Augustus M. Moore manuscript material : 2 items 1879

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Augustus M. Moore manuscript material : 2 items 1879

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Augustus M. Moore, a younger brother of the writer George Moore. Two manuscript attestations for skull fragments of Percy Bysshe Shelley : 11 Aug 1879 : (S'ANA 0269a-b) : nearly identical in text; (S'ANA 0269a) reads in full, "A piece of Shelley's scull / given me by Miss / Taylor, E. J. Trelawny's / niece, at 7 Pelham / Crescent London, London on / August 9th 1879 & given / by me to my friend / Wilfrid Meynell on August / 11th 1879 as the greatest / token of our friendship. / Augustus M. Moore / 28 Clarge's St / London." See record for Fragments of the skull of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

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Moore, Augustus M.

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Augustus M. Moore, a younger brother of the writer George Moore. From the guide to the Augustus M. Moore manuscript material : 2 items, 1879, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) ...

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...