Rosalind Williams Hunt manuscript material : 5 items, 1848-1857

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Rosalind Williams Hunt manuscript material : 5 items, 1848-1857

· Pen drawing with ink wash, "Shelley's Tomb, Rome" : [no date] : (H'ANA 0026) : 32 x 20.5 cm; mounted. Filed upstairs in Extra Oversized Manuscripts Flat File. · To Claire Clairmont of the Shelley circle : 3 letters -- 1 autograph letter unsigned : 4 Dec 1848 : (H'ANA 0023) : begins, "My baby is now recovered and tho Mr. Bird said he had hooping cough I think it was nothing more than his teeth ..."; with the envelope. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Nov 1857 : (H'ANA 0024) : begins, "I was delighted to get a letter from you; I would give the world to see you..."; including, "I am very unhappy for I never intend if I can possibly help it to live with my husband again ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 1 Dec 1857 : (H'ANA 0025) : from 25 Milner Street, Brompton; begins, "What would I give to see you? I took a lodging in Bedford place Kensington but could not stand the solitude of living alone ..." · To Mary Shelley, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Feb 1849 : (H'ANA 0028) : begins, "Would you be kind enough to tell me Claire's address as I am very anxious that a letter should reach her ..."

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SNAC Resource ID: 7524163

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Hunt, Rosalind Williams, b. 1821.

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Rosalind ("Dina") Hunt, née Williams, daugher of Jane and Edward Ellerker Williams, friends of the Shelleys. She married Henry Sylvan Leigh Hunt, the son of Leigh Hunt, and with him had six children. From the description of Rosalind Williams Hunt manuscript material : 5 items, 1848-1857 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 434595784 ...

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....

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...

Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane, 1798-1879

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Amory, Sewell & Moores, London solicitors. Samuel Amory was the solicitor who represented Shelley in his post-obit transactions. From the guide to the Amory, Sewell & Moores manuscript material : 1 item, 1844, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: mistress of Lord Byron British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x00005f Clara ...

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859

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English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...