Earlier this week we took a very cool field trip to the New York Public Library's Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, one of the Library's many troves of rare printed treasures. The Pforzenheimer Collection is one the world's largest resources devoted to English Romantic writers like Percy Shelley, his wife Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Lord Byron, and curator Liz Denlinger has amassed a fantastic stash of some 25,000 letters, diaries, manuscripts and other materials (hair clippings, anyone?) from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Tucked into a quiet corridor outside of the main reading room, the collection is open to the public, though advance notification is required to examine most material. Denlinger gave us a tour of some of the collection's most exciting bits. And remember! Support your local library, right this way.