Carl H. Pforzheimer Library acquisition records, 1918-1986.
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Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957
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The New York financier and collector Carl Howard Pforzheimer (1879-1957) began acquiring materials documenting the English Romantic poets in the 1920s. After his death, his various collections became an asset of the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc. In 1986, the Foundation gave to the New York Public Library those items pertaining to the Romantics (including ca. 12,000 printed items, cataloged separately and searchable in the NYPL catalogue), and other tangential material, along with an...
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library
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Originally housed in his Park Avenue apartment, the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library moved to a suite in midtown Manhattan after Pforzheimer's death in 1957. There, Kenneth Neill Cameron, leading Shelley scholar of the time, continued his work as editor of the multi-volume Shelley and his Circle publication, years later followed by Donald H. Reiman. Mihai Handrea, hired as librarian in 1970, became the first curator of The Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle (a portion of the much larger...
