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Creator
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862
Call number
Pforz MS
Physical description
123 items
Language
English
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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The Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence and documents. The writings include some original verses; his school exercise book from Oxford, which contains a holograph poem "Oh wretched mortal" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (PBS 0215); and a heavily annotated copy of his published travel book Two Hundred and Nine Days. Correspondents include his friend B. Hoskyns Abrahall, a commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy; Leight Hunt, the poet, journalist, and critic; Thomas Love Peacock, the satirical novelist and poet; Mary Wollstonecraft 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 Percy Bysshe Shelley's will.

Biographical/historical information

Thomas Jefferson Hogg, friend and biographer of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Scope and arrangement

The Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscript material is arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the Pforzheimer Collection's Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscripts – including the letters to B. Hoskyns Abrahall – were acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at the sale of the library of H. Buxton Forman, the English bibliographer and literary forger, on April 26, 1920. A few additional Hogg manuscripts were acquired in the 1920s. Another major Hogg acquisition came in June, 1948, through Sotheby's, with the purchase of a large collection of letters which had remained in Hogg's family, including Hogg's letters to Thomas Love Peacock, but also important letters to Hogg from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley (see separate finding aids). After Pforzheimer's death in 1957 acquisitions continued under the auspices of the Pforzheimer Foundation; Hogg's Oxford exercise book was acquired in 1961, directly from his descendants. Since the Collection's 1986 move to the New York Public Library, only a handful of Hogg manuscripts have been acquired. This finding aid will be updated as new acquisitions are made.

Processing information

Finding aid created and imported into ArchivesSpace by Timothy Gress, August 2023.

Related Material

The Pforzheimer Collection holds some seventy-five volumes, mostly classical, from Hogg's personal library, including a six-volume set of Edmund Spenser's Collected Works (1750) inscribed to Hogg from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (MWS 0426). The Collection also holds a copy of his 1813 novel Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff and several copies of his 1858 biography The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. In addition, there are several holograph letters addressed to Hogg from Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Percy Bysshe Shelley and a small handful of holograph letters written by other members of the Hogg family.

Using the collection

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

Access to materials

Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.