Found 29 collections related to Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

Samuel Rogers, English poet. The Samuel Rogers manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: holograph fair copy poetical extracts (from "Jacqueline," "Human Life" and "The Voyage of Columbus"); a holograph testimonial, "Sacred to the Memory of xxxxxx"; and a holograph fair copy of his poem on Earl Grey, "Written in July, 1834." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1820 and 1850. Correspondents include: Lord Byron, poet; Mary Shelley, novelist; Robert Southey, poet; William Wordsworth, poet; and over seventy others. less

Red half morocco album with gilt spine titling ("MSS. / BOWRING / CORRESPONDENCE / 1822-1854"), containing 59 manuscript letters addressed to John Bowring, the English politician, diplomat and writer. Includes letters to Bowring in his capacities as political editor of Jeremy Bentham's radical Westminster Review; as comissioner to investigate Britain's international commercial relations; as consul at Canton; and as governor of Hong Kong. Correspondents include: Maria Edgeworth, novelist and educationist; Richard Cobden, manufacturer and politician; Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist; and over fifty others. Also included are two letters and a list of books in Bowring's hand; an 1808 letter from the Duke of Wellington to Lt. John Paul of the 33rd Regiment; and an engraving of an English Water Spaniel, by J. Scott, Jun., after C. Tourne. less

Washington Irving, American author, essayist, biographer and historian. · Holograph biography, History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus : [circa 1828] : (MISC 0813) : fifty-two holograph pages within five folio volumes; the rest of the manuscript in divers hands of various copyists. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. less

Rosalind ("Dina") Hunt, née Williams, daugher of Jane and Edward Ellerker Williams, friends of the Shelleys. She married Henry Sylvan Leigh Hunt, the son of Leigh Hunt, and with him had six children. · Pen drawing with ink wash, "Shelley's Tomb, Rome" : [no date] : (H'ANA 0026) : 32 x 20.5 cm; mounted. Filed with SC oversized manuscripts. 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

Abraham Hayward, English essayist and translator. His many friendships with significant figures in the literary and political circles of Victorian London resulted in this collection of correspondence. The Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files are chiefly made up of letters addressed to Abraham Hayward by various English writers, politicians and society figures between 1831 and 1884. Among the correspondents represented are: Lord Brougham, lord chancellor; John Wilson Croker, politician and writer; Isaac D'Israeli, writer; W. E. Gladstone, prime minister and author; Letitia Elizabeth Landon, poet; Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer and politician; Lady Sydney (Owenson) Morgan, novelist and hostess; Count D'Orsay, man of fashion; Samuel Rogers, poet; and William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist. A few items in the Files are letters addressed to recipients other than Hayward, some apparently collected by him as autographs. less

Edward Bulwer Lytton, first Baron Lytton, writer and politician. · To Eliza Benzon, wife of Ernst Benzon, German-born business man and art collector : 1 autograph letter signed "E B Lytton" : 11 Jan 1865 : (MISC 1737) : from 2 Pulteney [?], Bath : begins, "I am very glad to hear you are returned to town ...". less

Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer. The Thomas Moore manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection includes writings and correspondence. The writings consist of poems and music, including holograph alterations to his printed sheet music, "Thou has sent me a flowery band" (London: Clementi Co., ca. 1818). The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1828-1832 and discusses personal and professional matters, including his works on Lord Byron. Correspondents include: Messrs. Galignani, publishers; James Power, music publisher; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author; and over fifty others. less

Jane Shelley [other married name St. John], née Gibson, Lady Shelley; she was the wife of Sir Percy Florence Shelley, son of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the novelist. · Holograph corrections, alterations and notes in Pforzheimer copy 2 of Hogg's Life of Shelley : [ca. 1858?] : (S'ANA 0894) : volume II only, with Lady Shelley's ownership signature on the title page, and Sir Percy's bookplate on the front paste-down; with manuscript insertions or corrections on pages 51, 53, 55-67, 77-81, 90-95, 100-104, 122-129, 134-141, 145-151, 175, 207, 211; and various lines and markings on pages 7, 8, 18,19, 165, 166, 211, 389, 500 and 508. Shelved as *Pforz BT (Shelley, J.) 01. less

Sir Percy Florence Shelley, third Baronet, son of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the novelist. The Percy Florence Shelley manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include two holograph poems, "Giovanni at Putney" and "Song of Venus to the Ground Shark." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1862 and 1886. Correspondents include: Claire Clairmont, of the Shelley circle (his mother's step-sister); Leigh Hunt, poet, journalist and critic; Sir Timothy Shelley, second baronet (his grandfather); T. J. Wise, book collector and forger; and over a dozen others. less

Mary Diana Dods, pseudonym David Lyndsay, British writer. For a time she lived among Paris's elite Anglo-French society as a man, taking the name Walter Sholto Douglas. As Douglas, Dods had a wife and child, and her close friend, writer Mary Shelley, helped her conceal the truth behind her gender identity. To Wm. Spooner, care of Mssrs. Hurst & Robinson, publishers : 1 autograph letter signed "D. Lyndsay" : 26 Jun 1825 : (S'ANA 1019) : regarding corrections to proof sheets for an upcoming work ; includes, "I have amended the passage thus - 'Many who were most deserving' etc. and 'Shelley is not - Lord Byron is not' etc." The letter is framed and stored with other flat framed items. less

