Search

Language English Name Stevenson, Robert Louis, writer Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 39173

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 39173
Title:
"FABLES," by Robert Louis Stevenson. Holograph. First published in Longmans's Magazine, Aug. and Sept. 1895, Vol. 26, pp. 362, 472 ; afterwards appended to a new edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896) with an introduction by Sir Sidney Colvin. The first separate edition was publislied in 1902. Two of the fables, "The Cart-Horse and the Saddle-Horse" and "The Tadpole and the Frog," appear to have been printed from the corrected pencil versions ...
Scope & Content:
Robert Louis Stevenson, writer: Fables: bef. 1896.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[19th century]
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 40719

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 40719
Title:
TYPESCRIPT COPIES of twenty-eight letters from Robert Louis Stevenson (1856~1894) to his cousin Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson ("Bob."), painter and art critic (1847-1900); circ. 1864-1887, with a few undated ones at the end. With the exception of the third (f. 4), which concerns Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon, printed by A. S. W. Rosenbach, Catalogue of the Books and MSS. of R. L. Stevenson in the Library of the late Harry Elkins Widener, 1913, pp. 234-38, all the letters appear to be unpub...
Scope & Content:
Robert Louis Stevenson, writer: Letters to R. A. M. Stevenson: [circ. 1864]-1887.: Copies. includes: ff. i, iii Charles Churchill Osborne: Letters to Sir F. G. Kenyon: 1922.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 45680

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 45680
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:- A. Letter from Maxim Litvinoff, Plenipotentiary for Great Britain of the Russian People's Commissary for Foreign Affairs, to the Director of the British Museum, accompanying the gift of a replica of the Commissary's seal (Detached Seal CLXIV. 31) and other material; 24 July 1918. Typewritten. Signed. f. 1. B. Notes of children's rhymes, local superstitions, etc., collected mainly in Sheffield and elsewhere in co. York by Sidney Oldall Addy, antiquar...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Maksim Litvinov, Soviet diplomatist: Letter to the Director of the British Museum: 1918.: Typewritten. Signed.ff. 2-14 Sidney Oldall Addy, d 1933 antiquary: Children's rhymes, etc., collected by: n.d.ff. 2-14 Manners and Customs: Rhymes and riddles, mostly from Sheffield: 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-20th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 62906

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 62906
Title:
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: songs for voice and piano; 1901-1904. Autograph. Paper; ff. 12. 1. ff. 1-2v. 'Linden Lea' (words, William Barnes); 1901. First published in The Vocalist Series, No. 2 (1902). See Add. 57294 B for a sketch of this. 367 x 270mm. 2. ff. 3-6. 'Blackmore by the Stour' (words, William Barnes); 1902. First published in The Vocalist Series, No. 7 (1902). 367 x 270mm. 3. ff. 7-12. 'The Vagabond' and 'Bright is the Ring of Words', from 'Songs of Travel' (words, Robert L...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-6 Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM; composer: William Barnes, Rector of Came; poet: Songs for voice and piano by Ralph Vaughan Williams, to words by William Barnes: 1901, 1902: Autogr.ff. 7-12 Robert Louis Stevenson, writer: Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM; composer: Song...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1901-1904
Extent:
1 item