Manuscripts
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley letters to Sir John Bowring
- Description
- A collection of letters written by Mary Shelley from 1817 to 1849. The majority of the letters are to her stepsister Clair Clairmont (1798-1879), but there are also several letters written to English poet Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) and his wife, Marianne Hunt (1788-1857), and one letter to English publisher and author Charles Ollier (1788-1859). There is a bound volume containing letters from Mary Shelley to British politician, writer, and literary translator Sir John Bowring, from 1828 to 1837, while he was editor of the Westminster Review.
- Date
- 1828-1837
- Call number
- mssHM 2759-2770
- Provenance
- purchased from Baker sale, 1918.
- HM 2734-2758 came from the library of Edmund D. Brooks and were purchased from Anderson Galleries, 1919.
