trelawny's life insurance policy. Since the Collection's 1986 move to the New York Public Library, five Trelawny manuscripts have been acquired.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Edward John Trelawny manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a holograph account of the death and cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley; and a holograph inventory of Lord Byron's papers, made shortly after his death. Correspondents include Claire Clairmont, of the Shelley circle; Leigh Hunt, poet, journalist and critic; Adelaide Kemble, singer and author; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist; and over twenty others.</p> <p>Items treated in <span class=\"title\">Shelley and his Circle</span> or included in H. B. Forman's <span class=\"title\">Letters of Edward John Trelawny</span> (1910) are noted with reference.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Edward John Trelawny manuscript material is arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/23795#c1350197'>Series I. Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/23795#c1350201'>Series II. Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/23795#c1350349'>Series III. Documents</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>In addition to manuscripts by E. J. Trelawny, the Pforzheimer Collection holds a number of letters addressed to him, and a small collection of \"Trelawniana\": manuscripts about him or in some way relating to him. Also held are first and later editions of Trelawny's <span class=\"title\">Adventures of a Younger Son</span> and <span class=\"title\">Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron</span> (as well as the re-written version, <span class=\"title\">Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author</span>). A few portraits of Trelawny are held, including an original chalk sketch (circa 1830's) by Seymour Kirkup; a lithograph by J. A. Vinter after the same sketch; and an engraving of \"Trelawny as an Octogenarian,\" after the 1874 painting, \"The North West Passage,\" by Sir John Everett Millais.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Charles Cuykendall Carter.</p>"}
- date_start
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1817
- keydate
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1817
- date_end
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1879
- date_inclusive_start
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1817
- date_inclusive_end
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1879
- extent_statement
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129 items
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Edward John Trelawny manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}