Thomas Love Peacock manuscript material

id
8624
origination
Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866
date statement
1792-1863
key date
1792
identifier (local_mss)
22385
org unit
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
call number
Pforz MS
b-number
b19895601
total components
242
total series
2
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Berg Layout
Extended MARC Fields
true
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-08-03 17:34:47 UTC
updated
2026-06-26 18:03:45 UTC
status note
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unitid
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unitdate
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unittitle
{"value"=>"Thomas Love Peacock manuscript material"}
physdesc
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repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle</span>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"The Thomas Love Peacock manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. Among the writings are included: holograph working and fair copies of his collection of poetry titled, \"Paper Money Lyrics\"; a holograph epitaph for his daughter, Mary Ellen Meredith; and a collection of holograph recipes. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1818 and 1847. Correspondents include: John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, politician; Thomas Jefferson Hogg, barrister and friend of Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer; and over a dozen others."}
langmaterial
{"value"=>"English"}
origination
{"value"=>"Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"aut"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), English satirical novelist and poet.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>This guide lists and describes the manuscript materials held by the Pforzheimer Collection that were created by Thomas Love Peacock. These materials have been acquired throughout the history of the Collection, and are kept on-site at the New York Public Library.</p> <p>The first Peacock manuscripts added to the Collection were letters: the letter to Claire Clairmont, acquired in 1920 through an Anderson Galleries auction, and the letter to Timothy Shelley, bought from Rosenbach and Company in 1926. Only a few additional Peacock manuscripts were accessioned until the 1948 acquisition of the Hogg Family Correspondence, which contained the letters from Peacock to Thomas Jefferson Hogg. A significant purchase of Peacock literary manuscripts came in 1949, with the acquisition of the papers belonging to Mrs. K. Hall-Thorpe, Peacock's great-granddaughter. By the 1957 death of Carl Pforzheimer I, the Collection held over sixty manuscripts in Peacock's hand.</p> <p>Under the auspices of the Pforzheimer Foundation, the Collection more than doubled its holdings in Peacock manuscripts, most notably with the 1980 purchase of over fifty manuscripts from the Arthur Houghton sale at Christie's. Since the Collection's move to The New York Public Library in 1986, only three manuscripts in Peacock's hand have been acquired.</p>"}
arrangement
{"value"=>"<p>This guide considered the manuscripts of Thomas Love Peacock in the Pforzheimer Collection in two series: Series I, Writings and Series II, Correspondence.</p> <p>Series, I, Writings: These manuscripts are listed chronologically; items published in the 1924 Halliford Edition of Peacock's works, or treated in Shelley and his Circle, are noted with reference.</p> <p>Series II, Correspondence: These manuscripts are listed alphabetically by recipient; Letters published in Nicholas Joukovsky's Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, or treated in Shelley and his Circle, are noted with reference.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Clare Needham, Charles Cuykendall Carter, and Timothy Gress, 2022.</p>"}
relatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p>In addition to manuscripts by Thomas Love Peacock, the Pforzheimer Collection holds a number of manuscripts relating to him. Consisting mainly of autograph letters addressed to him, these manuscripts carry Peacockana (P'ANA) call numbers, and are cataloged by author.</p> <p>Also held are first edition copies of most of Peacock's published works; an autotype reproduction of his photograph portrait by Maull & Co.; and a gold locket with a rosebud preserved behind glass, the rosebud being one Byron is said to have sent Peacock, through Shelley, as a goodwill gesture following the publication of <span class=\"title\">Nightmare Abbey</span>, which satirized both Byron and Shelley.</p> <p>Additional Thomas Love Peacock manuscript material can be found in The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</p>"}
note
{"type"=>"reference", "value"=>"Many of the manuscripts listed in this guide have been included in Shelley and his Circle, a multi-volume publication that presents selected manuscripts from the Pforzheimer Collection. Shelley and his Circle provides extensive descriptions of the manuscripts, along with commentary, textual analysis, and some facsimile reproductions. Items published in Shelley and his Circle, the 1924 Halliford Edition of Peacock's works, or Nicholas Joukovsky's Letters of Thomas Love Peacock are noted with reference."}
date_start
1792
keydate
1792
date_end
1863
date_inclusive_start
1792
date_inclusive_end
1863
extent_statement
212 items
prefercite
{"value"=>"Thomas Love Peacock manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Thomas Love Peacock manuscript material is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/22385#c1655601'>Series I. Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/cps/22385#c1655761'>Series II. Correspondence</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}

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