KEATS, LEIGH HUNT AND SHELLEY
Manuscripts from the Additional, Ashley, Egertoon and Zweig Collections at the British Library

Contents of Reels

KEATS MATERIAL

REEL 1

1. Add 37000 – Hyperion, poem

2. Eg 2780 - Pot of Basil, St Agnes & other poems

3. Ashley 3262 – John & Maria Gisborne journal

4. Ashley 4740 – Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray

5. Ashley 4742 – Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray

6. Ashley 4743 – Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray

7. Ashley 4744 – Letter from Lord Byron to John Cam Hobhouse

8. Ashley 4745 – Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray

9. Ashley 4746 – Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray

10. Ashley 4748 – Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray

11. Ashley 4870 Letter from John Keats to his sister Frances Mary (Fanny) Keats, describing the passing scene

12. Ashley 4747 – Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray

13. Ashley 4749 – Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray

14. Ashley 3475 - Letter from Joseph Severn to Mrs Brawne written while he was with John Keats during his last illness in Rome

15. Ashley 4872 - Letters (7) from Joseph Severn to Charles Armitage Brown, concerning John Keats, and in particular his gravestone

16. Ashley 3476 - Letter from Oscar Wilde to W. M. Rossetti, sending a monograph he had written

17. Add 34019 – Forty-two letters from John Keats, the poet, to his sister Fanny; 10 Sept. [1817]23 Aug. 1820] Holograph. Printed in Keats's Works

REEL 2

1. Ashley 976 – Swinburne letters

2. Add 45510 – Keats journal letter

3. Add 22130 - Miscellaneous autograph letters; 1702-1829, including those of Edmund Burke, ff10,12; George Washington, f16; Napoleon, ff42,88; John Keats, f91; Percy Shelley, f94; and Lord Byron, f94.

REEL 3

1. Ashley 975 - Letter from Robert Browning to Harry Buxton Forman

2. Ashley 1410 - Four Notebooks of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871-1881

3. Ashley 3351 - 'At a House in Hampstead’ (Sometime the Dwelling of John Keats) a poem by Thomas Hardy; July 1920

4. Ashley 3477 – John Keats, a sonnet by D G Rossetti

5. Ashley 3860 – Shelley, a sonnet by D G Rossetti

6. Ashley 4869 - Letter from John Keats to J. H. Leigh Hunt, discussing the calling of poet, and Shakespeare's Christianity

7. Ashley A979 - Two Letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the first to W. T. Watts

8. Ashley 4750 - Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray

9. Ashley 5160 - Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray, criticising the work of John Keats; 4 Nov. 1820

10. Ashley 5161 - Letter from Lord Byron to John Murray, criticising the work of John Keats; 9 Nov. 1820

11. Ashley A1423 - Letters (5) from D. G. Rossetti to Harry Buxton Forman, discussing the poems of John Keats, and in particular the 'Eve of St. Mark'.

12. Ashley A3480 - Two Letters from Sir Sidney Colvin to T. J. Wise, concerning the biography and bibliography of John Keats; 3 Dec. 1917, 11 Jan. 1918

13. Ashley A977 - Letter from Sidney Colvin to T. J. Wise concerning the fate of Harry Buxton Forman's library

14. Ashley B3471 - Letter from H. Clement Notcutt to T. J. Wise concerning the sources for the text of John Keats' 'Endymion'

15. Zweig 163 - John Keats: fragment of poem 'I stood tiptoe upon a little hill' circa 1817

REEL 4

1. Add 33516 A-C - The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Edinburgh, 1782, fourteen vols., bound in seven), owned by Charles Cowden Clarke and with a sonnet by John Keats, beg. ‘This pleasant Tale is like a little copse’ written in a blank space at the end of ‘The Floure and the Leafe’ in vol. xii. (p. 104).

REEL 5

1. Add 33516 D-G - The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Edinburgh, 1782, fourteen vols., bound in seven), owned by Charles Cowden Clarke and with a sonnet by John Keats, beg. ‘This pleasant Tale is like a little copse’ written in a blank space at the end of ‘The Floure and the Leafe’ in vol. xii. (p. 104).

