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1. Zweig MS 137

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 137
Title:
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett: Newspaper article in the series 'Books and Persons', including a review of Conflicts by Stefan Zweig, written for the Evening Standard; London, 20 February 1928 (see f. 1)
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft. The review relates to novels by three European writers newly published in English translation. Begins: 'Not long since I saw an advertisement of [deletion] a novel . . .' Ends: ‘It has sparks of the divine fire’ The works discussed are: Thomas Raucat, L'Honorable Partie de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:
1 item

2. Zweig MS 138

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 138
Title:
George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron: 'Note to the lines where Capel Lofft is mentioned'
Scope & Content:
Autograph fair copy. The prose note explains the allusion to Capel Lofft in Byron's 'Hints from Horace' (published 1811), lines 693-696: 'Hark to those notes, narcotically soft! / The cobber-laureats sing to Capel Lofft! /Till, lo! that modern Midas, as he hears, / Adds an ell-growth to his egre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1811
Extent:
1 item

3. Zweig MS 141

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 141
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLI. Charles Darwin: fragment of 'Insectivorous Plants', with some mathematical calculations relating to meridians on the verso; n.d. Draft. Published in 1875. See The Works of Charles Darwin, ed. P. H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman, vol. 24 (1989), p. 307. f. 1. 165...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Zweig MS 149

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 149
Title:
Benjamin Franklin: Letter to William Strahan; Philad[elphia] 12 Feb. 1744/5
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Signed. Begins: ‘Sir I receiv'd your Favour p[er] Mr Chew dayed Sept. 10. and a Copy via Boston.’ Ends: ‘Your obliged humble Servant B Franklin’ Franklin acknowledges receipt from Strahan of 'Mr Middleton's Pieces' and places new orders: a range of pamphlets for friends of differ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1745]
Extent:
1 item

5. Zweig MS 163

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 163
Title:
John Keats: Fragment of poem 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
Scope & Content:
Autograph first draft. Fifty-seven lines (including deletions) from the 4th leaf of the poem. The whole work consists of 242 lines in rhyming couplets, drafted on ten leaves. Lines 87-106 of the final version are drafted on the recto, and lines 123-150 on the verso of this fragment. The gap be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1816]
Extent:
1 item

6. Zweig MS 168

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 168
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Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVIII. John Locke; Latin epitaph on Descartes; n.d. Fair copy. Accompanied by an engraving of Descartes by J. B. Grateloup after F. Hals. ff. 4. 271 x 212mm. overall. Epitaph (f. 4) 94 x 75mm; engraving (f. 2 pasted down) 103 x 72mm. includes: f. 2 Jean Baptis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

7. Zweig MS 172

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 172
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXII. Thomas Moore: poem 'The Last Rose of Summer'; circa 1813. Fair copy. See The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq., (Paris: Galignani, 1820), vol. iv, pp. 121-122. ff. 2. 199 x 165mm. Poetry ENGLISH: Thomas Moore, poet: Poem 'The Last Rose of Summer' by Thomas Moor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1813
Extent:
1 item

8. Zweig MS 177

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 177
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Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXVII. Alexander Pope: poem addressed to the Earl of Oxford; circa 1728. See The Twickenham Edition of the Works of Alexander Pope, vol. VI, 'Minor Poems', ed. N. Ault (1954), p. 294. ff. 3. 201 x 165mm. (f. 3) and 101 x 114mm. (f. 2) pasted down on sheet 367 x ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1728
Extent:
1 item

9. Zweig MS 183

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 183
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXXIII. Madame Manon-Jeanne Roland de la Platière: 'Rêveries Philosophiques', 'Pensées Détachées' and 'Lettres à Madame P.'; 18th cent. French. ff. ii+32. Binding of red morocco, gold-tooled by Rivière and Son. 244 x 196mm. Rivière and Son; bookbinders: Bindings...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Zweig MS 188

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 188
Title:
Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Lines to —’, a sonnet to Lord Byron: autograph fair copy; headed ‘Jan 22.’ [composed 1821 or 1822]
Scope & Content:
Begins: ‘If I esteemed you less, Envy would kill / Pleasure’.Ends: ‘The worm beneath the sod / May lift itself in worship to the God’. A sonnet of fourteen lines, divided into two stanzas of eight and six lines. The addressee or subject of the sonnet was first publicly identified as Lord Byron ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1821-1822
Extent:
1 item (1 folio; f. 1v blank)