Maurice Buxton forman manuscript material : 8 items, 1909-1953

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Maurice Buxton forman manuscript material : 8 items, 1909-1953

· To Neville Rogers, Shelley scholar : 5 autograph letters signed : 1948-1953 : (S'ANA 0912.37--41) : three of five written on printed South African "air letter" sheets ; discussing various literary subjects, including Keats and Shelley. · To a Clinton N. Rutan of New Jersey : 2 autograph letters signed : 17-21 Oct 1940 : (S'ANA 0947h.1-2) : both with stamped envelopes ; on several matters of Shelley-related interest, primarily the suicide letter of Harriet Shelley. The later letter gives a British Museum call number for a Harriet Shelley letter, noting "their MSS are not available until after the war." Rutan was apparently preparing to produce "a life of Shelley in illustrations." · To T. J. Wise, book collector and forger : 1 [autograph?] letter (copy) : 16 Mar 1909 : (S'ANA 0581) : upon discovering a pirated edition of Tennyson's "Lover's Tale" in his father's library which "does not tally with any of the six editions" Wise mentions in his Tennyson bibliography. Removed from the Pfozheimer Collection's copy of the bibliography.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7086370

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Keats, John, 1795-1821

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John Keats was an English poet and literary critic. John Keats, English poet, was born in London, England, on 29 or 31 Oct. 1795. He died of tuberculosis in Italy on 23 Feb. 1821. In 1810, Keats was articled to a surgeon, T. Hammond, in Edmonton for five years. The contract was broken in 1814 or 1815. He then continued his study of surgery in London, entering Guy's Hospital on 2 Oct. 1815. In 1816, Keats became a dresser at Guy's and on 25 July 1816 passed his licentiate at Apothecaries' H...

Rogers, Neville.

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Neville Rogers was an authority on Percy Shelley and a professor at Ohio University. Rogers was born in London, England, on 5 January 1908. He attended Rossal School and Birkbeck College, and graduated with honors in the classics. He served as Headmaster or Assistant Master at various preparatory schools in England, positions that were interrupted from 1941-1946, when he served in the Royal Air Force Intelligence Service. After the war, Rogers worked with The Times Literary Supplement on their w...

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...

Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937

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Epithet: of Add MS 38794 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001295.0x00005c Thomas James Wise was an English book collector, printer, bibliographer, and literary forger. From the description of Thomas James Wise collection of papers, 1876-1937. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455235 From the guide to the Thomas James Wise collection of papers, 1876-1937, (The New York Public ...

Forman, Maurice Buxton.

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Maurice Buxton Forman was a bibliographer and editor. Although he was interested in several literary figures during his lifetime, Forman is most often remembered in light of his work on George Meredith and John Keats. From the description of Papers of Maurice Buxton Forman, 1898-1942. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122386415 Epithet: bibliographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Des...

Rutan, Clinton N.

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