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The Abinger Papers

Correspondence and papers of the Godwin and Shelley families, chiefly William Godwin (1756-1836), philosopher and author; with the correspondence and papers of his family, including his wife, the novelist and essayist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97); daughter, the author Mary Shelley (1797-1851); her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); and Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's son Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-89), and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley (d. 1899)
Extents: 206 shelfmarks
Dates: 1780-1937
Collection

Copies of old Cornish plays

Copies of old Cornish plays.
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: written in more than one hand, perhaps late in the 17th and early in the 18th century
Single Item

Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays

Photocopy of 'Prelude for the Opening of the Theatre Royal Covent Garden September 11th 1792', Catalogue of the Larpent Plays.
Shelfmark: MS. Facs. d. 144, fols. 1-14
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: 1792, 1939
Single Item

Volume of 18th-century transcripts of verse and prose in Cornish, most of the items with a translation into English

Volume of 18th-century transcripts of verse and prose in Cornish, most of the items with a translation into English.
Shelfmark: MS. Cornish c. 3
Extents: 174 Leaves
Dates: 18th century

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  • Indexed subjects: 18th century X
  • Language: English X

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Indexed subjects
19th century 2
20th century 2
Cornwall (England) 2
English literature 2
Literature 2
Poetry 2
17th century 1
Authors 1
Biography -- 18th century 1
Biography -- 19th century 1
Diaries 1
Feminism 1
Fiction 1
Liberalism 1
Political science -- Philosophy 1
Romanticism 1
 
Indexed names
Bishop | Elizabeth | b 1763 | nee Wollstonecraft 1
Gilbert | Davies | 1767-1839 | Cornish engineer, author and politician 1
Godwin | Mary Jane | 1768-1841 | formerly Clairmont | nee de Vial | translator and bookseller 1
Godwin | William | 1756-1836 | philosopher and novelist 1
Godwin | family 1
Johnson | Jane | 1798-1884 | nee Cleveland | x Williams | x Hogg 1
Jordan | William | fl. 18th century | Cornish dramatist 1
Macmillan| Daniel | 1 Feb. 1886–6 Dec. 1965 | Chairman of Macmillan Holdings, Ltd, since 1964 1
Shelley | Jane | d 1899 | nee Gibson | 1st wife of 3rd Baronet | x St. John 1
Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 1797-1851 | née Godwin | writer 1
Shelley | Percy Bysshe | 1792-1822 | poet 1
Shelley | Sir | Percy Florence | 1819-1889 | 3rd Baronet 1
Shelley | family 1
Stokes | Whitley | 1830-1909 | Irish lawyer and Celtic scholar 1
Wollstonecraft | Everina | 1765-1841 1
Wollstonecraft | Mary | 1759-1797 | later Godwin | novelist and essayist 1
Wollstonecraft | family 1
 
Language
Cornish 2