- unitid
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{"value"=>"19617", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Pforz MS", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b18060965", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1805-1835", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1805/1835"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Felicia Hemans manuscript material"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"63 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"=>"Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) was a British poet. The collection consists primarily of writings dating between 1805 and 1835 and correspondence dating between 1809 and 1834."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Felicia Dorothea Hemans, née Browne, British poet. Regarded as the leading female poet of her day, Hemans was popular during her lifetime in both England and the United States. Her work was reprinted throughout the nineteenth and into the early-twentieth century.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>This guide lists and describes the manuscript materials held by the Pforzheimer Collection that were created by Felicia Hemans. These items have been acquired throughout the history of the Collection and are kept at the New York Public Library. The first Felicia Hemans manuscripts added to the Collection were a small batch of letters acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957) at the sale of English collector Alfred Morrison's library in 1919. In 1936, Pforzheimer purchased the collection of letters to Henry Hart Milman relating to the production of Hemans's <em>Vespers of Palermo</em> from the bookseller G. H. Last.</p> <p>Most of the Collection's Hemans manuscripts were purchased in the late 1960's under the auspices of the Pforzheimer Foundation, primarily through individual dealers. Since the Pforzheimer Collection's 1986 move to the New York Public Library, about a dozen Hemans manuscripts have been accessioned. Because the Pforzheimer Collection collects actively, its holdings in Felicia Hemans manuscript material may grow as items become available for purchase.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Felicia Hemans manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection is comprised of writings and correspondence. Among the writings are a number of holograph poems, dramatic fragments, a two-volume commonplace book, and presentation inscriptions. The bulk of the thirty-nine letters are dated between 1821 and 1830 and discuss publishing matters, family and social arrangements, and the production of Hemans's play, <em>Vespers of Palermo</em>. Correspondents include: the writer Maria Jane Jewsbury, the historian Henry Hart Milman, the publisher John Murray, the editor Thomas Roscoe, and over twenty others.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Felicia Hemans manuscript material is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/19617#c1768422'>Series I. Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/19617#c1768449'>Series II. Correspondence</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>This guide considers the manuscript material in two series: Series I, Writings; and Series II, Correspondence.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Finding aid created by <span class=\"name\">Charles Cuykendall Carter</span> in May <span class=\"date\">2014</span>. Revised and imported into ArchivesSpace by <span class=\"name\">Timothy Gress</span> in November <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>In addition to manuscripts by Felicia Hemans, the Pforzheimer Collection holds a nearly comprehensive collection of first and early printed editions of her published work. A small handful of early printed secondary sources relating to Hemans are also held, including Henry Fothergill Chorley's two-volume <em>Memorials of Mrs. Hemans</em> (1836).</p> <p>Hemans-related visual materials held by the Collection include a portrait of Hemans engraved by William Holl after William Edward West. Also held is an anonymous contemporary pencil and ink sketch of the gravestone of Hemans's brother, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Browne.</p> <p>Additional Felicia Hemans manuscript material can be found in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature and in the Manuscripts and Archives Division.</p>"}
- date_start
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1805
- keydate
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1805
- date_end
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1835
- date_inclusive_start
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1805
- date_inclusive_end
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1835
- extent_statement
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63 items
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Felicia Hemans manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}