| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | MS OGDEN/86 |
| Title | Shelley Manuscript |
| Date | 1820 |
| Description | Manuscript transcript of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ode to Naples', 1820, likely to have been made by Claire Clairmont (formerly attributed to Mary Shelley), with corrections in the hand of the author. |
| Extent | 4 folios |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |
| Acquisition | Part of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| Related Material | University College London Special Collections also holds a letter of Percy Bysshe Shelley to T J Hogg, 1814 (Ref: MS OGDEN 87); and his signature in a copy of Petrarch's 'Canzoniere', volume ii (London, 1778) (Ref: OGDEN A283).
Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts holds another copy of Shelley's 'Ode to Naples': cf Vol 4: a facsimile of Bodleian MS Shelley d 1 including ... Ode to Naples, ed E B Murray (1988). Other correspondence and papers of Percy Bysshe Shelley are held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections; Keats House, Hampstead, London; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts; Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections; Eton College; and, in the USA, New York Public Library; the Carl H Pforzheimer Library, New York; the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Harvard University, Houghton Library; Duke University, William R Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina; University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library; Huntington Library, San Marino, California; University of California Library, Berkeley. Correspondence and papers of Mary Shelley are held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections; Keats House, Hampstead, London; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts; Cambridge University, Trinity College Library; National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division; and, in the USA, New York Public Library; the Carl H Pforzheimer Library, New York; Harvard University, Houghton Library; Duke University, William R Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina; Washington University Library, Department of Special Collections, St Louis, Missouri; University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections; Huntington Library, San Marino, California. For further details see the National Register of Archives. |
| FindingAids | Calm catalogue |
| PublnNote | For the argument that this manuscript is in Clairmont's hand, not Mary Shelley's, see "Claire Clairmont's Fair Copy of Shelley's 'Ode to Naples': A Rediscovered Manuscript"
Author(s): Michael Rossington
Source: The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 56, No. 223 (Feb., 2005), pp. 59-89
Published by: Oxford University Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3661190 |