Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (core collection)
MSS. Shelley c. 1, d. 1-3, e. 1-6
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Shelley Manuscripts and Relics (core collection)
Shelfmark
MSS. Shelley c. 1, d. 1-3, e. 1-6
Summary
Letters of Percy and Mary Shelley, notebooks etc. of Percy Shelley, with portraits and relics of them both.
Date
1811-1822, n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
10 shelfmarks and 7 objects
Acquisition
The core collection comprises the first part of the family collection at Boscombe, nr. Bournemouth, Dorset, as selected and given by Jane Lady Shelley, widow of the Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley, in 1893 and 1894.
Subject
19th century
Poetry
