Add MS 43805

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS OF JANE WILLIAMS (Shellev's 'Miranda'), wife of Edward Ellerker Williams (d. 1822) and (1827) of Thomas Jefferson Hogg; 1819-1875. The contents, for which see also Brit. Mus. Quart., ix, 1934-1935, pp. 78-79, include:-

(1) Autograph notes by Percy Bysshe Shelley suggesting amendments to E. E. Williams's unpublished play 'The Promise', endorsed (f. 2b) with stage directions by Williams himself; circ. 1821-1822. For other amendments by Shelley to the draft of Acts II, iv and v of this play, in Bodleian Library MS. Shelley adds. d. 3, see W. E. Peck, Shelley-His Life and Work, 1927, ii, PP. 365-380. ff. 1-2.

(2) An anonymous literary fragment descriptive of the love of 'lanthe' for 'Edward'; n.d. References to their house at Pugnano and their 'babes' suggest that an allusion may be intended to Edward Ellerker Williams and his wife Jane. On f. 5b, in the same hand, is an epitaph on 'Eugenio', in four rhymed couplets. The suggestion of Richard Garnett in a letter to the donor

dated 8 Nov. 1900 (now ff. i-ii of the present MS.), that the handwriting is that of Claire Clairmont, appears to be unfounded. ff. 3-5.

(3) Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to Jane Hogg; n.d. Autograph. ff. 6-7.

(4) 'Shelley at Oxford', by T. J. Hogg: the autograph MS. of the article published in the New Monthly Magazine, xxxv, 1832, pp. 321-330. Passages on ff. 11, 13, 14, 16, 17 have been altered in the printed version. ff. 8-29.

(5) Part of the translation of Goethe's Faust by Thomas James Arnold, F.S.A., son-in-law of T. J. Hogg, published in 1878. The text of the MS., which is dated 22 May 1875 (f. 32), corresponds to Scene 23, pp. 148-150, of the printed version. ff. 30-32. Paper; ff. ii + 35. Quarto. 1819-1875. Presented by John Wheeler Williams, Esq., grandson of Edward Ellerker and Jane Williams.