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Creator
Turner, Cornelia, 1795-1874
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
1 item
Preferred Citation
Cornelia Turner manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Cornelia Turner, née de Boinville, wife of Thomas Turner, English lawyer and banker. In 1813 she befriended the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. · To Claire Clairmont, of the Shelley circle : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Oct 1852 : (S'ANA 0124) : 2 pages (double sheet) + envelope : from Rue de Clichy, Paris : begins, "I answer as you request by return of post your letter of the 2d instant which I have just received. I can clearly state that I was acquainted with you when we were both gilrs . . ."; later saying, "I had already heard with regret of the death of Mrs. Shelley . . . .".

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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
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