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Wing, Marianne, 1819?-1892
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz BND-MSS (Wing, M.)
74 manuscript pages (79 total leaves, some blank) : illustrated ; 18 cm
Marianne Wing was born about 1819 in Braintree, Essex, England, the daughter of William Wing. By 1851 she was living in Chelmsford with her husband, William Abbott, a retired farmer, and their two young children, Joseph William and Clara Maria....
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
38 manuscript pages (20 total leaves) : 32 cm
Sewn notebook with semi-stiff marbled covers, containing over fifty poems and extracts in a single, neat, unidentified hand. The first sixteen pieces are copied from Elizabeth Anne Le Noir's Village Anecdotes (1804). Most of the other pieces are,...
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Colling, Mary Maria
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Mary Maria Colling (b. 1804), English poet and domestic servant. While working as a lady's maid, Colling's talent for poetry was discovered by novelist Anna Eliza Bray, who helped her publish her Fables and other Pieces in Verse in 1831. Holograph...
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll MSS Shelley, M. W.
22 items
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...
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Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
6 items
Robert Bloomfield, English poet. · Holograph poem, "Lucy, a Song" : [ca. 1808] : (MISC 3755) : 1 page (single sheet) : begins, "Thy favorite Bird is soaring still, / My Lucy haste thee o'er the dale ..."; dated "1808" in the hand of Thomas Clio...
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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
171 items
Robert Browning, English Victorian poet and playwright. The Robert Browning manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of his writings and correspondence. The writings include one holograph verse play (Colombe's Birthday), some...
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Bowring, John, 1792-1872
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
7 items
Sir John Bowring, British politician, diplomat, and writer. · Holograph poem, "Buddhist Beatification" : no date : (MISC 4023.04b) : begins, "Abstraction from all cares, all thought, all love ..." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album....
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Bernal, Ralph, 1783-1854
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
2 items
Holograph poem signed, "To Lady Blessington" : 2 Jan 1849 : (BLES 1.067a) : 1 p.; in ink; begins, "When wintry winds in wild career, / Howl requiems for the bygone year ..." With the excised address panel from the letter cover. Mounted in v. 1 of...
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Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
7 items
Autograph verse signed : [before 18 Sep 1819] : (MISC 4023.01c) : begins, "Go seek the turf where North, where Virtue lies." With note on verso in another hand explaining that the lines are the "last verse of a poetical epistle from Mrs. Barbauld...
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Austin, Alfred, 1835-1913
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
5 items
Holograph poem, "Cor Cordium" [reflections at the tomb of Shelley] : Apr 1863 : (S'ANA 0002) : also published as: "At Shelley's Grave." A note at the foot of p. 1 tells of the "severely neglected" state in which he found Shelley's tomb.
Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
205 items
Amelia Opie, née Alderson, English novelist and poet. The Amelia Opie manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence, and artwork. The writings include: a holograph story, "The Brithday," and a number of...
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Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
15 items
Autograph poem, "The Nautilis" : (MISC 1980) : signed fair copy, addressed to "W. Morley for Jos. Cooper" ; begins, "The Nautilis, when Heaven is bright / Up-lifts its tiny sail ...".
Chambers, Henry, b. 1737 or 1738
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Henry Chambers, an 86 year old man from Holywell, Flintshire, "embittered by the reflection of better days," who had apparently received alms from Lord Byron and Augusta Leigh. To Augusta Leigh, half-sister of Lord Byron : 1 autograph letter...
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Crabbe, George, 1754-1832
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
13 items
George Crabbe, English poet, doctor, and minister. · Holograph manuscript, Tales of the Hall : (MISC 0724) : includes a dedication to the Duchess of Rutland, 1 p. (4to); holograph preface, eight leaves (4to), most written on one side; printed...
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Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Laurence Binyon, British poet and art historian. A popular poet in his lifetime, Binyon also enjoyed a long career at the British Museum and wrote seminal works of criticism on William Blake. Holograph poem, "Shelley's Pyre" : no date (S'ANA...
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Aikin, John, 1747-1822
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
8 items
Holograph verse, "An epigramatic [sic] verse on a political writer of the day" : 11 Apr [no year] : (MISC 4023) 01b : 4 lines referring to Burke and Cooper, signed on verso with letter fragment. Title provided in another hand. Mounted in the Mary...
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Burgen, John W
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
John W. Burgen, of London. Burgen composed a poem in tribute to Lord Byron and inscribed it in the visitor's album at Byron's tomb in the parish church at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire on October 1, 1832. In 1834 the contents of the album were...
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Aikin, Lucy, 1781-1864
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
5 items
Holograph poem, "Written in an alcove at Allerton" : no date : (MISC 4023) 02b : signature stitched on. Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album.
Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
5 items
Holograph poem, "The Felon," signed : [ca. 1800?] : (B'ANA 0641) : 1 p.; begins, "Oh! mark his wan and hollow cheeks! & mark his eye-balls glare! / & mark his teeth in anguish clenched, the anguish of despair!" Nearly a fair copy, save two minor...
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Clare, John, 1793-1864
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
7 items
Bound folio volume, 188 p. : ca. 1820-1830 : (MISC 0196) : consisting of nearly 200 poems by Clare. Shelved under "Clare" with bound manuscript volumes.
Adolphus, John Leycester, 1795-1862
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
2 items
Transcript Byron's poem "Condolatory Address to Sarah, Countess of Jersey, on the Prince Regent's Returning her Picture to Mrs. Lee" : [after 1837] : (B'ANA 0197) : 3 p.; with Adolphus's critical commentary of the poem. Bound into v. 4 of the...
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Ely, Joseph, of Bristol
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
9 items
As of the creation of this record, little biographical information could be found about Joseph Ely, amateur poet of Bristol. Manuscript materials by Joseph Ely are also held by the library at McMaster University in Ontario, the Jewish National and...
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Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
3 items
Holograph copybooks : ca. 1816-1821 : (MISC 3985) : 2 vols.; including fair copies of original poems, apparently drafted elsewhere. Vol. 1 has 116 pages, numbered in pencil and a penciled table of contents at the end; v. 2 is about one-third...
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Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797-1839
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
12 items
Autograph poem, "'Twas this - 'twas this" : [no date] : (MISC 2831c) : begins, "It was a recollection / Of a brighter time than this ..."; with another poem by Bayly, "I'll not believe it," on the verso, apparently in another hand.
Elliott, Ebenezer, 1781-1849
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
3 items
Poem, "Devil Byron" (copy) : [after 1846] : (B'ANA 0316) : 8 p. : copied in an unknown hand; with a preface; poem begins, "A strange man owned yon Abbey once, / Men called him 'Devil Byron'...".
Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Eliza Cook, English poet and journalist. Cook began publishing her poetry in the 1830's, and in 1849 she started a weekly magazine directed at working class women, called Eliza Cook's Journal. Holograph poem signed : (MISC 1614) : 16 lines,...
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Nemo, active 1970-
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
In ink; two poems on each page of one single sheet : (S'ANA 0909) : first lines of each poem as follows: "Shelley! thy mind was as a noble bark"; "The loftiest poetic powers were thine"; "How wildly sweet the breatings of thy lyre"; "For thou...
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Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
340 items
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 more
Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
212 items
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...
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More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
13 items
Hannah More, English writer and philanthropist. · Holograph poem, "Time," signed : 17 Apr [1823] : (MISC 4041) : from Barley Wood : 1 1/2 pages (single leaf within album) : begins, "With sense our conduit is at strife / We squander Time, yet...
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