Shelley family papers, 1806-1818.

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Shelley family papers, 1806-1818.

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The collection consists of correspondence and geneological material relating to the ancestry of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). There are letters from the poet's father, Sir Timothy Shelley, and William Ratcliffe, Rouge Croix of the College of Arms, among others. The collection also contains extracts from church and county records, copies of monumental inscriptions, drawings of coats of arms and heraldic devices, and pedigree charts. There is also one contemporary 17th century manuscript.

55 pieces.1 box.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6766500

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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 ...

Ratcliffe, William D.

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Shelley family.

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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...