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Creator
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
123 items
Preferred Citation
Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscript material, 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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Thomas Jefferson Hogg, friend and biographer of the poet Shelley. The Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence and documents. The writings include some original verses; his Oxford notebook, which contains a holograph Shelley poem; and notes written in Taylor shorthand in a copy of his Two Hundred and Nine Days. Correspondents include his friend B. Hoskyns Abrahall, a commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy; Thomas Love Peacock, the satirical novelist; Mary Shelley, the novelist; Percy Bysse Shelley, the poet; and a few others. Documents include an 1816 passport, and a legacy discharge document for his bequest under Shelley's will.

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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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