The papers of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library and related publications, 1932-1986.

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The papers of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library and related publications, 1932-1986.

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20 manuscript boxes of correspondence, proofs, and printed material comprising the Pforzheimer Library papers in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle. Correspondence and memorobilia of Carl H. Pforzheimer, 1932-1957, including files regarding H. Buxton Forman's Between the lines (Box 1-2). Papers related to the three-volume catalog published in 1940 (The Carl H. Pforzheimer library: English literature 1475-1700); Typewritten and handwritten copies, index of cross-references (Box 3-4), proofs with illustrations (Box 5), patron requests (Box 6-7), printing history (Box 8). Papers related to scholarly works based upon research in the library (Box 9): Proofs of Frederick L. Jones's 1944 Letters of Mary W. Shelley; a handwritten copy of Walter Edwin Peck's 1927 Shelley, his life and work. Notes for, correspondence regarding, and proofs of the 1964 edition of the Esdaile Notebook edited by Kenneth Neil Cameron (Box 10-11). Copy, proofs and correspondence relating to works edited by Donald H. Reiman, including: the 1977 Norton edition of Shelley's poetry and prose (Box 12-14); 1978's The Evidence of the imagination: studies of interactions between life and art in English romantic literature (Box 15-16); the Shelley critical piece published for Twayne's English authors series in 1969 (Box 17); the Garland series' 1985 facsimile edition of The Esdaile notebook (Box 18); and Reiman's files related to the 1987 exhibition, "Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism," (Box 19). Files and correspondence of librarian Mihai Handrea (Box 20).

20 manuscript boxes.

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Reiman, Donald H.

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Donald Reiman : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376578 ...

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...

Peck, Walter Edwin, 1891-1954

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Author; M.A., Columbia, 1918; Ph. D., Oxford, 1922; 1924-1926, taught at Wesleyan University; 1926-1927, head of the English Department of Washington State College; 1927-1929 taught at Hunter College. From the description of Walter Edwin Peck papers, 1830-1930 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166254 Epithet: bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x00026f Author; M....

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

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British poet. From the description of Letters, 1827 Jan. 12-1836 Feb. 20. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953362 Wordsworth, English poet. From the description of [Letters, 1826-1848] / Wm. Wordsworth. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 501844796 Wordsworth was an English poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1801-1853. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122372656 From the guide to the William Wordsw...

Cameron, Kenneth Neill

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Kenneth Neill Cameron (1908-1994), a Shelley scholar, best known for his four-volume Shelley and His Circle, was also the author of a biography of Joseph Stalin, and works on Marxist philosophy, world history, and ecology, and a volume of poetry. Cameron was a professor of English at Indiana University and later at New York University. The collection consists mainly of published and unpublished typescripts, including an incomplete autobiographical typescript, and correspondence, both editorial a...

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....

Jones, Frederick L. (Frederick Lafayette), 1901-1973

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Frederick L. Jones, American professor and scholar of British Romanticism. His 1964 edition of the collected letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley remains the authoritative text of Shelley's correspondence. From the description of Frederick L. Jones manuscript material : 13 items, 1951-1958 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 442034930 ...

Handrea, Mihai H.

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Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917

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The controversial bibliographer Harry Buxton Forman was best known for his work on Shelley, Keats, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as for collaborating with Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937) in the creation of numerous literary forgeries. From the description of Harry Buxton Forman volumes, ca. 1892-1907. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 82181516 Harry Buxton Forman, English bibliographer and forger. He wrote a great deal of critical and bibliographic literary...

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...

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...