Found 22 collections related to Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

Vernon Horace Rendall, British editor and writer. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Dec 1908 : (S'ANA 0219c) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Athenæum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. (printed stationery) : marked "Private"; begins, "I know all about the Shelley letter which was the subject of a recent article in the Athenaeum -- among other things that you are the happy possessor of it. It is obvious that it is not now regarded as a forgery..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 Dec 1908 : (S'ANA 0219d) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Athenæum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. (printed stationery) : begins, "Many thanks for your letter. I fear I am held up with much business till after Xmas ...". less

Ernest Percival Rhys, English writer and literary editor. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Feb 1906 : (S'ANA 0220g) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Derwen, Hermitage Lane, W. Hampstead : begins, "I wonder if you can allow Messrs. Dent to reprint the MS. part of the "Daemon of the World" in a forthcoming volume of Shelley's poems ...". 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

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

William Michael Rossetti, English art critic and literary editor. The William Michael Rossetti manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: holograph drafts and notes for his 1870 edition of Shelley's poetical works, and drafts and proof emendations for the 1901 reprint of the Pre-Raphaelite journal, The Germ. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1883 and 1911. Correspondents include: H. B. Forman, bibliographer and forger; Elliot Stock, publisher of the reprint of The Germ; E. J. Trelawny, writer and adventurer; T. J. Wise, book collector and forger; and over a dozen others. less

Frederick Gard Fleay, Shakespeare scholar. · Holograph essay signed, "On the received text of Shelley's poems" : 12 Sep 1894 : (S'ANA 0014) : 52 p., in brown cloth folding case. At the end is a note written by Fleay to the printer. Shelved as *Pforz BT (Shelley, P. B.) 03. less

Maurice Buxton Forman, English postal worker and literary editor. He was the son of the bibliographer and forger H. Buxton Forman, and has been posthumously implicated as a party to his father's literary counterfeit schemes. Forman produced several works on George Meredith, and followed his father as the editor of the letters of Keats. · To Neville Rogers, Shelley scholar : 5 autograph letters signed : 1948-1953 : (S'ANA 0912.37--41) : three of five written on printed South African "air letter" sheets ; discussing various literary subjects, including Keats and Shelley. less

Richard Garnett, English librarian and author; spent his career at the British Museum, becoming Keeper of Printed Books in 1890. Garnett wrote and edited several works on Shelley, including Relics of Shelley (1862). · Corrections on printed proofs, "Shelley, Harriet Shelley, and Mr. T. L. Peacock" : [post-6 Mar 1862] : (S'ANA 0693) : substantial manuscript emendations on printer's proofs for his contribution to Relics of Shelley. The published text, with a few minor exceptions, follows the revisions. less

Angela Mond, née Goetze, British patron of the arts. After her husband, Emile Schweich, went into business with his uncle, Ludwig Mond, both Angela and Emil adopted the surname "Mond.". · To Wilfrid Meynell, publisher, editor and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 25 July 1918 : (S'ANA 0265) : from Grey Friars, Storrington, Sussex (printed stationery); with mourning border; begins, "I have just received the enclosed prints. I hope they are what you meant ..."; with the stamped, postmarked envelope, and second envelope enclosing eight photographic prints of Meynell's Shelley bust, which was later presented to Eton College. less

Arthur Somerset, English first class cricketer. · To Wilfrid Meynell, publisher, editor and writer : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Jun 1926 : (S'ANA 0266) : 3 ¹/₂ pages (2 single sheets) : from Castle Gorning, Worthing (embossed stationery) : begins, "It always does me good to meet you talk hear you talk. I think your bust of Shelley extraordinarily interesting ..."; also saying, "I have lock of Shelley's hair. Curly silky." Includes a copy of James Russell Lowell's "Aladdin" in Somerset's hand. Along with the stamped, postmarked envelope. less

