English & Becks related manuscript material : 30 items 1820-1828

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English & Becks related manuscript material : 30 items 1820-1828

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/21902

These items were acquired together, forming a manuscript collection relating to Shelley's Bath upholsterers, English & Becks. Included are letters, documents, and contemporary copies to and from people associated with the following firms: Bell De Young and Co., merchant banking house of Leghorn ; R. G. & H. R. Burfoot, London solicitors ; the Pelican Life Insurance Company ; Tugwell, McKenzie & Co., banking firm ; and the following individuals: Richard Else, Bath solicitor ; Captain Daniel Roberts, superintendant of the building of Shelley's boat ; and Sir Timothy Shelley.

The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6310414

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Tugwell, McKenzie & Co

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

Parke, Thomas, Secretary, Pelican Life Insurance Company.

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Shelley, Timothy, Sir, 1753-1844

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Father of the poet. From the description of Autograph letter in third person : Field Place, to Mr. Child, 1839 Oct. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662121 ...

Hare, George

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Epithet: carpenter, RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000132.0x00012f ...

Bell, De Young & Co

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Wright, William, solicitor

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Tugwell, W. E

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Bell, John, banker

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Tugwell, G H

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R. G. & H. R. Burfoot, solicitors.

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Kingsdown, Thomas Pemberton-Leigh, Baron, 1793-1867

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English & Becks, upholsterers of Bath.

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English and Becks, upholsterers of Bath. Edmund English, Robert English and Andrew Berkeley Becks furnished Albio House at Great Marlow for Shelley on credit in the winter and early spring of 1817, and were never paid. They were forced to declare bankruptcy in 1828. A detailed historical account and a list of documents in the Pforzheimer Collection relating to English & Becks (including these manuscripts and others) is provided in Shelley and His Circle, vol. VIII, p. 827-845. Fr...

Roberts, Daniel, Captain

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Gloyn, John

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Lynch, A. H., solicitor

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Else, Richard

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Hare, Charles

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Pelican (Firm)

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