Research Catalog

Title

Frederick James Furnivall manuscript material : 7 items, 1861-1892.

Author

Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.

Details

Additional Authors

Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937

Found In

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

Description

7 items

Summary

• · Autograph annotations on a letter to Furnivall from Percy Florence Shelley : 19 Sep 1886 : (S'ANA 0084) : on pages 1 and 2 of double sheet; filed under "Percy Florence Shelley."
• · To "My dear Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 May 1861 : (S'ANA 0907) : begins, "Mr. H. H. Gibbs of St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, N.W., offers to lend you the Lives of the Saints (Roxb. Club) 1443 & the Reliquae Antiquae, to read for us."
• · To "My dear Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 18 May 1866 : (S'ANA 0908) : begins, "This is to return thanks to Mrs. Peacock for her Stephens extracts." Also mentions plans to borrow an "Owl & Nightengale" manuscript from Jesus College. On mourning stationery.
• · To "Dear Sir" : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Apr 1875 : (MISC 2235) : offering to send copies of his preface, of the prospectus of the New Shakespeare Society.
• · To T. J. Wise, book collector and forger : 3 pieces of correspondence : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Apr 1886 : (S'ANA 0025-01) : on various matters of Shelley scholarship and a Shelley Society event. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Jun 1886 : (S'ANA 0025-02) : more on the Shelley Society event. -- 1 autograph post card signed : 19 Apr 1892 : (S'ANA 0025-08) : confirming Dr. John Scott, "shot by mistake in a duel in 1821," as the reviewer of Shelley's Cenci in the London Magazine in 1820. All three items from the files of H. B. Forman.

Subjects

• Scholars > Great Britain > Correspondence
• Scott, John, 1784-1821
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shelley Society
• Owl and the nightingale (Middle English poem)
• New Shakspere Society (Great Britain)
• Gibbs, Henry Hucks, 1819-1907
• Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910 > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

• Frederick James Furnivall, English textual scholar and editor.

Call Number

Pforz MS

OCLC

226247569

Author

Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.

Title

Frederick James Furnivall manuscript material : 7 items, 1861-1892.

Restricted Access

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

Biography

Frederick James Furnivall, English textual scholar and editor.

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Added Author

Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937, recipient.

Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, former owner.

Found In:

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

Research Call Number

Pforz MS