William Clement Henry Esdaile manuscript material : 1 item, 1948

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William Clement Henry Esdaile manuscript material : 1 item, 1948

ยท To Kenneth Neill Cameron, Shelley scholar : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Dec 1948 : (S'ANA 0013) : including, "I am afraid the later professor N. I. White made a mistake in thinking I had Shelley's manuscripts in my possession ... I have hardly anything of his except one small book ... "

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SNAC Resource ID: 6950090

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Esdaile, William Clement Henry, 1878-1956.

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William Clement Henry Esdaile, great-grandson of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley's manuscript notebook of juvenilia, dubbed "The Esdaile Notebook," was in the possession of Esdaile's family until 1962, when it was sold by his sister, Lettice A. Worrall. The notebook is now held by the Pforzheimer Collection. From the description of William Clement Henry Esdaile manuscript material : 1 item, 1948 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 185100443 From the guide to the Wil...

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...