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- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 67 manuscript pages (15 double sheets, 13 single sheets)
- Preferred Citation
- Chancery papers relating to the children of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Harriet, née Westbrook, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request access to this collection.
Transcriptions of nine major documents in the Chancery suit for custody of Ianthe and Charles Shelley. 13 pages in the hand of H. Buxton Forman; the rest in the hand of a legal secretary or clerk, copied for Forman in the 1870's or 1880's and bearing his annotations.
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Names
- Alexander, William, Sir, 1754 or 1755-1842
- Beauchamp, Elizabeth, 1782-1854
- Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838
- Esdaile, Ianthe, 1813-1876
- Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 (annotator)
- Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 (scribe)
- Horne, William, Sir, 1773-1860
- Shadwell, Lancelot, Sir, 1779-1850
- Shelley, Charles Bysshe, 1814-1826
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319