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91. Ashley MS 1146

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Ashley MS 1146
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Letter, with envelope, from George Meredith to T. J. Wise concerning the MS. of A.C. Swinburne's 'Laus Veneris'; 23 April 1909. This letter is stated by Wise to be the last written by Meredith. Printed in The Letters of George Meredith, ed. C. L. Cline, iii, 1970, p. 1695. Ashley Library Catalog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1909
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1 item

92. Ashley MS 1152

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Ashley MS 1152
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Letters (9), three with envelopes, from George Meredith to Clement Shorter; 17 May 1891-15 Nov. 1908. Among the subjects of the letters are Meredith's attitude to his reviewers, Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1891, and the review of it in the Spectator, and praise of Frederick Greenwood, the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1891-15 Nov 1908
Extent:
1 item

93. Ashley MS 1186

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Ashley MS 1186
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Letter from George Moore to A. C. Swinburne, expressing his admiration for Swinburne, mentioning Swinburne's reply to the attack made on him by Robert Buchanan in the article entitled 'The Fleshly School of Poetry' in The Contemporary Review for Oct. 1871, and sending his 'new book' [A Drama in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jul 1887
Extent:
1 item

94. Ashley MS 1218

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Ashley MS 1218
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Letters (4) from William Morris, three to A. C. Swinburne, and one (25 March 1892) to W. T. Watts[-Dunton]; 17 Nov. 1883-13 July 1896. In the letters to Swinburne Morris asks him to write something for 'Today', a projected socialist journal, to join the Democratic Federation, and to write a song...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1883-13 Jul 1896
Extent:
1 item

95. Ashley MS 1273

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Ashley MS 1273
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Letter, enclosing a fair copy (f. 2) of a poem entitled 'Scire Teipsum', from Coventry Patmore to Edmund Gosse; 25 July 1882. In the letter Patmore praises a poem by Gosse 'which expresses with the vigour and joy of experience the Catholic doctrine that virginity is not the denial but the consum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1882
Extent:
1 item

96. Ashley MS 1280

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Ashley MS 1280
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'The Four Ages of Poetry': an essay by Thomas Love Peacock; after 1826. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of thirty octavo leaves of white wove paper, and one side only of another (f. 31). Watermark 'A Cowan & Son / 1826'. The essay was first published in Ollier's Literary Miscellan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1826
Extent:
1 item

97. Ashley MS 1319

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Ashley MS 1319
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Letter from Alexander Pope to William Fortescue, concerning the illness of Fortescue's daughter, Mrs Spooner; [Dec. 1737]. The letter is endorsed 'X Mr Pope Decr. 1737'. Ashley Library Catalogue, iv, pp. 57-58. Octavo; ff. i+2. Alexander Pope, poet: William Fortescue, KC; Master of the Rolls: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Dec 1737]
Extent:
1 item

98. Ashley MS 1362

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Ashley MS 1362
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Poems by C. G. Rossetti (autograph title on f. 1); 27 April 1842-3 Dec. 1845. Fair copies, circa 1845-1847, in an older hand, stated by William Michael Rossetti to be that of Maria Francesca Rossetti, written in a notebook consisting of thirty two octavo leaves of ruled white wove paper. No wate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1842-3 Dec 1845
Extent:
1 item

99. Ashley MS 1364 (1)

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Ashley MS 1364 (1)
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C. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 17 June-13 Dec. 1856. The text is written on both sides of thirty eight leaves of ruled blue wove paper, and on one side only of two further leaves (ff. 21, 40). No watermark. There is an index on f. 40b. The principal revisions and additions to the text of the poems ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 item

100. Ashley MS 1364 (1)-(6)

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Ashley MS 1364 (1)-(6)
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Six Notebooks used by Christina Rossetti for the inscription of fair copies of her poems; 17 June 1856-15 Feb. 1859 and 23 March 1861-11 June 1866. The notebooks are part of a series of seventeen covering the years 1842-1866, of which the others are Ashley MS. 1362 (1842-1845), nine in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and one in the possession of Mrs Imogene Rossetti Dennis. The six comprised in Ashley MS. 1364 are all indexed, and contain extensive deletions and revisions made in pencil at v...
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Christina Georgina Rossetti, poet: Notebooks by Christina Georgina Rossetti: 1856-1859, 1861-1866.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856-1866
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