Research Catalog

Title

Mary Ann Chaworth manuscript material : 4 items, ca. 1791-1819

Author

Chaworth, Mary Ann, 1786-1832.

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Details

Additional Authors

Coke, D'Ewes, 1774-1856.

Found In

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Description

4 items

Subjects

• Chaworth, Mary Ann, 1786-1832 > Correspondence
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 > Friends and associates

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Mary Ann Chaworth, distant relative of Lord Byron, and object of his adolescent affection. She married John Musters, of Colwick, in 1805. Chaworth is the subject of at least five of Byron's early poems, including "Hills of Annesley," and there are allusions to his love story in Childe Harold and in "The Dream" (1816).

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

85895018

Author

Chaworth, Mary Ann, 1786-1832.

Title

Mary Ann Chaworth manuscript material : 4 items, ca. 1791-1819

Summary

· Autograph penmanship exercises signed : [ca. 1791?] : (B'ANA 0690) : 1 sheet, apparantly from a copy book, in her juvenile hand; "Try to write well and quickly" repeated 15 times on recto; an exercise using the word "Emolument" on the verso. Mounted between pp. 32-33 in v. I of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.

· To the Rev. D'Ewes Coke, barrister agent to the Duke of Rutland : 1 autograph letter signed : no date [watermark = 1819] : (B'ANA 0480) : responding to an invitation to see his daughters' dance recital.

· To a Miss Sedley : 1 autograph letter : no date [ca. 1812?] : (B'ANA 0194) : referring to a reading of "Childe Harold."

· To an unknown recipient : 1 autograph letter (fragment) signed "M. A. Musters" : [no date] : (B'ANA 0689) : a small cut scrap, mentioning money and the Bank of England. Mounted opposite p. 31 in v. 1 of the grangerized copy of Nichol's Byron.

Restricted Access

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

Biography

Mary Ann Chaworth, distant relative of Lord Byron, and object of his adolescent affection. She married John Musters, of Colwick, in 1805. Chaworth is the subject of at least five of Byron's early poems, including "Hills of Annesley," and there are allusions to his love story in Childe Harold and in "The Dream" (1816).

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Added Author

Coke, D'Ewes, 1774-1856. Addressee

Found In:

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Research Call Number

Pforz MS