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Collections in Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

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Aikin-Sneath, Betsy
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Betsy Aikin-Sneath, married name Rogers, English literary scholar and biographer of Anna Letitia Barbauld. · To F. L. Pleadwell, American physician and collector : 1 autograph letter signed : 28 May 1833 : (MISC 0853a) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet)... more
Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron, 1857-1941
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. To Sir Charles Wakefield : 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Aug. 1911 : (MISC 1368) : offering to send him a copy of his Sketches in Mafeking and East... more
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Holograph review of André Maurois's Ariel; ou, La vie de Shelley : (S'ANA 0005) ; unsigned. Undated, but the book was first published in 1923 -- this review was likely written shortly thereafter.
Best, R. T
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
4 items
To Major W. Van R. Whitall, American philanthropist : 2 autograph letters signed ; 23 Feb - 24 Aug 1925, in regard to a (forged) letter from Shelley to Godwin (S'ANA 0227) which refers to an Irish saint. Also discusses James Stephens's move to... more
Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
8 items
Typescript poem, "Shelley's Last Days" : [ca. 1945] : (S'ANA 0936) : three pages with pencil revisions.
Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil), 1851-1935
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
9 items
Andrew Cecil Bradley, English literary scholar. In 1901 he was elected as Oxford Professor of Poetry. To Charles Dealtry Locock, writer and editor : 9 autograph letters signed : ca. 1904 - 1906 (S'ANA 0956--0964), relating to Shelley and Locock's... more
Brett-Smith, H. F. B. (Herbert Francis Brett)
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
3 items
H. F. B. Brett-Smith, British literary scholar. He edited Peacock's memoirs of Shelley (1909), Peacock's Four ages of poetry (1921), and a 1924 ten-volume edition of Peacock's works. To R. N. Green-Armytage, literary scholar : 2 autograph letters... more
Call, Laetitia Trelawny, 1848-1938
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
27 items
To Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti, painter and biographer : 7 autograph letters signed : 20 Jun 1878 -- 8 Jun 1891: (T'ANA 0017-0018) (T'ANA 0020-0021) (T'ANA 0023-0024) (T'ANA 0027) : on various subjects relating to her father, his friends, and Mr.... more
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz (RECAP 0007)
23 manuscript boxes
Originally housed in his Park Avenue apartment, the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library moved to a suite in midtown Manhattan after Pforzheimer's death in 1957. There, Kenneth Neill Cameron, leading Shelley scholar of the time, continued his work as... more
Casson, Lewis, Sir, 1875-1969
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Lewis Casson, English actor and theater director. · To Neville Rogers, Shelley scholar : 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Oct 1947 : (S'ANA 0912.01) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from 98 Swan Court, Chelsea, SW3 : begins, "I am very grateful to you for... more
Clairmont family.
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 linear foot
After the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1822, Claire Clairmont left her widowed step-sister Mary in Italy, after having lived with the Shelleys for years. She joined her brother Charles in Vienna, who had recently moved there to teach English.... more
Clairmont, Ottilie Caroline Anna von Pichler, 1843-1913
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
Holograph diary, 1865-1866 : (CL'ANA 0064) : in German. With an inscription in English from her husband Wilhelm. Shelved under "Clairmont" in Pforz BT.
Clarke, Edith, 1861-1941
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
4 items
Edith Clarke, née Nicolls, English promoter of home economics teaching. She was the maternal granddaughter of Thomas Love Peacock, novelist and poet. · Twenty-seven holograph recipes : [ca. 1860's-1870's?] : (TLP 0041) : 23 pages (within notebook,... more
Darton, F. J. Harvey (Frederick Joseph Harvey), 1878-1936
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton, English publisher and writer. Holograph manuscript, "The Leipzig Exhibition, 1914" : 1924 : (MISC 1297) : essay written on 3 leaves, front and back ; begins, "Leipzig has always been one of the chief centers of the... more
Dowden, Edward, 1843-1913
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
9 items
Notes and commentary on Shelley's Esdaile notebook : (S'ANA 0395) : ca. 1886 : 78 leaves in ruled notebook. This notebook contains transcriptions of Shelley's Esdaile poems through "The Voyage" on the rectos -- the facing versos contain pencil and... more
Draper, Ruth, 1884-1956
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
42 items
Ruth Draper, American dramatist, best known for her monologues. To Neville Rogers, Shelley scholar : 42 pieces of correspondence : 1947-1955 : (S'ANA 0912-02a -- 0912-28) : consisting of autograph letters, typescript letters, and post cards.
Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth Baron Dunsany, Irish writer. · To Neville Rogers, Shelley scholar : 1 autograph letter signed : 25 Jan 1939 : (S'ANA 0912.36) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from Dunsany Castle, Co. Meath (printed... more
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
The army general and 34th president of the United States was president of Columbia University from February 1948 to December 1950. To John T. Van Sant, of the Horace Mann School for Boys in New York City : 1 typescript letter signed : 20 Mar 1950... more
Esdaile, William Clement Henry, 1878-1956
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
William Clement Henry Esdaile, great-grandson of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley's manuscript notebook of juvenilia, dubbed "The Esdaile Notebook," was in the possession of Esdaile's family until 1962, when it was sold by his sister, Lettice A.... more
Fleay, Frederick Gard, 1831-1909
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz Ms
3 items
Frederick Gard Fleay, Shakespeare scholar. · Holograph essay signed, "On the received text of Shelley's poems" : 12 Sep 1894 : (S'ANA 0014) : 52 p., in brown cloth folding case. At the end is a note written by Fleay to the printer. Shelved as... more
Forman, Alfred, 1840-1925
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
8 items
Alfred Forman, English translator. After attending a Wagner concert in 1873, he began producing poetic translations of the operas into English, most of which remain unpublished. He was the brother of bibliographer and forger Harry Buxton Forman.... more
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
60 items
Harry Buxton Forman, English bibliographer and forger. He wrote a great deal of critical and bibliographic literary scholarship throughout his life, most notably on Shelley and Keats, all the while maintaining a career in the Post Office. In 1886... more
Forman, Maurice Buxton
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz Ms
8 items
Maurice Buxton Forman, English postal worker and literary editor. He was the son of the bibliographer and forger H. Buxton Forman, and has been posthumously implicated as a party to his father's literary counterfeit schemes. Forman produced... more
France, Anatole, 1844-1924
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz Ms
1 item
Anatole France, French author. · To a Monsieur le d.r Mignon : 8 Feb 1922 : (MISC 0016) : in French ; begins, "Je vous remercie specialment d'avoir faite auprès de la compagnie les démarches nécessaires.".
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz Ms
20 items
Richard Garnett, English librarian and author; spent his career at the British Museum, becoming Keeper of Printed Books in 1890. Garnett wrote and edited several works on Shelley, including Relics of Shelley (1862). · Corrections on printed... more
Genootschap Willem Bilderdijk
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
1 item
The Genootschap Willem Bilderdijk -- an appreciation society for the Dutch poet Willem Bilderdijk. To Mrs. Ellen A. Boult, great-granddaughter of Robert Southey : 1 autograph letter signed : 15 Jun 1937 : (MISC 1608) : on research into Southey's... more
Harper, Henry Howard, 1871-
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz Ms
2 items
Henry Howard Harper (1871-1953), American writer and editor. He served for years as an officer for The Bibliophile Society of Boston, and produced several works privately printed by that group, including The Letters of Charles Lamb (1905); Byron's... more
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz Ms
[26] leaves
· 1 letter : [no date] : from Hotel Taube, Schruus, [i.e., Schruns] Vorarlberg, Autriche; addressed to "Dear Ernest and Dear Miss Moorhead"; begins, "Hurray for the new Review. I think its a fine thing for you both to do ...".
Hewlett, Maurice, 1861-1923
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz Ms
1 item
Maurice Henry Hewlett, English novelist and poet. His first novel, The Forest Lovers (1898) was a critical and popular success. Among his works are The Life of Richard Yea-and-Nay (1900), about Richard I, and The Queen's Quair (1904), on Mary,... more
Hudson, Margaret, 1800-1860
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz BND-MSS (Hudson, M.)
1 volume (82 total leaves, some blank) + inserts
Margaret Williams was born on April 6, 1800 in Calcutta, to Robert Williams, a merchant and auctioneer, and his wife, Margaret. Robert Williams died in 1813, leaving his wife to care for Margaret and six other daughters; charitable subscriptions... more
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