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
Access:
Open for research.
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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
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 See also Shelley and Mary (1882) in the Center’s Library, a printed collection of the whole of the unpublished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.
