BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. 1) Autograph manuscript, in effect a draft, of her poem 'Lessons from the Gorse', signed 'EBB'; 24 March 1840. 2) Autograph revised manuscript of her poem 'On the Death of the Right Hon[oura]ble George Canning 1827', this title changed in pencil to 'The Statesman'...
GILL, Eric. Original calligraphy on thin paper decorated with pictures of men and women, birds and flowers, with text being the first seven verses of Ecclesiastes, beginning 'Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth ...'. Creation dates: Early 20th century
BRONTË, Charlotte. Autograph manuscript poem written in her miniscule hand, beginning 'I've been wandering in the greenwoods'. Bonhams, 20922, 10 April 2013, Lot 62. Creation dates: 14 Dec 1829
MORE, Hannah. Annotated Bible (Edinburgh: by Mark and Charles Kerr, 1789) presented to her friend Sir William Weller Pepys. Creation dates: Late 18th-Early 19th centuries
AUDEN, Wystan Hugh. Typescript of his poem 'James Honeyman' (containing text different from the published version); [1937]. GRAVES, Robert. Autograph signed revised manuscript of an early version, in effect a draft, of his poem 'Repair Shop', inscribed for William Copley; 1928. Bonhams, 20922, 10...
AUDEN, Wystan Hugh. DAY LEWIS, Cecil. Autograph revised manuscript of an impromptu verse in the album of a pupil at Larchfield Academy, beginning 'Listen, Norman Wright', signed 'W. H. Auden' and dated 8 November 1930; along with 2 'Rhymes for Norman Wright' by C. Day Lewis and signed by him. BIN...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 2013
Extent:
Digital images (part of 1 disc) and 9 photocopies (Binyon)
BECKETT, Samuel. Autograph drafts of his poem 'The Downs', signed and dated 'Samuel Beckett Paris 1981' (when given to Oxfam), but actually written earlier; [c 1938]. CLARE, John. Autograph manuscript signed of an impromptu poem, addressed 'To my friend F. Simpson Junr of Stamford'; 23 July 1827....
CAMPBELL, Thomas (1777-1844). Autograph manuscript of 2 poems: one beginning 'In deep submission to the will above', dated March 1813, along with a contemporary note 'Lines written by Thomas Campbell for the Tombstone erected to the Memory of Mrs Shute & her two Daughters drowned in the Wye ...
LAWRENCE, T. E. (Thomas Edward). 3 Autograph letters as follows: Signed 'TE Shaw' to an unnamed correspondent (but annotated in pencil 'To H.M. Tomlinson'), commenting on the latter's recently published World War I novel; 30 May 1930. Signed 'TE Lawrence' to E.M. Dowson, Director General of the ...