Found 6 collections related to Peck%2C Walter Edwin%2C 1891-1954

Walter Edwin Peck, American professor and literary scholar. The Walter Edwin Peck manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a typescript introduction to a proposed printing of Shelley's will, and a holograph essay, "Shelley and 'Constantia' (Claire Clairmont)." The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Carl H. Pforzheimer and dated between 1922 and 1931. Accompanying material includes a number of typescript letter copies from Pforzheimer to Peck, and documents from Houghton Mifflin Company relating to sales of Peck's biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. less

Walter Edwin Peck, American professor and literary scholar. The Walter Edwin Peck manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include a typescript introduction to a proposed printing of Shelley's will, and a holograph essay, "Shelley and 'Constantia' (Claire Clairmont)." The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Carl H. Pforzheimer and dated between 1922 and 1931. Accompanying material includes a number of typescript letter copies from Pforzheimer to Peck, and documents from Houghton Mifflin Company relating to sales of Peck's biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. less

Roger Ingpen, British literary editor and writer. His Shelley in England (1917) was among the most important early 20th century accounts of Shelley's life. · To Harry Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Oct 1913 : (S'ANA 0718) : from 28 Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park W. (printed stationery); begins, "I procured the Medwin letter with the object of printing it at some time or another, but I very willingly give you leave to make use of it ...". less

John Hall Wheelock, American poet and editor. · To Walter Edwin Peck, Shelley scholar : 1 typescript letter signed : 7 Oct 1946 : (S'ANA 0757) : 1 page (singel sheet) : from Charles Scribner's Sons, Publishers, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. (company letterhead) : begins, "We have been giving very careful attention to the manuscript of your 'Shelley and Constantia' . . . ." Filed with the mentioned manuscript (S'ANA 0756), under "Peck.". less

Originally housed in his Park Avenue apartment, the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library moved to a suite in midtown Manhattan after Pforzheimer's death in 1957. There, Kenneth Neill Cameron, leading Shelley scholar of the time, continued his work as editor of the multi-volume Shelley and his Circle publication, years later followed by Donald H. Reiman. Mihai Handrea, hired as librarian in 1970, became the first curator of The Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle (a portion of the much larger Pforzheimer Library) when it moved to the New York Public Library in 1986. 23 manuscript boxes of correspondence, proofs, and printed material comprising the Pforzheimer Library papers in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle. less

To Maurice Buxton Forman, literary editor : 1 typescript letter signed : 4 Apr 1927 : (H'ANA 0071) : from Amen House, Warwick-Square, London, E.C.4. (Oxford University Press letterhead) : regarding the holograph manuscript of Leigh Hunt's poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; begins, "We all read 'stricken'; does that agree with your decipherment?" Filed with Hunt's holograph (LH 0294). less