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121. Ashley MS 1399, B1399

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1399, B1399
Title:
'Poems (Privately Printed)': fragments of a copy of the third set of printed page proofs for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems, 1870, with autograph revision, corrections and addition; second half of Sept. 1869. The fragments comprise the title-page and author's note (pp. [i-iv]), and pp. 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17-25, 29-40, 45-50, 53-58 of the text, i.e. part of 'The Blessed Damozel', part of 'Love's Nocturn', most of 'The Burden of Nineveh', 'Ave', most of 'The Staff and Scrip', part of 'Sister ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
2 items

122. Ashley MS 1401

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1401
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Scope & Content:
Letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to W. M. Rossetti, 1869. ff. i+3, octavo William Michael Rossetti, author and art critic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter: Letter to William Michael Rossetti from Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1869.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

123. Ashley MS 1407

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1407
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Scope & Content:
'Love and Loss (Three Sonnets)' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1871?]. Fair copies, written on one side only of three octavo leaves of white laid paper. Watermark part of crowned shield. Signed 'Dante G. Rossetti' on f. 3. The text found in the MS. is identical except for one word in the second poe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1871?]
Extent:
1 item

124. Ashley MS 1407, 1408, 1409, 1420, A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3855, 3857-3861

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Ashley MS 1407, 1408, 1409, 1420, A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3855, 3857-3861
Title:
Ballads and Sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1871?]-1881. Autograph drafts and fair copies of poems included in, and considered for, Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. Although the poems were composed at various dates between 1869 and 1881, it seems probable that, with the exception of 1407-1409 and 1420, the MSS. were written in 1880-1881 when Rossetti was preparing Ballads and Sonnets, 1881. A3840, 3847, 3848, 3849, 3852, 3857, 3859, 3860 and 3861 may well have once formed part of the same note...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
[1871?]-1881
Extent:
11 items

125. Ashley MS 1408

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1408
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Scope & Content:
'The Trees of the Garden' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; [1875?]. Fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of white laid paper. Watermark '18[ ]'. Signed 'D G Rossetti'. The text found in the MS. differs slightly from the version printed on p. 251. Also included (ff. 2, 3) is a letter, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1875?]
Extent:
1 item

126. Ashley MS 1410 (1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1410 (1)
Title:
Scope & Content:
(1). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1871 (but the additional stanza for 'Sister Helen' (f. 12) is considered by J. C. Troxell, Rossetti's 'Sister Helen', 1939, to date from 1879 and 'The Sun's Shame II ' (ff. 17, 28b) is stated by W. M. Rossetti, The Works of D. G. Rossetti, 1911, and O. Doughty, A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

127. Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1410 (1)-(4)
Title:
Four Notebooks of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 1871-1881. The books contain many notes for, and drafts of, lines, couplets and stanzas of poems printed in Ballads and Sonnets, 1881, and Poems, 1881, but no complete poems, with the exception of a draft of 'The Lamp's Shrine' (book (1), ff. 26-27). In addition they contain many fragments of prose and poetry not used by Rossetti but often, for that reason, very revealing of his state of mind, notes of place and personal names for poems, ideas for pi...
Scope & Content:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter: Notebook by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1871-1881.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1881
Extent:
4 items

128. Ashley MS 1410 (2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1410 (2)
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Scope & Content:
(2). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1871-1879 (but 'True Woman III Her Heaven' (f. 18b) is stated by D. G. Rossetti in a letter to his mother dated 15 Sept. 1881, printed in D. G. Rossetti His Family-Letters, 1895, pp. 386-387, to have been recently composed). (a) Lines 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14 of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1879
Extent:
1 item

129. Ashley MS 1410 (3)

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Ashley MS 1410 (3)
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Scope & Content:
(3). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Last two stanzas of 'Soothsay'. ff. 14 and 14b, 12b;―(b) First two lines of stanzas 1 and 3 of 'Alas, so long'. f. 15;―(c) Two lines 'As much as in a hundred years she's dead Yet is today the day on which she died', possibly referring to the death o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1881
Extent:
1 item

130. Ashley MS 1410 (4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS 1410 (4)
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Scope & Content:
(4). D. G. Rossetti Notebooks. 1879-1881. (a) Notes for 'True Woman I and II'. ff. 43b, 44;―(b) Unused prose introduction to 'The House of Life'. f. 40b; ― (c) Notes for 'The Song-throe'. f. 39;―(d) Notes and drafts for lines 2-6 of 'John Keats'. ff. 37b-38b;―(e) First seven lines of 'Thomas Ch...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1881
Extent:
1 item