Research Catalog

Title

Records of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library and related publications, 1932-1986.

Author

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Found In

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Description

23 manuscript boxes

Summary

23 manuscript boxes of correspondence, proofs, and printed material comprising the Pforzheimer Library papers in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

Subjects

• Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 > Between the lines
• Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 > Exhibitions
• Pforzheimer, Carl H (Carl Howard), 1879-1957
• Cameron, Kenneth Neill
• Peck, Walter Edwin, 1891-1954
• Jones, Frederick L (Frederick Lafayette), 1901-
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 > Letters of Mary W. Shelley
• Carl H. Pforzheimer Library
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Esdaile notebook
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Criticism and interpretation
• Reiman, Donald H
• Handrea, Mihai H

Note

• Box 20 contains papers relating to the Marchand Library purchase.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• Acquisition records (1918-1986) of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library are available in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library.

Biography (note)

• Originally housed in his Park Avenue apartment, the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library moved to a suite in midtown Manhattan after Pforzheimer's death in 1957. There, Kenneth Neill Cameron, leading Shelley scholar of the time, continued his work as editor of the multi-volume Shelley and his Circle publication, years later followed by Donald H. Reiman. Mihai Handrea, hired as librarian in 1970, became the first curator of The Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle (a portion of the much larger Pforzheimer Library) when it moved to the New York Public Library in 1986.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Pforz (RECAP 0007)

OCLC

NYPG05-A10145

Author

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library.

Title

Records of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library and related publications, 1932-1986.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Location of Other Archival Materials

Acquisition records (1918-1986) of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library are available in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library.

Biography

Originally housed in his Park Avenue apartment, the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library moved to a suite in midtown Manhattan after Pforzheimer's death in 1957. There, Kenneth Neill Cameron, leading Shelley scholar of the time, continued his work as editor of the multi-volume Shelley and his Circle publication, years later followed by Donald H. Reiman. Mihai Handrea, hired as librarian in 1970, became the first curator of The Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle (a portion of the much larger Pforzheimer Library) when it moved to the New York Public Library in 1986.

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: Manuscripts, 1772-1925

Research Call Number

Pforz (RECAP 0007)