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Call number
Pforz Ms
Physical description
3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet)
Preferred Citation
Address'd to the ladies at Little Chelsea [manuscript poem], 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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Anonymous fair copy sixty-one line poem, apparently unpublished, about a young woman named Fanny, forced by her family to work as a servant and seamstress at a vicarage; begins, "As you my dear friends have oft said was a pity / That a Girl like your Fanny so lively witty, / So form'd for to shine, at a Ball, or a Play, / By a Brother, and Aunt, shou'd be hurried away ...." The paper bears an armorial watermark of Britannia and a countermark of the letter "C" in a circle; paper with similar watermarks dates to the 1780's.

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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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