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Creator
Nemo, active 1970-
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
1 item
Preferred Citation
Four manuscript sonnets on Percy Bysshe Shelley, 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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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 hadst seen thine error and returned". Signed "Nemo Aug.t 183[-]" (last digit of date cut off). Tipped into Pforzheimer copy 3 of the first edition, first issue of Byron's Prisoner of Chillon. A partially erased inscription on the front free endpaper, in what seems to be the same hand as that in the "sonnets," examined in ultra-violet light, reads: "Julia R[ ] June 1824 / from Eliz[a] R[ ] / June 18 / 1817.".

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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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