Administrative information
Custodial history
This guide lists and describes the manuscript material held by the Pforzheimer Collection that was created by Horace Smith. These items have been acquired throughout the history of the Collection and are kept at the New York Public Library.
The first Horace Smith manuscript added to the collection was the letter to his nephew Charles, purchased in 1920, which was laid in to H. Buxton Forman's copy of Smith's Amarynthus. The next was not acquired for another thirty three years, when the letter to John Murray, responding on February 1st, 1833 to a dinner invitation, was purchased through Rosenbach. These were the only two Horace Smith manuscripts in the Collection at the time of Carl H. Pforzheimer's death in 1957.
The majority of the Horace Smith manuscripts in the Collection were acquired under the auspices of the Pforzheimer Library. Between 1966 and 1983 over sixty Horace Smith manuscripts were accessioned, including the 1817 letter to Thomas Hill inviting him to dine with Hunt, Shelley, and others; and the 1821 letter to Charles Ollier offering to forward Shelley's books to him in Italy.
Since the Collection's move to the New York Public Library in 1986, over a dozen Horace Smith letters have been acquired. Because the Pforzheimer Collection collects actively, more Horace Smith letters may be accessioned in the future as they become available for purchase.
Processing information
Processed by Charles Carter and Timothy Gress, 2022.
Note
A few of the manuscripts listed in this guide have been included in Shelley and his Circle, 1773-1822, a multi-volume publication that presents selected manuscripts from the Pforzheimer Collection. Shelley and his Circle provides extensive descriptions of the manuscripts, along with commentary, textual analysis, and some facsimile reproductions. Some items in this guide not yet published in Shelley and his Circle may be included in future volumes of that publication.Reference is also made to The Poetical Works of Horace Smith (London: Henry Colburn, 1846).