'Wild Wales'. by George Borrow; [1854-1861]. Autograph drafts of various portions of the work, together with extraneous material. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, pp. 46-47.
'Sir Truels's Daughters': a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1828-[1829?]. Autograph fair copy, with a few revisions, written on both sides of two conjoined quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark 'Thomas James / 1828'. The MS. is entitled as above in Borrow's hand. He ha...
'Sir Jonas and Sir Nielus': a ballad translated from the Danish by George Borrow; 1828-[1829?]. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written on both sides of two quarto leaves of white laid paper. Watermark '1828' and part of figure of Britannia. The MS. is entitled as above in Borrow's hand, an...
'My dainty Dame, my heart's delight' and 'The Cuckoo': two poems translated from the Welsh of Dafydd ab Gwilym by George Borrow. In 1854 Mrs Borrow wrote 'He will, I expect at Christmas, publish his other work, together with his poetry in all the European languages'. In The Romany Rye, 1857, the...
'A Remarkable prophecy Of an approaching War': a translation from the Danish by George Borrow of the poem by F. J. Schaldemose; 1830-[1857?]. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of one quarto leaf of white laid paper, and on one side only of another. The leaves are conjoined. Watermark 'T...
'Kragelill' and 'Allegast': two ballads translated from the Danish by George Borrow. For the dating of these MSS. see the description of 2396. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 61. As follows:― 1. 'Kragelill'; [before 1857?]. Autograph fair copy, written on both sides of one quarto leaf of white ...
'The Song Of The Tiger': a poem in Manx in the hand of George Borrow; [after 1855?]. Fair copy, written on both sides of one folio leaf of grey wove paper, and on one side only of another, conjoined, leaf. No watermark. It is not clear whether the poem is an original work by Borrow, or one colle...
Letter from the Rev. William Lisle Bowles to William Scrope of Castle Combe, chiefly concerned with Bowles' The Grave of the Last Saxon, 1822, and Letters to Lord Byron on a Question of Poetical Criticism, 1821, and a visit to Bowles by William Blackwood, founder of Blackwood's Magazine; 10 June...
Letter from Stopford A. Brooke to T. J. Wise, 19 Feb. 1888 includes: f. 175 Reverend Stopford Augustus Brooke, author: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from Rev. Stopford Augustus Brooke: 1888.
''The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim''s Point'': a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 1846. Autograph fair copy, heavily revised, of stanzas 14-26, written on both sides of two conjoined octavo leaves of white wove paper. No watermark. Stanza 15 has been added in the margin, and its position indicate...