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Holograph treatise, A Philosophical View of Reform

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

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Percy Bysshe Shelley manuscript material

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Series I. Writings

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Prose

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Title
Holograph treatise, A Philosophical View of Reform
Names
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Author)
Collection

Percy Bysshe Shelley manuscript material

Series I. Writings

Prose

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1819-11 - 1820-12 (Questionable)
Library locations
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz MS
Shelf locator: Pforz MS (PBS 0112)
Topics
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Philosophical View of Reform
Genres
Manuscripts
writings (documents)
Treaties
Essays
Sketches
Notes
Funding: Digitized through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
Citation/reference: Shelley and his Circle, SC 546: volume VI, page 961
Content: Begins, "those who imagine that their personal interest is directly or indirectly concerned in maintaining the power in which they are clothed by the existing institutions of English Goverment [sic] do not acknowledge the necessity of a mterial change in those institutions." Vellum binding covered with Shelley's ink drawings and calculations.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 volume (208 manuscript pages; 142 total leaves)
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17040453
MSS Unit ID: 19614
Archives EAD ID: 1746907
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1b93ba40-4619-0134-d0e0-00505686d14e
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Item timeline of events

  • 1792: Creator Born
  • 1819: Created (Approximate)
  • 1822: Creator Died
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Holograph treatise, A Philosophical View of Reform" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1819 - 1820. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b387e403-fbe3-7545-e040-e00a180628e8

Chicago/Turabian Format

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Holograph treatise, A Philosophical View of Reform" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b387e403-fbe3-7545-e040-e00a180628e8

APA Format

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. (1819 - 1820). Holograph treatise, A Philosophical View of Reform Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b387e403-fbe3-7545-e040-e00a180628e8

Wikipedia Citation

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Holograph treatise, A Philosophical View of Reform