Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions)
MSS. Shelley adds. a. 1 (r), b. 1-2, c. 2-16, d. 4-10, d. 1-19, e. 1-27, f. 1-5; MSS. Shelley Deeds c. 1-23; Shelley Relics (h)-(j), 1-35
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (additions)
Shelfmark
MSS. Shelley adds. a. 1 (r), b. 1-2, c. 2-16, d. 4-10, d. 1-19, e. 1-27, f. 1-5; MSS. Shelley Deeds c. 1-23; Shelley Relics (h)-(j), 1-35
Summary
Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
Date
1577-1992 (predominantly 18th-20th cent.)
Language
English
Physical extent
82 shelfmarks and 37 objects
Acquisition
Miscellaneous accessions added to the core collection after 1894 through gift or purchase from various sources, including the second part of the family collection from Boscombe, donated with further materials by Sir John Shelley-Rolls, the poet's great-nephew, through gift in 1946 and through bequest in 1961 after the death of his wife.
Subject
Authors
Poets
17th century
English literature
20th century
19th century
16th century
18th century
