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Creator
Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
8 items
Preferred Citation
Edmund Blunden manuscript material : 8 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
Repository
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Typescript poem, "Shelley's Last Days" : [ca. 1945] : (S'ANA 0936) : three pages with pencil revisions.

Biographical/historical information

Edmund Blunden, English poet and university teacher. His highly acclaimed biography of Shelley was published in 1946.

Scope and arrangement

Typescript poem, "Shelley's Last Days" : [ca. 1945] : (S'ANA 0936) : three pages with pencil revisions.|||Holograph essay, "On a Portrait by Mrs. Leigh Hunt" : [ca. 1955] : (H'ANA 0056), seven pages. The essay was published in The Keats-Shelley Memorial Bulletin, 1955.|||Transcription of Shelley lines : (S'ANA 1064) : from "Bixby-Huntington" Shelley notebooks, with note by Blunden; begins, "Ye devils black and spectres white ...".|||To Professor William Archer of The Univerity of Tennessee : 4 autograph letters signed : 28 Jan - 26 Mar 1947 : (S'ANA 0231) : on various topics of Romantic literary scholarship. The final letter is on a postcard.|||To Carl H. Pforzheimer, investment banker, philanthropist and collector : 1 autograph letter : 7 Dec 1953 : (S'ANA 0129) : on a recent day "in remembrance of Shelley" and other topics related to Blunden's Shelley scholarship.

Using the collection

Location

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

Access to materials

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