BIB_ID
131755
Accession number
MA 500
Creator
Shelley, Frances Winckley, Lady, 1787-1873
Display Date
1816-1846
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (ca. 110 p.), bound ; 9.4 x 13.1 cm
Notes
Entries are written on the rectos and most versos of 55 leaves. Followed by ca. 50 blank leaves.
Inscribed "Fanny / Vienna / Oct. 1816" on first page.
Shelved for many years in drawer of Pierpont Morgan's desk in the West Room of The Morgan Library & Museum.
Inscribed "Fanny / Vienna / Oct. 1816" on first page.
Shelved for many years in drawer of Pierpont Morgan's desk in the West Room of The Morgan Library & Museum.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan in 1907.
Summary
Many entries are in French in the form "Mon premier est... / mon second est... / mon tout est..." Includes an autograph manuscript of Sir Walter Scott's poem "Jock o'Hazeldean," dated Abbotsford, 1819 July 24.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (11.5 cm)
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