Two manuscript poems and nineteen letters, 1834 Jun. 4 -- 1857 Apr. 10

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Two manuscript poems and nineteen letters, 1834 Jun. 4 -- 1857 Apr. 10

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Two holograph manuscript poems and nineteen pieces of correspondence, comprising the Elizabeth Barrett Browning materials in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle. Holograph ms. poem, "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (Misc. Ms. 819); fair copy. Holograph ms. poem, "The Dead Pan" (Misc. Ms. 1766); dated 1843; bound ms. fair copy. ALs to Hugh Stuart Boyd, Greek scholar, 4 Jun. 1834 (Misc. Ms. 1901). 10 ALs to Mrs. Henry Francis Cust née Miss Cookson, widow of Major Sidney Robert Streatfield. 3 letters addressed to Mrs. Streatfield, ca. Apr.-Jun. 1852 -- 21 June 1852 (Misc. Ms. 1711-1712, 1714); 7 letters addressed to Mrs. Cust, 14-16 Aug. 1852 -- 23 Oct. 1853 (Misc. Ms. 1715-1720, 1892). ALS to Ellen Heaton, art collector and philanthropist, 21 Oct. 1852 (Misc. Ms. 1919). 2 ALS to Richard H. Horne, writer, 22 Feb. 1844, with suggestions regarding the chapter on Mary Shelley in his A new spirit of the age (Shelleyana 900); 3 Dec. 1844 (Misc. Ms. 1369). ALS to Edward Moxon, publisher and poet, 9 Aug. 1844 (Misc. Ms. 820). Tipped in to book, Pforz (Browning, E.B./Battle) 1891. 3 ALS to Clementia Taylor, women's rights activist, 2 Apr. 1845 -- 15 Sept. 1851 (Misc. Ms. 1729-1731). ALS to unknown recipient (Misc. Ms. 1). Letter written from Casa Guidi in Florence, Italy.

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Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858

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Moxon was an English publisher and verse writer and Taylor was a London publisher and printer. From the description of Memorandum of agreement ... between John Taylor ... and Edward Moxon ..., London : manuscript, 1845 Sept. 30. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78553218 Alfred Tennyson was a British poet and playwright. From the guide to the Alfred Tennyson collection of papers, 1823-1907, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collect...

Streatfield, Mrs. Sidney Robert,

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Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...

Boyd, Hugh Stuart, 1781-1848

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Taylor, Clementia, 1810-1908.

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Cust, Mrs. Henry Francis,

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Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884

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Richard Hengist Horne (1803-1884) was an English author. From the description of Correspondence of R. H. Horne, 1847-1877. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122369262 Poet, born near London, migrating to Australia to try his fortune on the gold fields in 1852. Member of the Melbourne Literary Group which included Clarke, Gordon and Kendall. Returned to England in 1869. Among his work, he wrote the epic poem Orion,edited the Ne...

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (b. 30 August 1797, Somers Town, London-d. 1 February 1851, London, England) was an English novelist, best known as the author of Frankenstein. She also wrote short-stories, poetry, biographies, journal articles, reviews, and edited the works of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley....