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Description: The Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings, correspondence and documents. The writings include some original verses; his school exercise book from Oxford, which contains a holograph poem "Oh wretched mortal" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (PBS 0215); and a heavily annotated copy of his published travel book Two Hundred and Nine Days. Correspondents include his friend B. Hoskyns Abrahall, a commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy; Leight Hunt, the poet, journalist, and critic; Thomas Love Peacock, the satirical novelist and poet; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the novelist; Percy Bysse Shelley, the poet; and a few others. Documents include an 1816 passport, and a legacy discharge document for his bequest under Percy Bysshe Shelley's will.
Names: Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862 (Creator); Abrahall, Theophilus Bennet Hoskyns, 1802?-1874 (Addressee); Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di, 1800-1873 (Addressee); Hogg, John, 1761-1823 (Addressee); Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862 (Addressee); Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 (Addressee); Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Baron, 1772-1863 (Author); Meredith, Mary Ellen, 1821-1861 (Addressee); Newton, John Frank, 1766-1837 (Addressee); Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866 (Addressee); Shelley, Elizabeth Pilfold Shelley, Lady, 1763-1846 (Addressee); Shelley, Elizabeth, 1794-1831 (Addressee); Shelley, Harriet, 1795-1816 (Addressee); Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Addressee); Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Addressee); Williams, Jane, 1798-1884 (Addressee); English, English & Becks (Addressee); Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862 (Author); Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1810 - 1862
Library locations: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle; Shelf locator: Pforz MS
Topics: Biographers -- Great Britain -- 19th century; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Friends and associates; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Friends and associates; Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862; Shorthand -- Taylor -- Manuscripts -- Specimens
Genres: Correspondence; Documents; Manuscripts
Notes: Biographical/historical: Thomas Jefferson Hogg, friend and biographer of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.; Citation/reference: Some of the Pforzheimer Collection's Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscripts are published in Shelley and his Circle (SC). This finding aid lists volume and page number references for all manuscripts that appear in SC.; Content: Custodial history: The bulk of the Pforzheimer Collection's Thomas Jefferson Hogg manuscripts – including the letters to B. Hoskyns Abrahall – were acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at the sale of the library of H. Buxton Forman, the English bibliographer and literary forger, on April 26, 1920. A few additional Hogg manuscripts were acquired in the 1920s. Another major Hogg acquisition came in June, 1948, through Sotheby's, with the purchase of a large collection of letters which had remained in Hogg's family, including Hogg's letters to Thomas Love Peacock, but also important letters to Hogg from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley (see separate finding aids). After Pforzheimer's death in 1957 acquisitions continued under the auspices of the Pforzheimer Foundation; Hogg's Oxford exercise book was acquired in 1961, directly from his descendants. Since the Collection's 1986 move to the New York Public Library, only a handful of Hogg manuscripts have been acquired. This finding aid will be updated as new acquisitions are made.; Content: Processing information: Finding aid created and imported into ArchivesSpace by Timothy Gress, August 2023.; Content: Related material: The Pforzheimer Collection holds some seventy-five volumes, mostly classical, from Hogg's personal library, including a six-volume set of Edmund Spenser's Collected Works (1750) inscribed to Hogg from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (MWS 0426). The Collection also holds a copy of his 1813 novel Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff and several copies of his 1858 biography The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. In addition, there are several holograph letters addressed to Hogg from Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Percy Bysshe Shelley and a small handful of holograph letters written by other members of the Hogg family.
Physical Description: Extent: 123 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Pforz MS; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21518777; MSS Unit ID: 24815; Archives collections id: archives_collections_24815; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a949b770-4f3f-013c-c453-0242ac110003