Research Catalog

Title

Percy Bysshe Shelley collection of papers, 1809-1908.

Author

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

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Details

Additional Authors

• Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879.
• Clairmont, Pauline, 1825-1891.
• Dent, Rosamund.
• Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917.
• Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.
• Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.
• Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.
• Jones, Herbert.
• Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919.
• Newman, Henry Roderick, 1843-1917.
• Shelley, Lady, (Jane), 1820-1899.
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
• Shelly McGovern, Susan.
• Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940.

Description

93 items.

Subjects

• Forgeries
• Correspondence
• Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

Genre/Form

• Correspondence.
• Forgeries.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Percy Bysshe Shelley was a British poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

• This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the materials was formerly owned by W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. A number of letters were previously owned by T. Roderick Terry and contain his bookplate. The April 23, 1810 letter to Edward Fergus Graham contains Harry Bache Smith's bookplate.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Shelley, P. B.

Author

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

Title

Percy Bysshe Shelley collection of papers, 1809-1908.

Summary

This is a synthetic collection that includes manuscripts, correspondence, and financial documents. The manuscripts include a holograph of an essay by Shelley and a transcription of a Shelley poem in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's hand. Also included are manuscript materials by Leigh Hunt and Humbert Wolf relating to Shelley. The financial documents include bank drafts, one of which is a forgery.

The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1809 to 1822, by the author to Claire Claremont, Edward Fergus Graham, Leigh Hunt, and others, as well as a copy in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's hand of letters to her from Shelley. Also included are letters relating to the author, dating from 1838 to 1908, exchanged between various correspondents including Richard Garnett, Herbert Jones, Thomas Holcroft, Lady Jane Shelley, Spencer Shelley, Charles Fairfax Murray, H. Buxton Forman, Paola Clairmont, Henry Roderick Newman, Susan Shelley, Rosamund Dent, and others. There is a letter to Shelley from Thomas Hookham, dated Dec. 13, 1816. The correspondence also includes an inventory of letters and notes pertaining to the estate of Claire Claremont with certificate of their sale by Paola Clairmont to Henry Roderick.

Restricted Access

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

Biography

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a British poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879.

Clairmont, Pauline, 1825-1891.

Dent, Rosamund.

Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917.

Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.

Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.

Jones, Herbert.

Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919.

Newman, Henry Roderick, 1843-1917.

Shelley, Lady, (Jane), 1820-1899.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Shelly McGovern, Susan.

Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940.

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner

Smith, Harry Bache, 1860-1936. Former owner

Terry, Roderick, 1849-1933. Former owner

Young, Owen D., 1874- Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Shelley, P. B.