The Abinger Collection of Godwin/Shelley papers

Item author: William Godwin; his wife Mary Wollstonecraft; their daughter Mary Shelley; and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley
Item date: Early 19th century
Grant Value: 20,000
Item cost: 3,850,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2004
Item institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

As the residue of the Shelley family archive, the Abinger collection comprises the papers of William Godwin and his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft; incoming letters and other papers of their daughter, Mary Shelley, and of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley; and further material of their family and circles.

Item Provenance
By descent in the Shelley family to the 8th Lord Abinger