Original manuscripts of the contents of The Keepsake, 1831. In the handwriting of the several authors [manuscript album].

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Location

Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

Extent

• 1 volume (230 leaves); 26 cm.

Access Restrictions

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Scope/Contents Notes

A collection of twenty-two literary manuscripts by variouswriters, comprising nearly half of the content of The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXI. Submissions were sent to the editor, Frederick Mansel Reynolds, before 1831; few manuscripts are dated, but watermarks range from 1825 to 1830. Contributers include Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lady Blessington, L.E.L., and over a dozen others.

Bound in brown half morocco over marbled boards, with spine-titling in gilt; endpapers are watermarked "1834." With the ex-libris of Roderick Terry on the front paste-down.

Additional Creator Names

• Bernal, Ralph, 1783-1854.
• Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849.
• Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864.
• Carne, John, 1789-1844.
• Dover, George Agar Ellis, Baron, 1797-1833.
• Hook, Theodore Edward, 1788-1841.
• Howden, John Hobart Caradoc, Baron, 1799-1873.
• L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), 1802-1838.
• Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868.
• Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850.
• Phipps, Charles Beaumont, Sir, 1801-1866.
• Ravensworth, Henry Thomas Liddell, Earl of, 1797-1878.
• Reynolds, Frederic Mansel, d. 1850.
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
• Terry, Roderick T., 1849-1933. fmo
• Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925