LEIGH HUNT MATERIAL

REEL 6

1. Add 20081 – ‘Monthly Mirror’ correspondence

2. Add 38105 – ‘Look to your morals’ – A comedy

3. Add 44085 – Miscellaneous Letters – including items by W S Gilbert, f48; and Leigh Hunt, f54.

REEL 7

1. Add 33515 – Autograph Poems, etc. of James Henry Leigh Hunt, including a sonnet to John Keats.

2. Add 37210 - POEMS and translations by James Henry Leigh Hunt, with letters addressed to him by Thomas Moore

3. Add 38107 - "A DAY WITH THE READER”: an unfinished poem in blank verse by Leigh Hunt.

4. Add 38106 – ‘Lover’s Amazements’ – A comedy

REEL 8

1. Add 38108 – Correspondence of Leigh Hunt; 1807-1859.

2. Add 38109 – Correspondence of Leigh Hunt; 1807-1859.

REEL 9

1. Add 38110 - Correspondence of Leigh Hunt; 1807-1859.

REEL 10

1. Add 38111 - Correspondence of Leigh Hunt; 1807-1859.

REEL 11

1. Add 38523 - Correspondence of Leigh Hunt.

2. Add 38524 - Correspondence of Leigh Hunt.

REEL 12

1. Add 46202 – Papers relating to James Henry Leigh Hunt and his family; 1866-1907

2. Add 46879 – Zambelli Pocket Book

3. Add 47671 – Correspondence and papers of Thornton Leigh Hunt, journalist, and of his family, partly relating to his father, James Henry Leigh Hunt.

4. Add 39168 – Miscellaneous and papers, 1645- 1910, including Wordsworth's sonnet entitled ‘Thoughts of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland’, f92; J Blanco White’s ‘Night and Death. A Sonnet’ addressed to S. T. Coleridge, Esq, f93; ‘O Star of France,’ poem by Walt Whitman, f95; Four letters from B[enjamin] R[obert] Haydon, painter, to J. Hutchings of Blakesley, Towcester, on his proposal to take up painting as a profession, 15 Feb.-5 May, 1845. f. 102; and an account of the loss of the Don Juan and the cremation of the poet Shelley and his friend Edward Ellerker Williams, by Edward John Trelawny with interlinear autograph corrections by Leigh Hunt and a note on f. 179 in Byron's hand explaining his absence during the actual burning of Shelley, 8 July-16 Aug. 1822.

5. Ashley 2157 - Letter from William Makepeace Thackeray to J. H. Leigh Hunt, thanking him for his review in the Spectator of Thackeray's first public lecture.

6. Ashley 2782 - Letter from Thomas Carlyle to J. H. Leigh Hunt; 29 Oct. 1833

7. Ashley 5021 - Letter from P. B. Shelley to Mary Godwin, written on the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet Westbrook; 16 Dec. 1816.

8. Ashley 629 - Two Letters, the second with envelope, from Charles Dickens to J. H. Leigh Hunt, the first describing the delights of the Eel Pie House on Twickenham Island.

9. Ashley 905 – ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’ – poem by Leigh Hunt.

10. Ashley 906 – ‘The Story of Rimini’ – poem by Leigh Hunt.

11. Ashley 915 – Account of Shelley’s life and death by Hunt.

12. Ashley 2078 - Letter from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to J. H. Leigh Hunt, chiefly concerning the provision of autobiographical details for S. C. Hall

REEL 13

1. Ashley 911 – 'To gather flowers, one summer day' by J. H. Leigh Hunt - poem

2. Ashley 912 – 'Robin Hood a Child' 'Robin Hood's Flight' 'Robin Hood an Outlaw' three poems by J. H. Leigh Hunt

3. Ashley 916 – ‘Venetian song’ – poem by Leigh Hunt.

4. Ashley 920 – ‘The Shewe of Faire Seeming’ – poem by Leigh Hunt.

5. Ashley 4855 – ‘The Story of Rimini’ – poem by Leigh Hunt.

6. Ashley 1386 – Christina Rossetti letters - to various correspondents.

7. Ashley 1581 - Preface to P. B. Shelley's pamphlet ‘A Proposal for putting Reform to the vote,’ 1817, by J. H. Leigh Hunt

8. Ashley 4856 - Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to his sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent, announcing the death of P. B. Shelley; 20 July 1822.

