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The Shelley Family:

An Inventory of Its Documents at the Harry Ransom Center

Creator: Shelley Family
Title: Shelley Family Documents
Dates: 1609-1791
Extent: 7 oversize boxes (10.5 linear feet)
Abstract: Collection of indenture documents and entail proceedings pertaining to the Shelley family, 1609-1791.
Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-03810
Language: English
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Administrative Information


Preferred Citation Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Shelley Family Documents (Manuscript Collection MS-03810).
Acquisition: Purchases, 1966 (R3357 Cline) and 1976 (R7324 Pratt)
Processed by: Joan Sibley and Jana Zevnik, with assistance from Paul Sullivan, 2017
Repository:

Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Scope and Contents


The Shelley Family Documents consist of four legal documents pertaining to ancestors of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), the English Romantic poet and social reformer. The documents are indentures concerning the sale, lease, or entailment of land owned by these Shelley family members: Richard Shelley (1583-1623), Timothy Shelley (1700-1770), Sir Bysshe Shelley (1731-1815), and Sir Timothy Shelley (1753-1844).

Related Material


Additional Shelley-related materials at the Ransom Center are located in the Percy Bysshe Shelley Collection and the Richard Garnett Collection. See also Shelley and Mary (1882) in the Center’s Library, a printed collection of the whole of the unpublished poems, letters, diaries, and other documents in the hands of the Shelley family at the time of its production, edited by Sir Percy F. Shelley and Lady Jane Shelley (call number PR 5431 A4 1882). Locks of Percy Bysshe and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s hair are included in a scrapbook compiled by Leigh Hunt, a fellow English Romantic poet.
The New York Public Library holds a collection of 53 Shelley family legal documents in its Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

Index Terms


Subjects

Shelley, Bysshe, Sir, 1731-1815.
Shelley family.
Shelley, Richard, 1583-1623.
Shelley, Timothy, 1700-1770.
Shelley, Timothy, Sir, 1753-1844.

Document Types

Estate records.
Indentures.
Leases.
Land surveys.
Property records.

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