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Creator
Chaworth, Mary Ann, 1786-1832
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
4 items
Preferred Citation
Mary Ann Chaworth manuscript material : 4 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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Autograph penmanship exercises signed : [ca. 1791?] : (B'ANA 0690) : 1 sheet, apparantly from a copy book, in her juvenile hand; "Try to write well and quickly" repeated 15 times on recto; an exercise using the word "Emolument" on the verso. Mounted between pp. 32-33 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.

Biographical/historical information

Mary Ann Chaworth, distant relative of Lord Byron, and object of his adolescent affection. She married John Musters, of Colwick, in 1805. Chaworth is the subject of at least five of Byron's early poems, including "Hills of Annesley," and there are allusions to his love story in Childe Harold and in "The Dream" (1816).

Scope and arrangement

Autograph penmanship exercises signed : [ca. 1791?] : (B'ANA 0690) : 1 sheet, apparantly from a copy book, in her juvenile hand; "Try to write well and quickly" repeated 15 times on recto; an exercise using the word "Emolument" on the verso. Mounted between pp. 32-33 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.|||To the Rev. D'Ewes Coke, barrister agent to the Duke of Rutland : 1 autograph letter signed : no date [watermark = 1819] : (B'ANA 0480) : responding to an invitation to see his daughters' dance recital.|||To a Miss Sedley : 1 autograph letter : no date [ca. 1812?] : (B'ANA 0194) : referring to a reading of "Childe Harold.".|||To an unknown recipient : 1 autograph letter (fragment) signed "M. A. Musters" : [no date] : (B'ANA 0689) : a small cut scrap, mentioning money and the Bank of England. Mounted opposite p. 31 in v. 1 of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.

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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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