Thomas Love Peacock manuscript material

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Description: The Thomas Love Peacock manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. Among the writings are included: holograph working and fair copies of his collection of poetry titled, "Paper Money Lyrics"; a holograph epitaph for his daughter, Mary Ellen Meredith; and a collection of holograph recipes. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1818 and 1847. Correspondents include: John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, politician; Thomas Jefferson Hogg, barrister and friend of Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer; and over a dozen others.
Names: Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866 (Creator); Bowring, John, 1792-1872 (Addressee); Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, Baron, 1786-1869 (Addressee); Cabell, William H., 1772-1853 (Addressee); Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879 (Addressee); Cole, Henry, 1808-1882 (Addressee); Gordon, George Huntly, 1795 or 1796-1868 (Addressee); Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862 (Addressee); Kitchener, F. E. (Francis Elliott), 1838-1915 (Addressee); L'Estrange, Thomas, 1822-1910 (Addressee); Ollier, Charles, 1788-1859 (Addressee); Parker, John William, 1792-1870 (Addressee); Payne, J. Bertrand (James Bertrand), 1833-1898 (Addressee); Peacock, Jane, 1789-1851 (Addressee); Peacock, Sarah, 1754-1832 (Addressee); Roberts, William (Surgeon) (Addressee); Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Addressee); Shelley, Timothy, Sir, 1753-1844 (Addressee); Whitton, William, 1763?-1832 (Addressee); English, English & Becks (Addressee); Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866 (Author); Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866 (Addressee)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1792 - 1863
Library locations: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle; Shelf locator: Pforz MS
Topics: Authors, English -- 19th century; Cooking, English -- 19th century; English essays -- 19th century; English poetry -- 19th century; Logbooks; Poets, English -- 19th century
Genres: Correspondence; Poetry; Epitaphs; Recipes
Notes: Biographical/historical: Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), English satirical novelist and poet.; Citation/reference: Many of the manuscripts listed in this guide have been included in Shelley and his Circle, a multi-volume publication that presents selected manuscripts from the Pforzheimer Collection. Shelley and his Circle provides extensive descriptions of the manuscripts, along with commentary, textual analysis, and some facsimile reproductions. Items published in Shelley and his Circle, the 1924 Halliford Edition of Peacock's works, or Nicholas Joukovsky's Letters of Thomas Love Peacock are noted with reference.; Acquisition: This guide lists and describes the manuscript materials held by the Pforzheimer Collection that were created by Thomas Love Peacock. These materials have been acquired throughout the history of the Collection, and are kept on-site at the New York Public Library. The first Peacock manuscripts added to the Collection were letters: the letter to Claire Clairmont, acquired in 1920 through an Anderson Galleries auction, and the letter to Timothy Shelley, bought from Rosenbach and Company in 1926. Only a few additional Peacock manuscripts were accessioned until the 1948 acquisition of the Hogg Family Correspondence, which contained the letters from Peacock to Thomas Jefferson Hogg. A significant purchase of Peacock literary manuscripts came in 1949, with the acquisition of the papers belonging to Mrs. K. Hall-Thorpe, Peacock's great-granddaughter. By the 1957 death of Carl Pforzheimer I, the Collection held over sixty manuscripts in Peacock's hand. Under the auspices of the Pforzheimer Foundation, the Collection more than doubled its holdings in Peacock manuscripts, most notably with the 1980 purchase of over fifty manuscripts from the Arthur Houghton sale at Christie's. Since the Collection's move to The New York Public Library in 1986, only three manuscripts in Peacock's hand have been acquired.; Content: Processing information: Processed by Clare Needham, Charles Cuykendall Carter, and Timothy Gress, 2022.; Content: Many of the manuscripts listed in this guide have been included in Shelley and his Circle, a multi-volume publication that presents selected manuscripts from the Pforzheimer Collection. Shelley and his Circle provides extensive descriptions of the manuscripts, along with commentary, textual analysis, and some facsimile reproductions. Items published in Shelley and his Circle, the 1924 Halliford Edition of Peacock's works, or Nicholas Joukovsky's Letters of Thomas Love Peacock are noted with reference.
Physical Description: Extent: 154 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19895601; MSS Unit ID: 22385; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ccc5cf70-a418-013b-d523-0242ac110002