Archive Reference (shelfmark): Ashley MS A17-5768 / Language: English / Level: [36] Series - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1775-7,A1779,B1780-1,A1783-4,A1786-7,1788,A1790,B1792-5,A1796,B1800,B4306,B4307,B4310,5055-6
Title:: Letters (31) from Robert Louis Stevenson to Edmund Gosse; 16 April 1879-1 Dec. 1894. A1775, 1776, A1779, 1788, A1790, B1794, B1795, A1796, B1800, B4307, B4310 and 5055, letters II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, have envelopes. Stevenson and Gosse probably met in 1873 or 1874, and remained on intimate terms until the end of Stevenson's life - indeed, the last letter in this collection (5055, ff. 28-31, of which ff. 28b, 29b-30b are in the hand of his step-daughter, Mrs Isobel Strong) was written onl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: 16 Apr 1879-1 Dec 1894
Extent:: 23 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1385,B1432,A1436,A1440-4,1446,A1636,A1853,A1870,A1871,A1940,B3864,A3889-90,A4206,A5132,B5255
Title:: Letters (84) and one postcard from W. M. Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne; 2 Jan. 1866-20 Sept. 1906. Also included are a letter to Swinburne from Lucy Rossetti, [April?] 1876 (1446, ff. 104-105), and a letter from W. M. Rossetti, not to Swinburne, but possibly to J. C. Hotten, 11 Jan. 1867 (1446, f. 18). The letters in 1446, ff. 9-10b, 52, 52b, 102-103b, and 154, 154b, and in A1871 are imperfect. Vol. A IV, f. 33 is not part of the letter on ff. 31-32b, but is the missing portion of the second l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 2 Jan 1866-20 Sep 1906
Extent:: 20 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 36 (1)-(2)
Title:: 'The Virgin and the Fool': a parody by Frederick Britten Austin and Lambert Williams of Elinor Glyn, 'The Damsel and the Sage'; 1903. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, written on both sides of twenty six leaves of an ocatavo notebook, and on one side only of another (f. 28). At the beginning is a note (f. 1b) by Austin stating that he and Williams shared the composition of the skit, and that the present MS. was copied out by Williams to serve as printer's copy; 36 (2). The MS. is ac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 71, B2335, A4688, B4691
Title:: Letters (8) from J. M. Barrie to Clement Shorter, three with envelopes; 27 Jan. 1900-1 Sept. 1924. One letter (B4691) concerns Barrie's authorship of a short story 'A Lady's Shoe', but the others are chiefly excuses for refusing invitations from Shorter. For a further letter from Barrie to Shorter see 5750. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 16; [viii, p. 53]; ix, p. 11. MS. 71 is octavo; ff. i+10.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 27 Jan 1900-1 Sep 1924
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 270, A1875, B3559
Title:: Letters (3) from Robert Browning to A. C. Swinburne; 8 June 1869-5 Feb. 1881. With the exception of B3559 which deals chiefly with the publication of John Forster, Walter Savage Landor, 1869, the letters are printed in T. L. Hood, Letters of Robert Browning Collected by T. J. Wise, 1933. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 126; iii, p. 95; [vi, pp. 107-108].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 8 Jun 1869-5 Feb 1881
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 394, 2819 (1)-(4)
Title:: Five Diaries of Clara Mary Jane Clairmont; 14 Aug. - 9 Nov. 1814, 19 Jan. - 22 April 1818, 7 March 1819 - 1 Aug. 1820, 5 Aug. 1820 - 20 Sept. 1822, 24 May 1825 - 2 Jan. 1826. The diaries cover the period of P. B. Shelley's and Mary Godwin's elopement, accompanied by Claire, as she called herself, their residence in London, their departure for Italy, and residence there. Unfortunately there is a gap covering the period of Shelley's death. There are many references to Byron. The latest diary w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 1814-1826
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 629, 637
Title:: Two Letters, the second with envelope, from Charles Dickens to J. H. Leigh Hunt, the first describing the delights of the Eel Pie House on Twickenham Island, the second recounting his recent movements, his family affairs, and his impressions of Genoa; 12 May 1840, 31 Jan. 1855. Printed in The Nonesuch Dickens, Letters, 1938, vol. i, pp. 256-257, vol. ii, pp. 621-622. Ashley Library Catalogue, ii, pp. 38-42. Octavo; ff. ii+2, ii+3.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1840-1855
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 906, 907, 4855
Title:: 'The Story Of Rimini': a poem by J. H. Leigh Hunt; [1811-1816?]. 906 is an autograph fair copy, with pencil comments by Lord Byron, and occasional corrections by Hunt, of portions of Cantos II and III, written on one side only of thirty octavo leaves of white wove paper, and on both sides of another (f. 1). Watermark (ff. 1-21) 'J Green / 1814'. In a note on f. 4 of this MS. Hunt states that Canto II and a small part of Canto III were composed while he was in prison [3 Feb. 1813-3 Feb. 1815]...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:: [1811-1816?]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1005, B1005
Title:: Volume of Poems by Charles Lloyd; 1795-1800. Autograph fair copies, with additions and corrections, written on one side only of thirty-nine octavo leaves of white laid paper and on both sides of a further thirteen. Watermark '[J Larking?] / 1795'. The lines on f. 52b are said to be in the hand of the poet's wife Sophia. On ff. 8b, 22b, 29b, 32b, 37b, 39b, 42b and 43b are autograph comments by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to whom Lloyd submitted the poems for his opinion. The greater part of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1795-1800
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1145, 3637
Title:: Letters (4) from George Meredith to Edward Clodd, containing, among other matters, an expression of his admiration for Walter Besant, and an opinion on Edward FitzGerald; 2 Jan. 1893-3 Oct. 1906. Printed in The Letters of George Meredith, ed. C. L. Cline, ii, iii, 1970, pp. 1115, 1311, 1518, 1570. Ashley Library Catalogue, x, pp. 150-151. 1145. Octavo; ff. i+6. 3637. Octavo; ff. ii+2.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 2 Jan 1893-3 Oct 1906
Extent:: 2 items

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