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Literary notebooks and papers, correspondence and other papers, portraits and relics of Percy and Mary Shelley, with further materials of their family and circle, including earlier and contemporary estate documents of the Shelley family and related families, and later secondary materials.
The Abinger papers are the residue of the collection of Shelley family papers from Boscombe Manor (near Bournemouth, Dorset), the home of Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet of Castle Goring (1819-1889), and his wife Jane, Lady Shelley (1820-1899).
Shelley baronets of Castle Goring (1806) The Shelley baronetcy, of Castle Goring in the County of Sussex, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 March 1806 for Bysshe Shelley (1731–1815). Sir Bysshe Shelley was succeeded by his eldest son, Timothy, from his first marriage.
The Abinger papers are the residue of the collection of Shelley family papers from Boscombe Manor (near Bournemouth, Dorset), the home of Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet of Castle Goring (1819-1889), and his wife Jane, Lady Shelley (1820-1899).
Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819 -1889), third baronet, son of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the novelist. Associated NYPL catalog record Percy Florence Shelley manus cript material
For his political services, Bysshe Shelley was created a baronet in 1806, during the brief Whig-led administration. By that year the newly minted, avaricious Sir Bysshe Shelley had built Castle Goring, his large, gaudy mansion near Norfolk's Arundel Castle.
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Sir Percy Florence Shelley (1819-1889) was the only surviving child of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley née Godwin (1797-1851). He became the 3rd Baronet of Castle Goring on the death of his grandfather, Sir Timothy Shelley (1753-1844), the 2nd Baronet.