9. Ashley 4857 - Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to Horatio Smith, giving an account of the death of P. B. Shelley; 25 July 1822

10. Ashley 5741 - Two Letters from J. H. Leigh Hunt to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Kent, in the earlier (ff. 1-2b) asking for his books, magazines, copy of Elia, needles, thread, penknife etc.

11. Ashley A2528 - Letter from Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to J. H. Leigh Hunt, chiefly thanking him for his praise of her Aurora Leigh, 1856; 6 Oct. 1857.

12. Ashley A3396 - Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to his daughter Jacintha (Mrs Cheltnam) written from Ewell

13. Ashley A3398 - Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to his wife Marianne, written from Ewell (see A3396) chiefly discussing an article intended for the Edinburgh Review.

14. Ashley A4144 - Letters (3) from John Cordy Jeaffreson to T. J. Wise, concerning the possible acquisition by Wise from the children of Leigh Hunt

15. Ashley A4133 - Letter from John Chalk Claris to J. H. Leigh Hunt, chiefly describing his grief at the death of his wife

16. Ashley A913 - Letter, with envelope, from J. H. Leigh Hunt to R. H. Horne, offering to review Horne's Judas Iscariot, 1848, in the Examiner; 28 Oct. 1848

17. Ashley A918 - Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to William Howitt, thanking him for his pen-portrait of Hunt in The People's Journal, 1846

18. Ashley B3053 - Letter from J. H. Leigh Hunt to R. H. Horne, concerning a proposal by Horne that they collaborate in writing a play

19. Ashley B3667 - Letter from Alexander Mitchell to T. J. Wise, sending him a copy of Mitchell's A Bibliography of The Writings of Leigh Hunt, 1931

20. Ashley B4107 - Letter from Richard Garnett to T. J. Wise, pointing out errors in Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to J. H. Leigh Hunt, 1984, edited by Wise; 31 May 1895

HONE MATERIAL

21. Add 40120 - HONE PAPERS. Correspondence of William Hone, consisting chiefly of letters addressed to him, with a few from Hone himself; 1801-1840.

REEL 14

1. Add 40108 – HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

2. Add 40109 – HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

3. Add 40110- HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

4. Add 40111- HONE Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

5. Add 40112- HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

6. Add 40113- HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

(Hone Collection chiefly consists of notes and transcripts from printed books, largely in Hone's autograph.)

REEL 15

1. Add 40114 - HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

2. Add 40115 HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

3. Add 40116 HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

4. Add 40117 HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

5. Add 40118 HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation

6. Add 40121 –Autobiographical notes by William Hone, with some additional biographical material

REEL 16

1. Add 40122 - HONE, Collections by William Hone for a History of English Parody since the Reformation: Miscellaneous papers.

2-3. Add 40856 - Correspondence and papers of William Hone, 1813-1840. (Two versions).

4. Add 50746 - Correspondence and papers of William Hone and his family, etc. 1783-1864.

5. Add 41071 – Hone Papers, including a number of letters from Hone to John Childs, printer, of Bungay.

SHELLEY MATERIAL

REEL 17

1. Add 43803 – 'THE LIFE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY' by Thomas Jefferson Hogg

2. Add 43804 – 'THE LIFE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY' by Thomas Jefferson Hogg

REEL 18

1. Add 35251 - Miscellaneous original letters, including multiple sources describing Shelley’s death and subsequent cremation.

2. Add 36878 – Miscellaneous letters and papers, including a letter by Browning and another by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Moore, giving reasons for the suppression of the first edition of Laon and Cythan, and referring to a book recently published anonymously by his wife (the History of a Six Weeks' Tour, which Shelley here states to have been written some years previously), and to another literary secret which she has (presumably Frankenstein); 16 Dec. 1817.

3. Add 37232 - Miscellaneous original letters, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning's last poem, ‘The North and the South’, f51; Stanzas by Percy Bysshe Shelley, ',When the lamp is shattered,’ f76; and Two letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to - Pryce, junior (an undergraduate), on the evidences of Christianity; 14 Apr. 1816 and n. d. f. 171.

