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Creator
Call, Laetitia Trelawny, 1848-1938
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
27 items
Preferred Citation
Laetitia Trelawny Call manuscript material : 27 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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To Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti, painter and biographer : 7 autograph letters signed : 20 Jun 1878 -- 8 Jun 1891: (T'ANA 0017-0018) (T'ANA 0020-0021) (T'ANA 0023-0024) (T'ANA 0027) : on various subjects relating to her father, his friends, and Mr. Rossetti's work relating to them, including a good deal of friendly discussion.

Biographical/historical information

Laetitia Trelawny Call, daughter of Shelley's friend Edward John Trelawny. In 1875 she was involved in a scandalous divorce suit, precipitated by her half-brother's falling in love with her (St. Clair, Trelawny, 192, 194). She was married to Colonel Charles Call, and died on January 20th, 1938, in the south of France.

Scope and arrangement

To Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti, painter and biographer : 7 autograph letters signed : 20 Jun 1878 -- 8 Jun 1891: (T'ANA 0017-0018) (T'ANA 0020-0021) (T'ANA 0023-0024) (T'ANA 0027) : on various subjects relating to her father, his friends, and Mr. Rossetti's work relating to them, including a good deal of friendly discussion.|||To William Michael Rossetti, art critic and literary editor : 15 autograph letters signed and 5 post cards signed : 2 Dec 1880 -- 7 Jun 1909 : (T'ANA 0019) (T'ANA 0022) (T'ANA 0025-0026) (T'ANA 0028-0038e) (T'ANA 0045) : on various topics, mostly relating to scholarship on Shelley and his circle, including her notes after having proofread some of Rossetti's writing on her father. One post card (T'ANA 0038c) bears a photographic image of "Felix & L. Call.".

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

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