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{"value"=>"22142", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Pforz MS", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1815-1850", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1815/1850"}
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{"value"=>"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material"}
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- 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"=>"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the English novelist. Best known as the author of Frankenstein, she also wrote short-stories, poetry, biographies, journal articles, reviews, and edited the works of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. This guide lists and describes the manuscript materials held by the Pforzheimer Collection that were created by Mary Shelley, including original holograph writings and letters, amanuensis work in her hand, and her transcripts of work by others."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851", "type"=>"persname"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The first Mary Shelley manuscripts added to the Pforzheimer Collection were from the 1920 sale of the library of H. Buxton Forman, the Shelley bibliographer. Regular acquisitions over the next four decades, mostly through auction, led to an accumulation of over 300 items in Mary Shelley's hand by the time of Carl H. Pforzheimer's death in 1957.</p> <p>In the following years, under the auspices of the Pforzheimer Library, the Collection acquired over fifty more Mary Shelley manuscripts, including a number of letters to Byron's last mistress, Teresa Guiccioli, as well as Mary Shelley's annotated proof copy of the second edition of P. B. Shelley's Poetical Works. Since the Collection's move to The New York Public Library in 1986, over thirty Mary Shelley manuscripts have been accessioned.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, and transcripts. The writings include drafts of poems (\"The Choice\" and \"To the Dead\") and several short stories (\"The Sisters of Albano\", \"The Dream\", \"Transformation\", and others). The bulk of the correspondence dates from between 1822-1849. Correspondents include Claire Clairmont, her stepsister; Leigh Hunt, the journalist and critic; Lord Byron's last mistress, the Countess Teresa Guiccioli; Edward Moxon, the publisher and poet; and over seventy-five others. The transcripts are chiefly comprised of her handwritten copies of letters originally by her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.</p> <p> Manuscripts published in Betty T. Bennett's Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; in supplements to Bennett from The Keats-Shelley Journal; in Frederick L. Jones's Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley; or in Shelley and his Circle are noted with reference.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material is arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/22142#c1335361'>Series I. Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/22142#c1335375'>Series II. Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/22142#c1335851'>Series III. Amanuensis work</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/22142#c1335856'>Series IV. Transcripts in Mary Shelley's hand</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>In addition to manuscripts in Mary Shelley's hand, the Pforzheimer Collection holds a significant amount of manuscript materials relating to her. Among the Collection's manuscript correspondence addressed to her are letters by such figures as the Irish songwriter Thomas Moore; the American writer Washington Irving; and her father, the English writer William Godwin. Also held is an anonymous Italian translation, ca. 1840, of her short story, \"The Dream\" (S'ANA 1049).</p> <p>Various early editions of nearly all of Mary Shelley's published works are available, including three first edition copies of Frankenstein. A secondary collection, tracing the cultural trajectory of Frankenstein, includes later 19th century and 20th century editions of the book, as well as comic book and illustrated adaptations, video recordings, and other memorabilia. A growing number of Mary Shelley-related prints and other visual material are also available, including an original scratchboard portrait by Mark Summers, and oil portraits of William Shelley (by Amelia Curran) and Mary Wollstonecraft (by John Keenan after John Opie).</p> <p>Additional Mary Shelley manuscripts can be found in the Library's Berg Collection and Manuscripts and Archives Division.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by Charles Cuykendall Carter and Clare Olivia Needham.</p>"}
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1815
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1815
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1850
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1815
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1850
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426 items
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{"value"=>"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}