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The Collection was the creation of the financier Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), who took a special interest in the lives and works of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his contemporaries, including his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and such friends and fellow writers as Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, Teresa Guiccioli, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock, Horace Smith, and Edward John Trelawny.
The [picture] alphabet
Sarah Biffin to unknown recipient, autograph letter signed
Eighth wonder! The nobility and gentry are respectfully informed, that the astonishing curiosity Miss Beffin intends exhibiting her wonderful powers, in a commodious booth, during the present fair
Miss Farren
Autograph letter signed to Lydia Withering, 19 February 1812
Autograph letter signed to Lydia Withering, 17 February 1810
Autograph letter signed to Lydia Withering, 6 November 1800
Graphic illustrations of The miseries of human life
Graphic illustrations of The miseries of human life
Graphic illustrations of The miseries of human life
August 1st 1834. Slavery in the British Dominions utterly and for ever abolished
Holograph comment in a copy of John Marston's The Dutch Courtezan (1605)
Poem (transcript), "A Cat in Distress"
Letter (copy), in the hand of Mary Shelley, to Mary Shelley, 23-24 August 1818
Autograph letter signed to Edward Fergus Graham, 20 May 1810
Autograph letter signed to John Joseph Stockdale, 6 September 1810
Holograph poem, "Cold, cold is the blast"
Autograph letter unsigned to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, [7-8 November 1811]
Autograph letter signed to Timothy Shelley, [12 October 1811]
Autograph letter signed to James Roe, [?circa 10 November 1810]
Autograph letter signed to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, [10-12 November 1811]
Autograph letter signed to John Williams, [6 March 1813]
Autograph letter signed to Sir Bysshe Shelley, 12 October 1811
Autograph letter signed to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, [6 November 1811]
Autograph letter signed to William Sandham, [?26 November 1811-26 January 1812]