| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | Item |
| Reference Number | MS OGDEN/87 |
| Title | Shelley Letter |
| Date | 1814 |
| Description | Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to T J Hogg, 16 Mar 1814. |
| Extent | 2 folios |
| AdminHistory | Born, 1792; poet; educated at University College Oxford, where he became friends with Thomas Jefferson Hogg, 1810; they jointly produced a pamphlet of burlesque poetry purporting to be written by Margaret Nicholson (the failed assassin of George III), 1811; the pair were expelled from the university following Shelley's production of a syllabus on the 'Necessity of Atheism' and Hogg's defence of him; their friendship, although subject to some vagaries, endured; died, 1822. Hogg later produced a 'Life' of Shelley (1858). |
| 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 manuscript transcript of Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ode to Naples', 1820, made by Mary Shelley, with his own manuscript corrections (Ref: MS OGDEN 86); his signature in a copy of Petrarch's 'Canzoniere', volume ii (London, 1778) (Ref: OGDEN A283); a facsimile of Shelley and Hogg's 'Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson' (Ref: MS OGDEN 57); letters, 1830-1834, from Thomas Jefferson Hogg to Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux (Ref: BROUGHAM HB).
Correspondence and papers of 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 T J Hogg are held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts; Cambridge University, Trinity College Library; New York Public Library. For further details see the National Register of Archives. |
| FindingAids | Handlist at University College London Special Collections. |
| PublnNote | The letter was printed with minor differences in F L Jones, The letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1964), volume 1, no 253. |