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an 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 is a synthetic collection that includes literary manuscripts and correspondence by Mary Shelley. The manuscripts include one holograph poem ("Stanzas") and one transcript of a poem by her husband, P. B. Shelley ("To the L[or]d C[hancello]r"). The correspondence dates from between 1822 and 1847. Correspondents include: Claire Clairmont, her stepsister; Leigh Hunt, the journalist and critic; John Howard Payne, the actor and writer; and a few others. Also held are copies of forty letters from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, in the in the hand of Clairmont's niece, Paola Clairmont. less

Elizabeth Georgiana Sanford, née Morgan, wife of Rev. John Sanford, rector of Nynehead, Somerset. · To Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Feb [1849] : (S'ANA 1071) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from C. Place : begins, "I have just heard of Lumley's return and I am sorry to say no Jenny [Lind]!" Enclosed with a 3 Mar 1849 letter from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont (MWS 0151); filed under "Mary Shelley." Sanford's letter is summarized in notes on the Mary Shelley letter in Bennett's Letters of Mary Shelley, v. 3, p. 361. less

Reverend John Sanford, rector of Nynehead, Somerset, and art collector. · To Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Jun 1845 : from Corsham Court, Wilt[shire] : begins, "I enclose a letter rec'd this morning from Lord Wm. Lennox stating the particulars of his negotiation with Lumley ..."; with an autograph postscript from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont. Enclosed with a [16 Jun 1845] letter from Mary Shelley to Clairmont (MWS 0159), and the originally enclosed letter from Lennox to Sanford, dated 14 Jun 1845 (S'ANA 1073). Filed under "Mary Shelley." Sanford's letter is summarized in notes on Mary Shelley letter in Bennett's Letters of Mary Shelley, v. 3, p. 187. less

Cornelia Turner, née de Boinville, wife of Thomas Turner, English lawyer and banker. In 1813 she befriended the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. · To Claire Clairmont, of the Shelley circle : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Oct 1852 : (S'ANA 0124) : 2 pages (double sheet) + envelope : from Rue de Clichy, Paris : begins, "I answer as you request by return of post your letter of the 2d instant which I have just received. I can clearly state that I was acquainted with you when we were both gilrs . . ."; later saying, "I had already heard with regret of the death of Mrs. Shelley . . . .". less

From 3 May to 13 September of 1997 the New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences building held an exhibition titled Visionary Daughters of Albion, which focused on the English writers Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Chiefly featuring materials from the Library's Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, the exhibition was mounted in the building's Edna Barnes Salomon Room. · Exhibition guest book signed by hundreds of guests in various languages (MISC 4134); within a black faux-leather Cachet brand hardbound journal. Shelved with bound manuscripts under "New York Public Library.". less

Jane, Lady Shelley, née Gibson, other married name St. John. She was the wife of Sir Percy Florence Shelley, son of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Though they had no children, Lady Shelley and Sir Percy raised Bessie Florence Gibson, called "Floss," as their own; she was possibly the daughter of Lady Shelley's brother. Florence Trevor [later married name Blake] was Sir Percy's cousin, the child of his father's sister Mary. Record of three yachting trips taken by Lady Shelley and Sir Percy Florence Shelley between 1852 and 1860, with 22 of Lady Shelley's original ink and watercolor sketches of landscape scenery. The first trip (24 July-14 August, 1852) is through the lochs of Scotland and includes sketches of the Mare Isles [i.e., Garvellachs] and the Isle of Scarba. While in Scotland the Shelleys are greeted by "all the St Johns," the family of Lady Shelley's late first husband; they also discover a dead body in a cottage at St. Augustus, go mushrooming near the ruins of Castle Urquhart, and spot whales. The "2nd Cruize of the Ginevra" (15 February-31 May, 1853) takes the Shelleys from England southward, past Guernsey, through the Bay of Biscay and down the Spanish and Portuguese coasts. They then sail through the Strait of Gibralter, onward through the Greek islands, and end up in Contantinople. Lady Shelley includes sketches of Gibralter, and the Spanish and African coasts opposite it; Valetta; the Sicilian coast; Girgenti, on road to the temples; Etna, from Cape Passaro; Syracuse; Scilla; Messina; Palermo; and Corfu. On "Our first Cruize in the Flirt" (3 October-6 December, 1860), the Shelleys make their way to Coruña, Spain where they spend a few days. Lady Shelley notes that a pressed flower, present in the volume, was "Gathered from Sir John Moore's tomb, given to [her] by little Floss." After enduring very bad weather, they anchor "two miles east of Vigo." At the end of the volume, reverso, are three poetical pieces in various other hands: "From the home of my childhood thus young am I driven," signed "J. T.," dated May 1, 1853; "Shadows on the Water," by Florence Trevor, 1848; and "Lines written at Boscombe," in the hand of Richard Garnett. One unidentified landscape sketch is laid in the album. less

Jane Williams, née Cleveland [later known as Jane Hogg], of the Shelley circle. · Two copied verses on the Taj Mahal : [no date] : (S'ANA 0579b) : 4 pages (single sheet) : [no place] : one verse sometimes attributed to Lady Nugent ("O thou! whose great imperial mind could raise"); the other appearing in various printed sources with textal variations ("No Eastern prince for wealth or empire famed"). On the same sheet are included two sets of numerical calculations, apparently for household expenses. less

The Leigh Hunt manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph draft of his poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; a holograph fragment of his preface to Shelley's Mask of Anarchy; and his address book circa the mid-1850s. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1817 and 1826 and discusses his experiences in Italy, including the death of Shelley; family matters; and publishing business. Correspondents include: the Irish poet William Allingham; the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham; the writer and painter William Hazlitt; the writers Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley; and over seventy others. less