4. Add 37496 – Correspondence of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Miss Elizabeth Hitchener; 5 June, 1811-18 June, 1812

5. Add 45102 - Miscellaneous letters and papers, including Papers of Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, f19; Letter from Charles Dickens to Thomas Carlyle, requesting permission to dedicate the novel Hard Times to Carlyle; Boulogne, 13 July 1854, f77; and Two forgeries of autographs of Percy Bysshe Shelley, f150.

6. Ashley B1648 - Letters (4) from H. S. Salt to T. J. Wise as Secretary of the Shelley Society, concerning Salt's A Shelley Primer, 1887.

7. Ashley B1653 - Visiting Card of Professor Diocleziano Mancini, with a note of the gift of copies of his Percy Bysshe Shelley Note Biografiche, 1892, to the Shelley Society.

8. Ashley B3595 - Two Letters from Frederick Locker-Lampson to T. J. Wise, thanking him for sending Locker-Lampson copies of the Shelley Society publications Adonais, 1886.

9. Ashley B4113 – W M Rossetti, notes on Percy Bysshe Shelley poems.

10. Ashley B4117 - Letters (5) from Roger Ingpen to T. J. Wise, concerning his forthcoming edition of Shelley's letters.

11. Ashley B4152 - Cheque drawn by James Stanley Little and F. J. Furnivall, of the Shelley Society, in favour of William Christian Selle in the sum of ten guineas; 20 Dec. 1886.

12. Ashley B4166 - Letter from William Tyas Harden to T. J. Wise, suggesting that copies of An Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley by Robert Browning, 1888, edited by Harden.

REEL 19

1. Add 43805 – Miscellaneous papers of Jane Williams (Shellev's 'Miranda'), wife of Edward Ellerker Williams (d. 1822) and (1827) of Thomas Jefferson Hogg; 1819-1875. Includes autograph notes by Shelley suggesting amendments to E. E. Williams's unpublished play 'The Promise', and an anonymous literary fragment descriptive of the love of 'lanthe' for 'Edward.

2. Add 64434 - Shelley's copy of L. Annaei Senecae Philosophi Opera, quae exstant omnia: a Justo Lipsio emendata et scholijs illustrata -second edition.

3. Add 65182 – Edward John Trelawny: three letters, with envelopes, to Claire Clairmont; 1875. Also included is a letter from Jane Shelley

4. Add 52361 – Captain Roberts’ letters regarding death of Percy Bysshe Shelley

5. Add 62535 – Shelley’s cremation - two letters from Edward Trelawny and one from Capt. Daniel Roberts

REEL 20

1-2. Ashley 394 – diaries of Clara Clairmont

3. Ashley 1407 - Ballads and Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

4-5. Ashley 3384 - Letter from Thomas Jefferson Hogg to Percy Bysshe Shelley, speaking of J. H. Leigh Hunt, of Sunday dinners with T. L. Peacock, and of the Gisbornes; 25 Dec. 1820

6. Ashley 5027 - Letter from P. B. Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock; Aug. [post-marked 7 Sept. 1819] Printed in F. L. Jones

7. Ashley 4040 - 'The Daemon of the World' a poem by P. B. Shelley; 1815

8. Ashley A4048 – ‘Laon and Cynthia’ - poem

9. Ashley A1644 - Letter from H. S. Salt to F. J. Furnivall, agreeing to read a paper on Julian and Maddalo to the Shelley Society

10. Ashley A4048 - Laon and Cynthia’ - poem

11. Ashley A4089 - Two Letters from Edward Dowden to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerning the printing by the Shelley Society of Review of Hogg's Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff By Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1886, edited by Wise

12. Ashley A4101 - Letter from Edward Dowden to T. J. Wise, chiefly concerned with ironically thanking Wise for a copy of Poems and Sonnets by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1887

13. Ashley A4141 - Letter from Charles W. Frederickson to T. J. Wise, commenting on the price, £52-10/ that Wise had paid for a copy of P. B. Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1820

14. Zweig 188 – ‘Lines to Byron’ - poem

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