Clarinda Knowles Atkyns manuscript material

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Creator

Atkyns, Clarinda Knowles, b. 1797.

Location

Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

Extent

• 1 item

Access Restrictions

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

Scope/Contents Note

· To Thomas Love Peacock : 1 autograph letter signed : 30Apr. [ca. 1850] : (P'ANA 0022) : begins, "I was so glad tosee your letters yesterday -- I did not like the last one I wrote after it was done ..."

Biographical/Historical Note

Clarinda Atkyns, née Knowles, lifelong friend of Thomas Love Peacock. Peacock declared his love for the fifteen year old beauty in an 1812 letter to his friend Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (cf. Joukovsky, N. Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, 47). She eventually married the Revd.John Atkyns (1802 or 1803-1875).

Controlled Access Terms

• Atkyns, Clarinda Knowles, b. 1797 -- Correspondence.
• Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866 -- Friends and associates.

Additional Creator Names

• Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866. rcp
• Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925