Laon and Cythna, Canto I.iii.7-I.v.9, and a cancelled stanza
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Title
Laon and Cythna, Canto I.iii.7-I.v.9, and a cancelled stanza
Collection
Percy Bysshe Shelley manuscript material
Series I. Writings
Poetry
Seven holograph fragments from Laon and Cythna
Names
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 (Author)
Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 (Signer)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Contributor)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1817-03-20 - 1817-10 (Inferred)
Library Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz MS
Shelf locator: Pforz MS (PBS 0094)
Shelf locator: Pforz MS (LH 0001)
Shelf locator: Pforz MS (MWS 0194)
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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 391: volume V, page 170
Content: Begins, "There is a pause - the sea birds that were gone / Into their caves to shriek, come forth to spy . . . ." Mounted to an album leaf with attestation note signed by Leigh Hunt (LH 0001). On the adjoining album leaf is mounted a single page of "MS Fragments of P. B. Shelley," written and signed by Mary Shelley (MWS 0194).
Date: Date created: [late March-October 1817]
Physical Description
Extent: 2 pages (single sheet)
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Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17040453
Archives ID: 19614
Archives EAD ID: 1746886
Archives Components ID: 1383048
Archives EAD ID: 1715615
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ea369480-4619-0134-9603-00505686d14e
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