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Creator
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Shelley, P. B.
Physical description
93 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence, and financial documents.

Biographical/historical information

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a British poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence, and financial documents. The manuscripts include a holograph of an essay by Shelley and a transcription of a Shelley poem in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's hand. Also included are manuscript materials by Leigh Hunt and Humbert Wolf relating to Shelley. The financial documents include bank drafts, one of which is a forgery. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1809 to 1822, by the author to Claire Claremont, Edward Fergus Graham, Leigh Hunt, and others, as well as a copies of letters in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's hand to her from Shelley. Also included are letters relating to the author, dating from 1838 to 1908, exchanged between various correspondents including Richard Garnett, Herbert Jones, Thomas Holcroft, Lady Jane Shelley, Spencer Shelley, Charles Fairfax Murray, H. Buxton Forman, Paola Clairmont, Henry Roderick Newman, Susan Shelley, Rosamund Dent, and others. The correspondence also includes an inventory of letters and notes pertaining to the estate of Claire Claremont with certificate of their sale by Paola Clairmont to Henry Roderick. There is a letter to Shelley from Thomas Hookham, dated Dec. 13, 1816.

The Percy Bysshe Shelley collection of papers are arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials was formerly owned by W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. A number of letters were previously owned by T. Roderick Terry and contain his bookplate. The April 23, 1810 letter to Edward Fergus Graham contains Harry Bache Smith's bookplate.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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