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Call number
*Pforz BT (Shelley, M. 02)
Physical description
1 volume (230 leaves), 26 cm; 1 volume (230 leaves), 26 cm
Preferred Citation
Original manuscripts of the contents of The Keepsake, 1831. : In the handwriting of the several authors [manuscript album], 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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A collection of twenty-two literary manuscripts by various writers, comprising nearly half of the content of The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXI. Submissions were sent to the editor, Frederick Mansel Reynolds, before 1831; few manuscripts are dated, but watermarks range from 1825 to 1830. Contributers include Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lady Blessington, L.E.L., and over a dozen others.

Scope and arrangement

A collection of twenty-two literary manuscripts by various writers, comprising nearly half of the content of The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXI. Submissions were sent to the editor, Frederick Mansel Reynolds, before 1831; few manuscripts are dated, but watermarks range from 1825 to 1830. Contributers include Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lady Blessington, L.E.L., and over a dozen others.|||Bound in brown half morocco over marbled boards, with spine-titling in gilt; endpapers are watermarked "1834." With the ex-libris of Roderick Terry on the front paste-down.

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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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