Newman Ivey White, American professor of English. · To Clinton N. Rutan of New Jersey : 7 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Jul 1941 : (S'ANA 0947.c1) : 1 ¹/₃ pages (double sheet) + envelope : from Oak Grove Hotel, 230 Oak Grove Street, Minneapolis, Minn. (printed stationery) : begins, "Your interesting letter was forwarded from Duke here and reaches me in the midst of packing up . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Aug 1941 : (S'ANA 0947.c2) : ¹/₂ page (single sheet) + envelope : from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (printed stationery) : begins, "I am sending you in two separate packages some autographed off-prints of my Shelley articles . . . ." -- 1 typescript letter signed : 29 Sep 1941 : (S'ANA 0947.c3) : 1 page (single sheet) + envelope : from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (printed stationery) : begins, "We are delighted that you like our little Shelley mementoes . . . ." -- 1 typescript letter signed : 24 Feb 1943 : (S'ANA 0947.c4) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (2 single sheets) + envelope : from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (printed stationery) : begins, "Thank you very much for the Shelley portrait." -- 1 typescript letter signed : 31 Jul 1943 : (S'ANA 0947.c5) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (2 single sheets) + envelope : from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (printed stationery) : begins, "I am sorry I have had to wait so long to answer your letter of June first . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Mar 1947 : (S'ANA 0947.c6) : 2 pages (2 single sheets) + envelope : from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (printed stationery) : begins, "Hunting through some back correspondence the other day, I came across a letter of yours written in 1943 from a camp in S.C., enclosing a copy (of an original in Fanny Godwin's hand) of a letter from Godwin to Shelley." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Nov 1948 : (S'ANA 0947.c7) : 1 page (single sheet) + envelope : from 24 Berkeley St., Cambridge 38 Mass. : begins, "I don't think I have written to you or heard from you since the War . . . .". 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

To Major W. Van R. Whitall, American philanthropist : 2 autograph letters signed ; 23 Feb - 24 Aug 1925, in regard to a (forged) letter from Shelley to Godwin (S'ANA 0227) which refers to an Irish saint. Also discusses James Stephens's move to America. Also: one note in unknown hand on Irish saints. The "Shelley" letter and extensive commentary are printed in Shelley and His Circle, vol. V, p. 6-15. less

Andrew Cecil Bradley, English literary scholar. In 1901 he was elected as Oxford Professor of Poetry. To Charles Dealtry Locock, writer and editor : 9 autograph letters signed : ca. 1904 - 1906 (S'ANA 0956--0964), relating to Shelley and Locock's work on Shelley. Two envelopes from Bradley to Locock (one in the hand of another) were assigned the call number (S'ANA 0983). less

William Clement Henry Esdaile, great-grandson of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley's manuscript notebook of juvenilia, dubbed "The Esdaile Notebook," was in the possession of Esdaile's family until 1962, when it was sold by his sister, Lettice A. Worrall. The notebook is now held by the Pforzheimer Collection. To Kenneth Neill Cameron, Shelley scholar : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Dec 1948 : (S'ANA 0013) : including, "I am afraid the late professor N. I. White made a mistake in thinking I had Shelley's manuscripts in my possession ... I have hardly anything of his except one small book ... ". less

Arthur Severn, English watercolor painter; he was the son of Joseph Severn, the painter and friend of John Keats. · To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Apr 1912 : (S'ANA 0709) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from 9 Warwick Square, S. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "There is an oil picture by my Father -- of Shelley sitting on the top of the Palace of the Caesars or the Baths of Caracalla ...". less

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and polemicist. · To Maud Russell Lorraine ("Emarel") Freshel, designer and vegetarian activist : 1 autograph presentation inscription signed : [1928, before June] : (S'ANA 1101) : in ink, on the half-title of a first edition copy of Shaw's Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism; reads in full, "to Emeral [sic] / from G.B.S." Shelved as *Pforz BT (Shaw, B.) 01. less

Emma Virginia Unger, American bibliographer. · Miscellaneous notes on Shelley-related illustrations : [after 1 Jun 1945] : (S'ANA 1044) : 1 page (single sheet) : [from New York?] : on the verso of an opened envelope to Unger from Freedom House; begins, "(3) PBS (waist to left, holding feather-pen, 15 x 10 ¹/₂ (plate 8 x 6; pict 4 x 3 . . . .". less